Pipe joints or couplings – Flexible joint – rigid members
Patent
1997-11-26
2000-01-18
Knight, Anthony
Pipe joints or couplings
Flexible joint, rigid members
285415, F16L 2710
Patent
active
060151706
ABSTRACT:
A coupling assembly for connecting components in a piping system comprising a conduit, an annular ring and a gland. The gland comprises a body and a flange portion extending radially therefrom. A circumferential groove is formed along an inner surface of the body, and the flange portion includes a plurality of spaced bores for enabling attachment of the gland to a mating component in the piping system. The gland preferably comprises two arcuate segments, each segment having bores formed in spaced apart ends thereof to enable the segments to be attached to one another. The annular ring includes a shoulder and an arcuate surface configured to be received in the cooperatively configured groove formed in the gland. The configuration of the ring and the groove enable axial rotation and angular deflection of the gland.
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patent: 5335946 (1994-08-01), Dent et al.
2-pg. Product brochure for Uni-Flange.RTM. retainer gland, The Ford Meter Box Co., Inc., Wabash, IN.
2-pg. Product brochure for Flex-Tend.RTM. flexible expansion joint, EBBA Iron Sales, Inc., Eastland, TX.
2-pg. Product brochure for Flex 900 ball joint, EBBA Iron Sales, Inc., Eastland, TX.
1-pg. Photocopy showing Anchor or Swivel Coupling and Hydrant or Anchor Tee .
Knight Anthony
Lanquist, Jr. Edward D.
Pickard Alison K.
Thomas Laura K.
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