Pipe joints or couplings – With indicator – alarm or inspection means
Patent
1985-07-10
1987-05-19
Kundrat, Andrew V.
Pipe joints or couplings
With indicator, alarm or inspection means
285248, 285257, 285322, 285921, 285330, 285423, F16L 3323
Patent
active
046661905
ABSTRACT:
A tube joint comprising (1) a tube joint body including a tubular guide, on at least one side thereof, for receiving a tube thereon, said guide having a groove in the circumference of the end portion thereof, (2) a clamping ring including a tubular portion which has external threads and a plurality of slits extending from said external threads to the end portion thereof in the direction of the axis, said tubular portion being concentrically positioned around the guide of the tube joint body with a space therebetween which is large enough to receive the tube therein in such a manner that the end portion of the tubular portion containing the slit area corresponds to the groove in the guide, and (3) a cap nut having internal threads in one end portion thereof, which engage with the external threads of the clamping ring, and the tapered portion of the interior surface of the other end portion having an aperture therein which is greater in diameter than the outer diameter of the tube, tightening of said cap nut ot said clamping ring resulting in a decrease in the diameter of the clamping ring in the end portion of the slit area.
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Miura Kiyoshi
Yamabe Yasuo
Kundrat Andrew V.
Nicholson Eric K.
Sekisui Kagaku Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
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