Pipe joints or couplings – Flange – Detachable
Patent
1993-03-05
1994-10-11
Reese, Randolph A.
Pipe joints or couplings
Flange
Detachable
285415, F16L 23032
Patent
active
053541081
ABSTRACT:
A pipe coupling having a pair of opposed, semi-circular collar halves to be attached via fasteners for clamping the halves together on abutting ends of collinear pipes. The pipe ends have circumferential grooves engaged by ridges on an inside of collar half. A pair of parallel reinforcing wings extend radially by a varying height on an outside of the collar halves, along the axial edges, providing rigidity and strength to the pipe coupling. The wings increase in radial height from the circumferential ends adjacent the tabs to a maximum at the center of the coupling. The wings thereby distribute unequal forces, which are concentrated at the center, to achieve equally distributed deformation with such forces, thereby reducing the possibility of the ridges disengaging the grooves due to concentration of deformation at a local area.
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Chun Heather
Reese Randolph A.
Ward Manufacturing, Inc.
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