Quick-connecting coupler for hoses, pipes and faucets

Details Quick-connecting coupler for hoses, pipes and faucets Quick-connecting coupler for hoses, pipes and faucets

2007-08-02

2011-12-06

Stodola, Daniel (Department: 3679)

Pipe joints or couplings

Particular interface

Annular socket

C285S033000, C285S305000, C285S326000, C285S406000

Reexamination Certificate

active

08070188

ABSTRACT:
A quick-connecting coupler for connecting hoses, connectors together or to a faucet or other water accessories that allows ease of use by anyone, including the elderly, the infirm, and those suffering from disabilities. The quick-connecting coupler has a first male-end and a second female end. The second female end is provided with of spaced-apart through-slots or opening for receiving therethrough a pair of forks or leg-sections of a yoke. Each of the pair of forks or leg-sections is provided with at least one interior-facing linear thread or rib for engaging with the male threads of the mating male end of another hose, or the like. The second female end of the coupler of the invention has a pair diametrically opposed cutouts through which portions of the linear threads or ribs are exposed, whereby these exposed portions of the threads or ribs may mate with corresponding portions of the male threads of the mating male end positioned in the second female end of the coupler for coupling the mating male end in the female end of the coupler.

REFERENCES:
patent: 1019000 (1912-02-01), Watson
patent: 3973791 (1976-08-01), Porta et al.
patent: 6050766 (2000-04-01), Kies et al.
patent: 7270350 (2007-09-01), Cronley

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