Pipe joints or couplings – Essential catch – Resilient ring
Reexamination Certificate
2006-08-29
2006-08-29
Hewitt, James M. (Department: 3679)
Pipe joints or couplings
Essential catch
Resilient ring
C285S305000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07097211
ABSTRACT:
A system for coupling a plurality of pipes end-to-end in a locked configuration to thereby form an enclosed conduit comprising a first pipe having a receiving end and an insertion end, a first annular ring track formed on an inner surface of the receiving end; a second pipe, the second pipe having an insertion end and a receiving end, an opposing annular ring track formed on an outer surface of the insertion end; the receiving end of the first pipe sized to tightly receive the insertion end of the second pipe; an anti-reversing locking ring having a partial conic profile, the ring having a leading edge formed on a larger diameter opening of the ring, the ring having a trailing edge formed on a smaller diameter opening of the ring; and the ring positioned in the first ring track of the first pipe with the leading edge of the ring closer to the receiving end than the insertion end, such that when the insertion end of the second pipe is inserted into the receiving end of the first pipe, the trailing end of the ring drops into the opposing ring track of the second pipe to thereby couple the first and the second pipes in the locked configuration.
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Adams and Reese LLP
Hewitt James M.
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