Pipe joints or couplings – With means blocking release of holding means – Auxiliary latch
Patent
1982-08-09
1984-05-29
Scanlan, Jr., Richard J.
Pipe joints or couplings
With means blocking release of holding means
Auxiliary latch
285315, 285DIG22, F16J 1500, F16L 3718
Patent
active
044510691
ABSTRACT:
A quick connect fluid coupling having a male member and a female member with radially resilient latch fingers for engaging the male coupling member. A locking sleeve having a continuous ring portion and a plurality of circumferentially spaced radially resilient fingers is movable from a position in which the ring portion surrounds the fingers on the female member to radially confine the same, and a release position in which the ring portion is spaced axially from the free ends of the fingers on the female member. Latch means are provided for releasably latching the locking sleeve in its locking position and in its release position.
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patent: 4275907 (1981-06-01), Hunt
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Pillote Vernon J.
Scanlan, Jr. Richard J.
Smith Investment Company
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