Fluid handling – Systems – Flow path with serial valves and/or closures
Patent
1994-10-24
1996-01-09
Schwadron, Martin P.
Fluid handling
Systems
Flow path with serial valves and/or closures
285307, F16L 3728
Patent
active
054820839
ABSTRACT:
A quick connect coupling for joining opposing ends of a fluid flow line includes a sleeve member and a body member sized to be received in the open engagement end of the sleeve member. The sleeve member has resilient, laterally displaceable fingers joined at one end and tapering inwardly toward the axis in cantilever fashion to free ends. Upon insertion of the body member in the sleeve member, the body member contacts the fingers and urges the cantilevered portions including the free ends outwardly. Upon complete insertion, the free ends snap inwardly to engage shoulders of the body member. The body member has a series of camming faces adjacent each shoulder. The sleeve is rotatable about the body member to displace the free ends of the fingers outwardly and to align such fingers with portions of the body member away from such shoulders to thereby release the body member from the sleeve member.
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Aeroquip Corporation
Lee Kevin L.
Schwadron Martin P.
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