Joints and connections – Interfitted members – Clamped members
Patent
1988-05-20
1989-07-18
Kundrat, Andrew V.
Joints and connections
Interfitted members
Clamped members
403341, 403290, 241223, F16B 214
Patent
active
048489573
ABSTRACT:
A coupling comprising a tube made of plastic composite material to be used as a structural member and having an end portion formed with a plurality of acute cutouts, a fitting having a small-diameter front end portion and a bell-shaped tapering rear portion, and a bell-shaped sleeve having an inner wall surface of a shape corresponding to that of the tapering portion of the fitting. The end portion of the plastic tube is held between the fitting inserted into the end portion and the sleeve mounted on the outer periphery of the taper fitting, and a nut threadedly engaged with external threads of the fitting is tightened to assemble the fitting, the plastic tube and the sleeve as a unit.
REFERENCES:
patent: 990599 (1911-04-01), Sandell
patent: 3725981 (1973-04-01), Pinckney
patent: 4127344 (1978-11-01), Kwiatkowski
patent: 4373832 (1983-02-01), Monteillet
Jamco Corporation
Kundrat Andrew V.
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