Fluid handling – With repair – tapping – assembly – or disassembly means – Tapping a pipe – keg – or apertured tank under pressure
Patent
1995-03-10
1997-04-15
Walton, George L.
Fluid handling
With repair, tapping, assembly, or disassembly means
Tapping a pipe, keg, or apertured tank under pressure
30 96, 83745, 222 91, F16K 4300, F16L 4106, B23B 4108
Patent
active
056200200
ABSTRACT:
A plumbing device comprises a clamp 10 which is clamped around a "live" pipe 12 and which threadedly receives a cutter/valve 16 having cutter portions 30 and a valved passage 32. The cutter/valve 16 is screwed home to remove a section of pipe and to align the valved passage with the pipe. The device may then function as a stop-cock.
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