F - Mech Eng,Light,Heat,Weapons – 16 – L
Patent
F - Mech Eng,Light,Heat,Weapons
16
L
F16L 19/12 (2006.01) F16L 21/04 (2006.01) F16L 37/092 (2006.01)
Patent
CA 2267053
The disclosure relates to a tube coupling comprising a coupling body (10) having a throughway (11) open at one end (12) to receive an end portion of a tube (13) and having an internal cam surface (29) tapering towards the open end in which a collet (25) is located for locking the tube in the coupling body by engagement with the tapered cam surface, and having stop means (19) to limit entry of the collet into the throughway. The coupling body having a main body (10a) the throughway of which receives the end of a tube and contains said stop means to limit insertion of the collet and an end cap (10b) in screwthreaded engagement with the main body containing said open end (12) to the throughway and the tapered cam surface (24), Indexing means (24,30,31,33) between the end cap and main body to define different positions of rotational adjustment in the first of which a tube can be inserted and, by depressing the collet into the coupling body, released from the coupling body and in the second of which the collet is engaged with the stop means to prevent the collet being depressed into the coupling body to release the tube.
Fetherstonhaugh & Co.
Guest John Derek
John Guest International Limited
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