The present invention relates to an oil hydraulic pump, especially to an engine-driven oil pump that drives the power-driven set such as an electric hydraulic cutter.
Oil hydraulic devices (e.g. hydraulic cutter and hydraulic crimper) are commonly used in fields of processing hard materials such as steel or other metals. The power of such devices is provided by an oil hydraulic pump specifically designed to drive the hydraulic device of a particular kind, and the oil hydraulic pump comprises a motor and a control valve. After the motor is electrified, it can be used to drive the hydraulic oil inside the control valve, pushing the hydraulic oil into the hydraulic device or pulling the hydraulic oil out from the hydraulic device and back into the control valve. By pushing the hydraulic oil back and forth, a piston inside the hydraulic device is moved and can therefore drive the hydraulic device to do work such as cutting or crimping.
For example, when the hydraulic device is a hydraulic cutter, after the motor is electrified, the user may manually open a gate inside the control valve, so the hydraulic oil inside the control valve can flow from the control valve into the hydraulic device. By the force of the motor, the hydraulic oil may move between the control valve and the hydraulic cutter, so the piston in the hydraulic cutter is moved by the movement of the hydraulic oil. Hence, the hydraulic cutter is driven to cut objects such as cables. The details of the operating method for the hydraulic cutter (especially regarding the piston) are conventional and need no repeat.
However, the conventional hydraulic devices have the following two defects.
First, because the motor requires electricity, the suitable sites of installing the hydraulic device are critically restricted. Locations such as mountains or seaside might not be suitable if there is no nearby power supply.
Second, although the hydraulic device is ready for use after the motor is electrified, one of the features of the hydraulic device is that every single movement of the piston inside the hydraulic device depends on the flowing of the hydraulic oil. In other words, the user needs to stand by the machine and manually switch the path of the oil to operate the piston, so as to operate the cutter. Furthermore, most of the objects to be cut, such as the aforementioned cables and steels, cannot be cut through at once due to the thickness and the hardness of said materials, so the user has to manually operate the hydraulic device for quite a while to control the switch of the oil path, and this may cause the inefficiency on manpower.
To overcome the shortcomings, the present invention provides an engine-driven oil pump to mitigate or obviate the aforementioned problems.
The main objective of the present invention is to provide an engine-driven oil pump that replaces the motor with an engine that can provide electricity independently, so the present invention can be used in places regardless of the power supply restrictions.
The engine-driven oil pump has an engine, a pump unit, an oil diverting device, a manual unit housing, and a remote control unit. The pump unit connects to the engine and comprises an oil tank and an oil pumping device. The oil tank has an oil inlet channel and an oil outlet channel. The oil inlet channel is mounted in the oil tank. The oil outlet channel is connected to the oil tank. The oil diverting device connects to and communicates with the oil outlet and comprises a diverting passage. A tube inlet, a manual diverting opening, and a remote diverting opening are formed on the diverting passage and mutually communicate with one another. The tank inlet further connects to and communicates with the oil outlet channel. The oil diverting device selectively closes the manual diverting opening. The oil diverting device selectively closes the remote diverting opening.
The manual control unit is connected to the manual diverting opening and the oil inlet channel. The manual control unit comprises a manual unit housing and a manual oil regulator. Two manual unit outlets are formed on the manual unit housing, a first manual unit channel and a second manual unit channel are formed in the manual unit housing, and the first manual unit channel and the second manual unit channel communicates with the two manual unit outlets respectively. A third manual unit channel is formed in the manual unit housing, and the third manual unit channel communicates with the manual diverting opening. A bore is formed in the manual unit housing, and the bore communicates with the first manual unit channel, the second manual unit channel, and the third manual unit channel. The manual oil regulator is mounted in the bore, and is capable of making the manual diverting opening communicate with any one of the two manual unit outlets.
The remote control unit is connected to the remote diverting opening and the oil inlet channel, and the remote control unit comprises a remote unit housing, an electromagnetic valve, a power supply, and an operating device. Two remote unit outlets are formed on the remote unit housing, a remote unit channel is formed in the remote unit housing, and the remote unit channel communicates with the remote diverting opening and the two remote unit outlets. An inside of the electromagnetic valve communicates with the remote unit channel, and the electromagnetic valve is capable of making the remote diverting opening communicate with any one of the two remote unit outlets. The power supply is electrically connected to the electromagnetic valve. The operating device is signalingly connected to the electromagnetic valve.
Further, two manual pressure adjusting valves are mounted on the manual control unit, and the two manual pressure adjusting valves communicate with the two manual unit outlets respectively. Two remote pressure adjusting valves are mounted on the remote control unit, and the two remote pressure adjusting valves communicate with the two remote unit outlets respectively.
Given the forgoing structure of the engine-driven oil pump, the present invention uses the engine as the power supply, and therefore outside power supply is not required. Instead, the present invention may power up the engine by burning fossil fuels, so it is capable of operating in places where the electricity supply is difficult to acquire.
Besides, the present invention also comprises the electromagnetic valve which can be used to control the oil path, and the user may remotely control the electromagnetic valve. As a result, the user does not need to manually control the oil path during the operating process, which means that the user is allowed to leave the spot to do over work during the operating process, and can remotely control the operation of the present invention. Therefore the present invention is more efficient on manpower than the conventional method of operating the hydraulic device.
Other objectives, advantages and novel features of the invention will become more apparent from the following detailed description when taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings.
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The oil pumping device 22 is mounted in the oil tank 21, and the oil pumping device 22 can pump the hydraulic oil from the oil tank 21 into the oil outlet channel 212. The oil pressure gauge 23 is connected to and communicating with the oil outlet channel 212. In the present embodiment, the oil pressure gauge 23 is disposed on a top of the oil tank 21. The oil pressure gauge 23 is capable of detecting the oil pressure of the hydraulic oil passing through the oil outlet channel 212.
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The diverting passage 31 has a tube inlet 311, a manual diverting opening 312, and a remote diverting opening 313. The tube inlet 311, the manual diverting opening 312, and the remote diverting opening 313 mutually communicate with one another. Furthermore, the tube inlet 311 connects to and communicates with the oil outlet channel 212. In a preferred embodiment, the oil outlet channel 212 is connected to a valve and the valve is connected to the tube inlet 311. The manual diverting valve 32 and the remote diverting valve 33 are respectively adjacent to the manual diverting opening 312 and the remote diverting opening 313. The manual diverting valve 32 can selectively open or close the manual diverting opening 312. The remote diverting valve 33 can selectively open or close the remote diverting opening 313.
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On the other hand, the manual diverting valve 32 and the remote diverting valve 33 are respectively mounted on the manual control unit 40 and the remote control unit 50. But the location and the disposition of the diverting passage 31 are not limited thereto; in other embodiments, the diverting tube 31 can be formed outside the manual control unit 40 and the remote control unit 50 as an independent tube.
Besides, in another embodiment, the oil diverting device 30 can divert the hydraulic oil by means other than the manual diverting valve 32 and the remote diverting valve 33. For example, the diverting passage can be a Y-shaped channel, and a valve is mounted at the middle of the Y-shaped channel to determine whether the inlet of the diverting passage communicates with the manual diverting opening or the remote diverting opening.
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The manual diverting valve 32 further comprises a diverting handle 321, an adjusting shaft 322, and a bung 323. The diverting handle 321 is rotatably mounted on the manual unit housing 41 and extends into the third manual unit channel 431 which is also formed in the manual unit housing 41.
The adjusting shaft 322 is mounted in the third manual unit channel 431 and is connected to the diverting handle 321. The bung 323 is mounted in the third manual unit channel 431 and is connected to the adjusting shaft 322. By rotating the diverting handle 321, the user may move the adjusting shaft 322 inside the third manual unit channel 431 and selectively close the manual diverting opening 312 by the bung 323. In other words, after the bung 323 has closed the manual diverting opening 312, the hydraulic oil cannot flow from the oil diverting device 30 to each one of the two manual unit outlets 42 through the third manual unit channel 431, he bore 434, the first manual unit channel 433, and the second manual unit channel 432.
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Specifically, the adjusting handle 441 is a three-stage rod. When the user pushes the adjusting handle 441 into the deepest end of the manual unit housing 41, the pull rod 442 will also be pushed into the deepest part of the manual unit housing 41. Then, after the hydraulic oil flows into the third manual unit channel 431 through the manual diverting opening 312, the hydraulic oil flows into the bore 434, and then the hydraulic oil flows into the first manual unit channel 433 and the second manual unit channel 432. Finally, the hydraulic oil will then leave the manual unit housing 41 from one of the two manual unit outlets 42.
If the user pulls the adjusting handle 441 to the other end of the manual unit housing 41, thereby moving the pulled rod 442 with it, the hydraulic oil will leave the manual unit housing 41 from the other manual unit outlet 42.
If the user pulls the adjusting handle 441 to a place between the aforementioned two ends, after the hydraulic oil flows into the third manual unit channel 431 from the manual diverting opening 312, the hydraulic oil will flow back into the oil tank 21 through the oil inlet channel 211 without entering the bore 434 and any one of the two manual unit outlets 42. The switching method of the manual oil regulator 44 for the oil path is conventional, so the details need not be specifically stated.
The two manual pressure adjusting valves 45 are mounted on the manual unit housing 41. To be specific, one of the manual pressure adjusting valves 45 is connected to and communicates with one of the manual unit outlets 42 via the second manual unit channel 432. When the oil pressure of the hydraulic oil passing by is too high, it can press and move an adjusting spring 451 that is mounted in the manual pressure adjusting valve 45, so the hydraulic oil will flow into the manual pressure adjusting valve 45, and finally move back into the oil tank 21. Therefore, the manual pressure adjusting valves 45 can control the oil pressure inside the manual unit housing 41, preventing the oil pressure from getting too high.
In the present invention, the term “manual” is defined as: the process of switching the path of the hydraulic oil to either one of the two manual unit outlets 42 is done by the user standing adjacent to the present invention and manually operating the present invention. Specifically, in the present invention, manually operating refers to manually pulling the adjusting handle 441.
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Specifically, after the hydraulic oil enters the remote control unit 50 through the remote diverting opening 313, the hydraulic oil can move back into the oil tank 21 through the oil inlet channel 211. In the present embodiment, the remote control unit 50 and the manual control unit 40 jointly communicate with the oil inlet channel 211. In other words, because the remote control unit 50 is disposed on top of the manual control unit 40, when the hydraulic oil is moving back into the oil tank 21 from the remote control unit 50, the hydraulic oil will enter the manual control unit 40 before it flows back to the oil tank 21. But the oil path is not limited thereto.
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The two remote unit outlets 52 are formed on the remote unit housing 51. The remote unit channel 53 is formed in the remote unit housing 51. The remote unit channel 53 communicates with the two remote unit outlets 52, and also communicates with the remote diverting opening 313. To be specific, the remote unit channel 53 communicates with one of the two remote unit outlets 52 via an inlet communicating hole 511, the electromagnetic valve 54, and one of two pump communicating holes 513. The remote unit channel 53 communicates with the other remote unit outlet 52 via the inlet communicating hole 511, the electromagnetic valve 54, and the other pump communicating hole 513.
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The diverting handle 331 is rotatably mounted on the remote unit housing 51 and communicates with the remote unit channel 53. The adjusting shaft 332 is mounted in the remote unit channel 53 and is connected to the diverting handle 331. The bung 333 is mounted in the remote unit channel 53 and is connected to the adjusting shaft 332. By rotating the diverting handle 331, the user may move the adjusting shaft 332 inside the remote unit channel 53 and selectively close the remote diverting opening 313 by the bung 333. In other words, after the bung 333 has closed the remote diverting opening 313, the hydraulic oil cannot flow from the oil diverting device 30 to each one of the two remote unit outlets 52 through the remote unit channel 53.
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Besides, similar to the manual oil regulator 44, the electromagnetic valve 54 is a three-stage device. When the adjusting shaft moves inside the electromagnetic valve 54, it can switch the path of the hydraulic oil, which controls the outlet of the hydraulic oil to be the outlet communicating hole 512 or any one of the two pump communicating holes 513, as shown in
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When the oil pressure of the hydraulic oil passing by is too high, the two remote pressure adjusting valves 57 can press and move an adjusting spring 571 that is mounted in the remote pressure adjusting valve 57, so the hydraulic oil will flow into the remote pressure adjusting valve 57, and finally moves back into the oil tank 21. Therefore, the remote pressure adjusting valves 57 can control the oil pressure inside the remote unit housing 51, preventing the oil pressure from getting too high.
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The operating process and the advantages of the present invention are shown below.
When in use, an oil hydraulic device (not shown in figures), for example a hydraulic cutter or a hydraulic crimper, will be used along with the present invention. The hydraulic device has two connecting parts which are used to connect with the two manual unit outlets 42 of the manual control unit 40 or the two remote unit outlets 52 of the remote control unit 50. Specifically, the user may connect the hydraulic device to the manual control unit 40 or the remote control unit 50 depending on the requirements.
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The advantages of the present invention include:
First, with the powering of the engine 10, the present invention has an independent power supply. Therefore the present invention can be used at places such as the mountains or the seaside, where the power supply is difficult to acquire. So the present invention has a wider availability.
Second, with the remote control unit 50 connected to the hydraulic device, the user is not required to stay along the present invention to switch the oil path, but can leave the present invention and do other work while the present invention is operating, because the user can control the oil path by remotely controlling the electromagnetic valve 54 with the operating device 56. Therefore the present invention is efficient regarding the manpower.
Third, with the manual control unit 40, the user then has a backup plan when the remote control unit 50 malfunctions. The connection with the hydraulic device can be easily changed between the remote control unit 50 and the manual control unit 40. So when the remote control unit 50 is not working, the user may conveniently change the connecting unit and manually operate the present invention.
Even though numerous characteristics and advantages of the present invention have been set forth in the foregoing description, together with details of the structure and features of the invention, the disclosure is illustrative only. Changes may be made in the details, especially in matters of shape, size, and arrangement of parts within the principles of the invention to the full extent indicated by the broad general meaning of the terms in which the appended claims are expressed.
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