Abstract:
This invention relates to stands for high pressure presses. Such presses are often of a type including a pair of yokes, separated by a pair of uprights and surrounded by a girdle built up from prestressed steel strip. In order to reduce the piece weight and increase the strength of such presses, it is now proposed to build up the yokes, and preferably also the uprights, from sections arranged in face to face relationship. Each section is similar in shape to its fellows and the sections may be bolted together in closely packed or spaced face to face relationship.
Abstract:
AN IMPROVED HOUSING FOR A HIGH PRESSURE CHAMBER IS DESCRIBED. THE PRIMARY RESISTANCE TO RADIAL PRESSURES DEVELOPED IN THE HIGH PRESSURE CHAMBER IS PROVIDED BY A HOUSING WHICH IS SPLIT INTO A NUMBER OF SEPARATE PIECES HAVING GAPS BETWEEN, THE GAPS BEING INCLUDED IN ONE OR
MORE CLOSED SPACES FILLED WITH PRESSURE SUPPORTING MATERIAL, I.E. MATERIAL WHICH ACTS AS A LIQUID AT HIGH PRESSURE, AND WHICH IS PRESSURIZED AS THE PRESSURE IN THE HIGH PRESSURE CHAMBER IS INCREASED.
Abstract:
A HIGH-PRESSURE APPARATUS, CONSISTING OF A HIGH-PRESSURE CHAMBER AND A CONTAINER WHICH CONTAINS THE HIGHPRESSURE CHAMBER, THE HIGH-PRESSURE CHAMBER BEING BOUNDED BY TWO PRESSURE GENERATING MEANS ACTING AGAINST EACH OTHER, AS WELL AS OF A BODY COMPOSED OF SEPARATE PARTS AND HAVING A SUBSTANTIALLY CONVEX OUTSIDE SURFACE, AND A CENTRAL CAVITY, THE SAID BODY SURROUNDING THE HIGHPRESSURE CHAMBER, CHARACTERISED IN THAT THE COMPOSITE BODY IS SURROUNDED BY AT LEAST TWO HOLLOW BODIES WHICH ARE INWARDLY BOUNDED BY A SURFACE THAT CONFORMS TO THE OUTSIDE SURFACE OF THE COMPOSITE BODY, AND THAT THE HOL-
LOW BODIES ARE ADAPTED TO BE FILLED WITH A FLUID WHICH CAN BE BROUGHT UNDER PRESSURE.