Seal for a joint or juncture – Seal between relatively movable parts – Relatively rotatable radially extending sealing face member
Patent
1994-08-30
1996-04-16
Cuchlinski, Jr., William A.
Seal for a joint or juncture
Seal between relatively movable parts
Relatively rotatable radially extending sealing face member
277DIG10, 73 491, 73 495, 73 498, 137 6811, 138 89, F16J 900, G01M 308, G01M 304
Patent
active
055075010
ABSTRACT:
A disc-shaped sealing device for use in temporarily blocking and sealing a plastic fitting in a drain, vent, waste plumbing system is molded as an integral, unitary piece from polymeric material. The sealing device comprises a circular disc and an angled flange extending outwardly and upwardly from the perimeter of the circular disc. The disc-shaped device fits snugly within a barrel of a plastic fitting such that the circular disc is coaxially received in the barrel of the plastic fitting and the angled flange mates with and lies against a bevel in the barrel of the plastic fitting. A lug extends downwardly from the circular disc. First and second elongate grooves are formed in one of the surfaces of the circular disc. These grooves have a common juncture positioned near the forward end of the lug, the grooves diverge and extending along the opposite sides of the lug to near the back end of the lug. The grooves then further extend so that the first groove curves in an arc around the perimeter of the circular disc, and the second groove extends in an arc that is spaced inwardly toward a central portion of the circular disc from the first groove. The disc-shaped device can be ripped out of the barrel of the fitting so as to remove the device in its entirety from the fitting by pulling on the lug and ripping the circular disc along the first and second grooves in a spiral ripping motion that ultimately pulls the circular disc and the angled flange out of the fitting.
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Crellin Terry M.
Cuchlinski Jr. William A.
Hwang Keith
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