Fluid handling – Processes – Cleaning – repairing – or assembling
Patent
1993-06-30
1994-03-08
Walton, George L.
Fluid handling
Processes
Cleaning, repairing, or assembling
81423, 137318, 222 5, 222 835, 222 89, F16L 4104, F16L, B25B 722
Patent
active
052919145
ABSTRACT:
A fluid recovery tool for forming an opening in a pipe, tube, or other fluid-carrying conduit includes a pair of pliers having two handle portions pivotally attached and moveable with respect to each other. Each handle portion of the pliers terminates in a jaw portion, and the jaw portions are located in opposed moveable relation to one another. A piercing valve assembly is removably mounted to the pair of pliers for penetrating the pipe. The piercing valve assembly includes a pair of housing members pivotally attached to each other. One of the pair of housing members receives one of the jaw portions and is removably mounted thereto, while the other of the pair of housing members receives the other of the jaw portions and is removably mounted thereto. The piercing valve assembly further includes a piercing element mounted in the upper housing member for piercing the pipe, and a conduit for fluidly connecting the piercing element with a remote storage container or vessel. The lower housing member is designed to receive and locate the pipe such that the handle portions of the pliers can be manually manipulated together to bring the housing members together and force the piercing member through the wall of the pipe.
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Bares Jack A.
Medved Gary E.
Calfee Halter & Griswold
Milbar Corporation
Walton George L.
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