Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Tube coupling
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Application No.: US17560805Application Date: 2021-12-23
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Publication No.: US11976759B2Publication Date: 2024-05-07
- Inventor: Glen Ansell , Joshua Smith
- Applicant: Reliance Worldwide Corporation (UK) Limited
- Applicant Address: GB West Drayton Middlesex
- Assignee: RELIANCE WORLDWIDE CORPORATION (UK) LIMITED
- Current Assignee: RELIANCE WORLDWIDE CORPORATION (UK) LIMITED
- Current Assignee Address: GB
- Agency: Barnes & Thornburg LLP
- Priority: GB 09903 2019.07.10 GB 09906 2019.07.10 GB 09909 2019.07.10
- Main IPC: F16L37/133
- IPC: F16L37/133 ; F16L33/03 ; F16L33/035

Abstract:
A tube coupling comprising having a coupling body with an opened ended throughway to receive a tube. A collet is located in the open end of the through way having a ring and flexible arms extending generally axially of the ring into the throughway. The throughway has a tapered surface convergent towards the open end and the collet arms have heads at their distal ends for engaging the tapered surface and a tube extending through the collet into the throughway to be compressed against the tube by the tapered surface with outward movement of the collet with respect of the throughway to secure the tube in the throughway. A collet lock is formed on the collet, and the collet has a locked rotary position Either the body or the collet has a cam surface and the other has a cam follower.
Public/Granted literature
- US20220112974A1 TUBE COUPLING Public/Granted day:2022-04-14
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