Tapered assembly

Fig. II, 56, 6 is a simple distillation head when this is fitted into a flask with a ground glass socket, the assembly is virtually a distillation flask. The bottom cone is usually 19, 24 or 29 the side cone is generafly B19 but may be 24 the thermometer socket is 14. For many purposes, a thermometer is fitted into a one-hole rubber stopper of correct taper and then inserted into the 14 socket the area of rubber which is exposed to the action of the organic vapour is relatively so small that the amount of contamination thus introduced is negligible. If, however, all rubber stoppers must be absent because of the highly corrosive character of the vapour, a thermometer with a 14 cone is employed. It is important to have the thermometer of the same glass as the distillation head, otherwise difficulties may arise owing to the different expansion coefficients of the two kinds of glass.

Expander-compressor shafts are preferably designed to operate below the first lateral critical speed and torsional resonance. A flame-plated band of aluminum alloy or similarly suitable material is generally applied to the shaft in the area sensed by the vibration probes to preclude erroneous electrical runout readings. This technique has been used on hundreds of expanders, steam turbines, and other turbomachines with complete success. Unless integral with the shaft, expander wheels (disks) are often attached to the shaft on a special tapered profile, with dowel-type keys and keyways. The latter design attempts to avoid the stress concentrations occasionally associated with splines and conventional keyways. It also reduces the cost of manufacture. When used, wheels are sometimes secured to the tapered ends of the shaft by a common center stretch rod which is pre-stressed during assembly. This results in a constant preload on each wheel to ensure proper contact between wheels and shaft at the anticipated extremes of temperature and speed. 

Another wheel-to-shaft attachment uses a tapered fit (Figure 5-11, right portion). A center stretch rod constantly pulls each wheel onto the shaft. Should the wheel bore grow, the wheel remains centered and is drawn axially up the shaft taper. The tapered fit reduces galling risk during assembly and disassembly. 

Figure 5-19. Rotor assembly showing tapered shaft end.

Figure 6-32. The radlal-fit bolt fully assembled In the turbine flanges, showing the taper barrel, and the ollways that enable hydraulic pressure to force bolt and sleeve apart.

Hub bores are usually straight, although for some special applications taper bores are sometimes specified. For smaller diameters, bores are designed for clearance fits and a set screw is used over the key. The major advantage of a clearance fit is that hubs can be easily assembled and disassembled. For larger diameters, the bores are designed for interference fits without setscrews. For rapid-reversing applications, interference fits are required. 

Burdick and Jackson). All solutions were photolyzed to less than 5% conversion in a standard 3 ml capacity, 1-cm path length quartz cell. Samples were irradiated with a 450-Watt medium pressure, Hanovla mercury lamp focused through an appropriate band-pass filter (280 nm or 254 nm) onto the 1-cm quartz cell with the requisite solution. Test solutions could be purged with either helium or oxygen using a needle valve assembly attached to the tapered quartz cell neck. The loss of carbamate due to photolysis and the amounts of known photoproducts were determined quantitatively by GC using eicosane as an internal standard. The columns were 6 stainless steel containing Carbowax 20M on chromosorb G. 

Figure 7.10 Tapered macromonomers and their cylindrical polymerized assemblies...

Note Appropriate assembly and maintenance procedures must be used to assure that taper fit couplings have an interference fit. 

Appropriate assembly and maintenance procedures should be used to assire that taper fit couplings have an interference fit. Slip fits on cylindrical bores allow adjustment of the coupling axial position in the field without application of heat. 

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