Pipe joints or couplings – With fluid pressure seal – Flexible lip
Reexamination Certificate
2008-06-24
2008-06-24
Hewitt, James M (Department: 3679)
Pipe joints or couplings
With fluid pressure seal
Flexible lip
C285S365000, C285S367000, C285S373000, C285S420000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07390026
ABSTRACT:
A housing type joint including: a housing formed by arranging at least three arcuate segments in a circumferential direction with gaps; an elastic ring arranged in the housing for hermetically sealing end portions of a pair of pipes; a fastening band arranged so as to surround an outside surface of the housing and having loop portion at both ends thereof; and a fastening unit that makes the loop portions at both ends of the fastening band closer to each other, in order to make the arcuate segments closer to each other or in contact with each other; wherein the elastic ring has engagement projections at positions located in a circumferential direction thereof with gaps, correspondingly to the respective arcuate segments, each engagement projection extending outward in a radial direction of the elastic ring; each arcuate segment has a positioning hole into which each engagement projection is inserted; and a fastening-band guiding part is provided on an outside surface of each arcuate segment for guiding the fastening band.
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Hewitt James M
Jacobson & Holman PLLC
The Victaulic Co., of Japan, Ltd
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