Articulate conduit connector

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1975-11-24

1977-08-09

Callaghan, Thomas F.

Pipe joints or couplings

With assembly means or feature

285 93, 285184, 285261, 285322, 285DIG13, F16L 2706

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040406504

ABSTRACT:
Apparatus for joining two conduits in an articulated relationship comprising: a male member attached to one of the conduits and having a radially enlarged portion thereon; a female member attached to the other of said conduits and into which the male member may be inserted; a gripping assembly carried by the female member and movable from a radially expanded position, in which the male member may be freely inserted and removed from the female member, to a radially contracted position gripping the enlarged portion of the male member, preventing its removal and locking it in a fixed articulated relationship with the female member; and an actuating assembly, carried by the female member, engageable with the gripping assembly and being operable by a force applied externally of the apparatus for moving the gripping assembly between its expanded and contracted positions.

REFERENCES:
patent: 994230 (1911-06-01), Yancey
patent: 2001244 (1935-05-01), Ezell
patent: 2535599 (1950-12-01), Preston
patent: 3251611 (1966-05-01), Haeber et al.
patent: 3754780 (1973-08-01), Pogonowski
patent: 3874706 (1975-04-01), Arnold

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