Pipe joints or couplings – Essential catch – With manipulator
Reexamination Certificate
2006-12-12
2006-12-12
Stodola, Daniel P. (Department: 3679)
Pipe joints or couplings
Essential catch
With manipulator
C285S039000, C285S319000, C285S321000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07147253
ABSTRACT:
A quick-connect coupling which includes a locking ring (20) disposed in an coupling body to co-operate with a catch surface on a tube fitted into the coupling. The ring is elastically deformable to go between an unlocking configuration and a locking configuration, in which at least one locking zone (30, 32) co-operates with the catch surface. To this end, the ring is provided with at least one unlocking bridge (22, 24) that protrudes through a slot in the body of the coupling. The ring is constituted by a strip that is plastically deformed to have at least the locking zone and the bridge. The ring forms a closed loop and has two ends (20A,20B) which overlap, and which are suitable for sliding one over the other while the ring is being elastically deformed.
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Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary 2001, Merriam-Webster Inc., Tenth Edition, p. 794.
Detable Pascal
Prevot Fabrice
Rigollet Nicola
Cabinet Beau De Lomenie
Etablissements Caillau
MacArthur Victor
Stodola Daniel P.
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