Pipe joints or couplings – With assembly means or feature – Handle or handwheel for rotary engagement
Patent
1996-03-07
1998-09-01
Arola, Dave W.
Pipe joints or couplings
With assembly means or feature
Handle or handwheel for rotary engagement
285 90, 285317, 285319, 285383, 285417, 285906, F16L 3500
Patent
active
057999848
ABSTRACT:
A connector for a rigid electrical conduit has an internal cylindrical socket sized to snugly receive the end of the conduit. A spring leaf detent is externally mounted on the connector body, with a free end of the leaf extending through a slot in the connector body side wall. Inserting a conduit into the socket deflects the spring leaf away from the socket axis, thereby generating a resilient stress in the leaf that enables the free end of the leaf to exert a gripping action on the conduit. The grip action can be removed by unloosening a screw that is used to mount the leaf spring on the connector body.
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ANR Manufacturing, Inc.
Arola Dave W.
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