Self locking coupling device

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1986-05-29

1987-03-10

McQuade, John

Geometrical instruments

339DIG2, H01R 13623

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046486712

ABSTRACT:
A coupling nut and a lock nut each being generally cylindrical with substantially like outside diameter and having an end face thereof provided with a contiguous 360.degree. plurality of teeth, the coupling nut being mounted for rotation on a plug shell, the lock nut being retained for axial sliding movement on a receptacle shell and biased forwardly by a pre-loaded spring, and the teeth being the same and interengaging only upon nearly full-mate of the shells. To retain the lock nut or change the position of the lock nut whereby to adjust the spring pre-load a pin from the receptacle is received in one of a pair of detents in an L-shaped cavity formed in the lock nut.

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