Fluid handling – Processes – Cleaning – repairing – or assembling
Patent
1988-12-27
1990-08-21
Chambers, A. Michael
Fluid handling
Processes
Cleaning, repairing, or assembling
137614, 13761403, F16L 3728
Patent
active
049497456
ABSTRACT:
A connector (10) for use in a contaminated environment is provided. The connector includes first and second couplers (13, 14) which are coupled together to produce a fluid path (148) through the connector. The outer boundaries of the fluid path define a fluid path envelope. The surfaces (126, 128) which could be contaminated and which lie within the fluid path envelope are mated against one another and then captured between a pair of O-rings (46, 122). Parts of these surfaces, as well as other surfaces (130, 132) lying outside the fluid path envelope, are flushed with fluid (142, 144) as the connector is coupled to further reduce contamination. O-rings are also used to clean contamination from parts of some of the surfaces. As a result of these contamination control procedures, the connector can be assembled in a contaminated environment without introducing contamination into the fluid stream passing through the connector.
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Aeroquip's 1974 Catalog 240 at pp. 148-149, 159, and 165.
Air-Lock, Incorporated
Chambers A. Michael
Klee Maurice M.
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