Pipe joints or couplings – With assembly means or feature – Combined inlet and outlet
Patent
1973-11-30
1976-01-13
Callaghan, Thomas F.
Pipe joints or couplings
With assembly means or feature
Combined inlet and outlet
285271, 285354, F16L 2706
Patent
active
039319920
ABSTRACT:
A connector construction employs a tail piece having a ball end, a socket element having a distendable end adapted to be snapped over said ball end and a coupling nut adapted to house the ball end and socket while threadedly engaging a pipe distal end to be connected thereto. The nut, when threaded into engagement with the pipe element, urges the socket element into fluid sealing engagement with the ball end and nut regardless of the angular disposition of the tail piece relative to the pipe element. The provided connector is particularly adapted for use with water meters or in similar applications in which spaced pipe ends or conduits to be interconnected by an interposed meter or the like are misaligned.
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Badger Meter Inc.
Callaghan Thomas F.
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