Metal working – Method of mechanical manufacture – Gas and water specific plumbing component making
Patent
1996-12-30
1999-04-06
Arola, Dave W.
Metal working
Method of mechanical manufacture
Gas and water specific plumbing component making
29516, 29510, 285382, 2853822, B21D 5300
Patent
active
058902872
ABSTRACT:
There are provided a connection structure and process for connecting a eye-joint and a slender metal pipe, which is enabled by making the welding operation completely unnecessary to eliminate the working troubles and a fear of cracking or breakage, as might otherwise be caused by deteriorations in the mechanical properties in the vicinity of the connection end portion, which can use the eye-joint body and the metal pipe, as plated with a corrosion-resistance substance or coated with a resin in advance, to improve the productivity drastically thereby to ensure the connection with neither axial nor circumferential movement, and which can connect a metal pipe, if necessary, as having a diameter larger than the width of the eye-joint body. The connection structure comprises: an eye-joint body having an annular groove in its head and two side through holes leading to the annular groove to form parallel flat seat surfaces on the outer circumferences off the through holes, and including a branch pipe protruded integrally from the eye-joint body and having a stepped fitting hole formed in the circumferential side and leading to the annular groove; and a slender metal pipe adapted to have its connection end portion fitted in the fitting hole of the branch pipe of the eye-joint body. An elastic seal ring member is fitted either in the inner circumference of the fitting hole or on the outer circumference of the connection end portion of the metal pipe. The vicinity of the end portion of the branch pipe is caulked together with the connection end portion, after the connection end portion is inserted into the pipe, thereby to effect the connection.
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Arola Dave W.
Budzyn Ludomir A.
Casella Anthony J.
Hespos Gerald E.
Usui Kokusai Sangyo Kaisha Limited
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