Gas socket

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Drawing: The coupling of a gas plug to a gas socket
Drawing: new rectangular gas socket with cover plate, coupling

A gas outlet , a gas connection fitting, with a gas appliance without a tool at a gas line can be connected.

Gas sockets have a valve that is closed without a gas plug connected. When a gas plug is connected with the turning handle the chicks is rotated in the gas outlet by 90 ° up to the stop, the valve is opened. The operating status can be read from the outside through a window in the gas socket. Green stands for open. Red stands for closed.

Some gas sockets have a thermally triggered shut-off device , the solder of which melts in a fire and interrupts the gas flow. They are also available with an integrated gas flow monitor , which is used if the house installation did not have one before.

Gas socket is a generic term for all flush and surface sockets for gas. Flush-mounted sockets are plug-in gas valves. Surface sockets are plug-in gas taps. Newer gas sockets are modeled after electrical sockets and optically fit in well with the installation. With these gas sockets, after the gas plug has been placed on the gas socket, the cover plate is pushed aside with a push handle. The gas plug can then be pushed into the gas socket.

Gas sockets are used in house installations as well as where gases are taken from tanks, e.g. B. Oxygen or nitrous oxide in clinics.

Anyone can connect or disconnect a gas plug to a suitable gas socket if the gas system in question, as far as it is recognizable to him, is in a proper condition.

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