Pipe joints or couplings – With assembly means or feature – Particular tool-engaging means or with tool
Patent
1993-11-03
1995-01-03
Reese, Randolph A.
Pipe joints or couplings
With assembly means or feature
Particular tool-engaging means or with tool
285319, 285921, F16L 3904
Patent
active
053780256
ABSTRACT:
A release member for a quick-type connector includes an outer sleeve concentrically disposed about an inner sleeve and integrally joined to the inner sleeve at one end. A plurality of circumferentially spaced fingers are formed on the inner sleeve and extend axially from an opposite end of the inner sleeve. Radially outward extending projections are formed on the inner sleeve and engage an inward extending flange on a female connector part to retain the release member in the open end of a bore in the female connector part, with the outer sleeve slidably disposed over the tubular end portion of the female connector part. Engaging surfaces formed between the fingers on the inner sleeve engage deflectable legs on a retainer mounted in the bore of the female connector part when the release member is forcibly urged into the bore in the female connector part to deflect the legs radially outward so as to permit separation of a radially expanded flange on a male conduit from the female connector part.
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Chun Shackelford Heather
ITT Corporation
Lewis J. Gordon
Reese Randolph A.
Seitter Robert P.
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