Pipe joints or couplings – With assembly means or feature – With holding means functioning only during transportation...
Patent
1992-05-04
1993-07-20
Arola, Dave W.
Pipe joints or couplings
With assembly means or feature
With holding means functioning only during transportation...
285256, 285259, 285252, F16L 33207
Patent
active
052287211
ABSTRACT:
A crimp ring fitting for connection to plastic or composite piping, the fitting including a spigot having one or more circumferentially extending ribs for engagement with the inner surface of the piping, a shoulder from which the spigot extends, a resilient sleeve extending coaxially with and spaced apart from the spigot, the sleeve terminating at one end in an inwardly directed flange adjacent the shoulder for retaining the sleeve about the spigot and at the other end in an outwardly directed flange, and a crimp ring slidably mounted over the sleeve for crimpable attachement of the fitting to the pipe, in use the outwardly directed flange preventing axial movement of the crimp ring along the pipe.
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Podnar Robert B.
Whittle Alan J.
Arola Dave W.
Chun Heather
James Hardie Plumbing & Pipelines Pty. Limited
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