Pipe joints or couplings – With fluid pressure seal – With separate – encased pipe-gripping means
Patent
1991-08-22
1992-11-03
Reese, Randolph A.
Pipe joints or couplings
With fluid pressure seal
With separate, encased pipe-gripping means
285105, 285108, 285 90, 285404, 277 343, F16L 1700
Patent
active
051601753
ABSTRACT:
A quick pipe coupling a circular receiving chamber adjacent to the orifice thereof for holding a movable taper ring and an inflatable tube, an U-shaped lock pin releasably inserted therein to retain the taper ring in place, a toothed lock ring fastened in the orifice, wherein the movable taper ring is squeezed by said inflatable tube against the teeth on the toothed lock ring when the U-shaped lock pin is removed from the pipe coupling, causing the teeth on the toothed lock ring to respectively engage into the outer surface of the pipe inserted through the lock ring, the movable taper ring and the inflatable tube into the pipe coupling so that the pipe inserted therein is firmly retained in place.
REFERENCES:
patent: 922075 (1909-05-01), Bates
patent: 3843167 (1974-10-01), Gronstedt
patent: 4059295 (1977-11-01), Helm
patent: 4892144 (1990-01-01), Coone
Aberle Timothy
Reese Randolph A.
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