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Details
Inventors: Jacobellis, A. A.; Zahid, Abduz;
Assignee: VSI Corporation (Pasadena, CA)
Primary Examiner: Bryant, III; James E.
Assistant Examiner:
Attorney, Agent or Firm: Colvin; Arthur B.

The present invention is directed to an accumulator device and more particularly to an accumulator device having a spherical reservoir chamber which is preferably formed by hydraulic distension of a shell. A casing, bladder, and mounting fixture are combined with the shell by a metal forming operation to thus provide an efficient accumulator with a minimum of forming operations.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION The embodiments of the invention in which an exclusive property or privilege is claimed are defined as follows: 1.
As a new article of manufacture a low cost light weight hydraulic accumulator device comprising a unitary metallic shell defining a pressure vessel, said shell including a spherical reservoir, a generally cylindrical neck portion extending from said reservoir, said neck portion including a radially outwardly extending flange, a rim extending downwardly from said flange in the direction of the axis of said neck portion, a stop shoulder extending radially from said rim portion, a rigid hollow generally cylindrical casing extending into said reservoir, said casing including throughgoing perforations, a radially directed flange on said casing having an upper surface engaging said stop shoulder and a lower surface, a mounting fixture including an oil port supported in said neck portion, said fixture having a downwardly facing base portion and an upper surface portion engaging said lower surface of said flange of said casing, inturned portions of said neck portion underlapping said base portion of said fixture to clampingly support said fixture and the flange of said casing between said stop shoulder and inturned portions, and a resilient distensable generally cylindrical elastomeric bladder member disposed over said casing and dividing said reservoir into two chambers, said bladder member having a thickened rim portion defining a mouth, said bladder including portions disposed in an annular space defined between said neck and said casing, said thickened rim portion being clamped in an axially compressed condition between said flange of said neck and said upper surface of said flange of said casing to thereby define a seal between said casing and said vessel at said neck portion.
2.
An accumulator in accordance with claim 1 wherein an annular gasket member is interposed between the upper surface of said fixture and said lower surface of said flange of said casing, said gasket being compressed to define an annular seal area surrounding said oil port by said inturned portions


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