Torus type connector

Details Torus type connector Torus type connector

1982-01-28

1985-05-14

Arola, Dave W.

Pipe joints or couplings

Essential catch

With manipulator

285320, 285DIG22, 285 92, F16L 3718

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045167958

ABSTRACT:
A remotely operable torus type connector for releasably connecting the adjoining ends of tubular members together wherein each of the ends is provided with a locking shoulder and one of the ends has a plurality of locking segments pivotally mounted thereon with a surrounding torus section adapted to slidably engage the corresponding outer surface of the locking segments to pivot such segments inwardly or outwardly as the torus section is moved longitudinally thereof. The torus section is carried by a ring slidably mounted in a surrounding housing with hydraulic or mechanical means for sliding the ring in the torus section.

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patent: 2770474 (1956-11-01), Knapp
patent: 3096999 (1963-07-01), Ahlstone et al.
patent: 3222088 (1965-12-01), Haeber
patent: 3321217 (1967-05-01), Ahlstone
patent: 3492027 (1970-01-01), Herring
patent: 3554579 (1971-01-01), Brown
patent: 4337971 (1982-07-01), Kendrick

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