Posted by
huariflange on Monday, November 30, 2009 2:24:00 AM
A blender
is a kitchen appliance used to mix ingredients or puree food. Blenders
are also used to prepare emulsions, such as mayonnaise, and cream
soups. Blenders are to be distinguished from lower-speed hand-powered
or electric mixers that are used for mixing applications. The term
typically refers to a stationary, upright electrical device, but
hand-held immersion blenders have become common in recent years.
Blenders are also used in laboratory applications.
Blender
isn't often thought of as the best tool for mechanical modeling. But
some have utilized its excellent modeling tools to produce just about
anything they can imagine. And a few have created some excellent
tutorials on how they did it.
This
tutorial covers the modeling of a flange. Being one not well versed in
the realm of flanges, I wasn't quite sure what to expect.
What is a flange? A flange is an external or internal rib, or rim (lip), for strength, as the flange
of an iron beam or I-beam (or a T-beam); or for a guide, as the flange
of a train wheel; or for attachment to another object, as the flange on
the end of a pipe, steam cylinder, etc, or on the lens mount of a
camera. A flange can be a plate or ring to form a rim at the end of a pipe when fastened to the pipe. A blind flange
is a round plate with all the proper boltholes but no center hold. This
flange is used to provide positive closer on the ends of pipes, valves
or equipment nozzles.-------wikipedia
A flange joint is a connection of pipes, where the connecting pieces have flanges by which the parts are bolted together."