Pipe joints or couplings – With assembly means or feature – Guide and support
Patent
1979-05-15
1981-11-03
Arola, Dave W.
Pipe joints or couplings
With assembly means or feature
Guide and support
285 39, 285261, 285321, F16L 3500
Patent
active
042982197
ABSTRACT:
A quick-coupling ball-and-socket joint for two rigid pipe lengths 1, 2, for instance of a dredging sludge pipe line, provided with a ball joint 3 affixed to the one pipe length 1, and with a ball socket 4, 5, 14 affixed in the coupled position integrally to the other pipe length 2, in which socket the ball joint 3 in the coupled position is omnilaterally pivotable, and which ball socket 4, 5, 14 comprises at least a two-part coupling body 4, 5 which is integrally omnilaterally pivotable with respect to the ball joint 3, and retained about said ball joint 3, and a separate sleeve 14 affixed to the other pipe length 2, said coupling body 4, 5 and sleeve 14 being adapted during the insertion for coupling the pipe lengths 1, 2 in the sleeve 14 of the ball joint 3 with coupling body 4, 5 retained therearound, for snapping together said sleeve 14 and said coupling body 4, 5 with mutual centering.
REFERENCES:
patent: 3429588 (1969-02-01), Nelson
patent: 3433504 (1969-03-01), Hanes
patent: 3450421 (1969-06-01), Harwell
patent: 3521911 (1970-07-01), Hanes et al.
patent: 3741591 (1973-06-01), Fessler
patent: 3944263 (1976-03-01), Arnold
patent: 4139221 (1979-02-01), Shotbolt
Arola Dave W.
Scheepswerf Stapel B.V.
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