Abstract: A connection device for two components, for example a container and a dispenser, provided with a member moveable between two positions. In the first position the member permits engagement of the two components. The member moves between the first and second position upon either connection or disconnection of the components and can not be readily moved back to the first position with the member. In the second position the components can not be re-engaged.

Abstract: A drilling tool is made up of a holder and a drilling member detachably connected together. One of the holder and the drilling member telescopes into the other. Resilient tab-like parts on one of the holder and the drill member engages within recesses in the other for effecting a rotatably locked connection between them. Accordingly, torque can be transmitted through the drilling tool by the tab-like parts and the recesses for effecting a drilling operation. The holder and drilling member can be disconnected without the use of any auxiliary tools.

Abstract: An improved quick-disconnect hose coupling comprising a female coupling half having a ball valve designed with positive interlocking means for retention of a male coupling half in a receptacle formed therein. The ball valve is enclosed in a housing and is arranged to be pivotable therein about an axis, such that the male coupling half communicates with a bore hole in the other end of the ball valve. Pivoting movement of the ball valve provides a flow connection by bringing the bore hole into communication with a hose connector element retained in the other end of the housing, while interlocking pins contained in the ball valve mechanically engage the male coupling half in the receptacle. In one embodiment, a releasable latch engages a contoured slot in the housing for providing positively defined valve operating positions, such that the mechanical connection is completed prior to and separate from the flow connection.

Abstract: A connection assembly secured a running tool into a tubular casing hanger. The connection assembly includes a frusto-conical threaded section on a running tool and a nose section of cylindrical shape located below the threaded section. The casing hanger has a bore with at least one circumferential recess. A collet ring having internal threads is initially carried on the nose section. The collet ring lands in the recess when the running tool is moved into the casing hanger. Continued movement causes the collet ring to deflect outward. The collet ring has threads on its inner diameter that slide on the threads of the running tool to latch the members together. Slots in the collet ring enable the outward deflection to occur. A pin engages the collet ring to enable rotation of the running tool relative to the collet ring to unscrew the members from each other.

Abstract: This invention relates to a peripheral connector for a standard coupler, which permits the coupler to be remotely connectable and disconnectable. A male unit and a female unit of the invention enclose a male half and a female half of the coupler, respectively, and cover them with protective boots. A female unit projects an assembly, thereby opening the boot covering the female coupler half. The projected assembly pushes against portions of the male unit, opening the boot covering the male unit, and connecting the coupler. Disconnection is accomplished by moving the projected assembly in the opposite direction.

Abstract: A ratcheting connector for providing a radial connection between two concentric tubular members, with one of the members having a recess in which a split latching ring is mounted with coarse threaded engagement between said split latching ring and said one member and fine threads on the side of said split latching ring facing the other member which has mating fine threads with a shape which cams said split latching ring into its recess as the threads move past each other in the direction of installation. Setting of the connector is accomplished after full engagement of the fine threads by rotation of the central tubular member less than a full revolution.

Abstract: A coupling device between a hose and the radiator of a motor vehicle has a nipple on the radiator with a circumferentially complete rib at its front end. The front flank of the rib is conical and the rear flank of the rib extends radially of the nipple and is adjacent a groove with three equidistant axially parallel ramps one of which is in line with a bridge extending forwardly of the conical flank. The end of the hose is attached to a coupling element with three equidistant prongs each having a radially inwardly extending claw at its front end. The claws slide along the conical flank of the rib when the front end of the coupling element is inserted into the front end of the nipple, and the claws ultimately enter into and are held in the groove. Each claw has two mutually inclined cam faces, the same as the bridge.

Abstract: An adapter for coupling a flexible corrugated drainpipe to a sewage disposal site inlet, includes a hollow tubular member having an opened drainpipe end portion adapted to engage threadably an end of a corrugated drainpipe. A hollow adapter member has an opened rear end portion adapted to be inserted into the disposal site inlet, and an opened upstanding front end portion, receives telescopically in a tight fitting relationship an opened rear end portion of the tubular member to interconnect the two members in fluid communication. A quick release mechanism on the tubular and adapter members enables a user to disassemble the two members by rotating the members axially relative to one another.

Abstract: The end portion of a hose is bonded to the front section of a tubular connector whose rear section surrounds the end portion of the hose and has two integral pallets whose teeth engage a circumferentially extending external rib of a nipple which receives the front section of the connector with the interposition of an annular sealing device. The rib has axially parallel passages which register with the teeth of the pallets during insertion of the front section of the connector into or during extraction of the front section of the connector from the nipple.

Abstract: A connector for and a method of connecting pipe members for a variety of purposes including (but not limited to) plumbing, hydraulics, pneumatics and medical purposes. Wherein the connector which can be used in conjunction with other fittings, has a connector body with an opening to receive a pipe and a tapered internal bore in the opening to receive a substantially coaxial inner sleeve adapted to engage the surface of the pipe in the connector. After insertion, the pipe is then moved in an opposite direction to the direction of insertion and the inner sleeve is adapted to slide wherein internal bore to wedge into frictional engagement and connection with the outer surface of the pipe and the tapered surface of the internal bore so that when the pipe is sealably engaged within the connector the pipe can be disengaged from the connector by a reverse operation.

Abstract: An axial locking device having two separable members which can be locked together and unlocked by relative axial movement of the two members in one direction. A slider is incorporated in one of the members and is movable relative to the member against a spring when the two members are moved axially relative to one another in one direction. The slider is displaced in one angular direction by interengagement of mutually engageable teeth on the one member and on the slider each time the slider is moved axially. This angular displacement of the slider locks the two members together when they are first pushed axially together against the force exerted by the spring on the slider and then unlocks the two members when they are subsequently pushed axially together against the spring force to permit one handed and/or speedy operation of the locking device.

Abstract: The invention proposes a quick connection which has utility in a wide field, for instance, for connecting fluid lines, electric cables, etc., and comprises an inserted tubular end portion, which is formed near its extreme end with concave recesses serving as detent means, and which is provided with a radially acting locking collar. The second tubular end portion comprises a socket, which contains an inserted locking ring, which has detent fingers, which releasably interlock with the concave recesses of the inserted tubular end portion and are provided on their back side with reversely foldable, thin webs which bear on the inside surface of the socket. Such quick coupling can be resiliently interlocked simply in that the tubular end portions are urged into each other, and can be unlocked only by an angular movement. The coupling is particularly adapted to be connected and disconnected by industrial robots in automated production sequences. The coupling transmits longitudinal forces and is radially locked.

Abstract: A hose coupling wherein the end portion of a pipe is sealingly but separably connected with the end portion of a deformable hose by a tubular connector which has a first section sealingly fitted into the end portion of the pipe and a second section preferably sealingly attached to the end portion of the hose. The second section can abut against the end face of the end portion of the hose or it can surround or extend into such end portion. The connector carries one or more pivotable latching devices with pallets which engage a portion of the external surface of the end portion of the pipe or portions of surfaces bounding openings in the end portion of the pipe. A sealing element in the form of an O-ring or a sleeve is inserted between the internal surface of the end portion of the pipe and the external surface of the respective section of the connector to ensure that the seal between the connector and the pipe remains intact even if one of these parts moves axially relative to the other part.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to a tap or valve body (10) having a bore (11) to receive a tube which is locked in the bore by means of a collet form tube coupling (21) and is sealed to the bore by O-ring seals 17, 18. The collet is encircled by a plastics insert sleeve (22) located in a counter-bore (19) at the end of bore 11 and held therein by a spring ring (39) embedded in the sleeve. The insert sleeve has a tapered bore (27) which converges towards the end of the tape or valve body and with which resilient fingers (32) of the collet engage to be compressed around the tube by the convergent bore to grip and hold the tube in the body.

Abstract: A device for connecting together tubes or pipes is disclosed, which comprises a cylindrical male coupler provided on one end of a first tube or pipe and having an engagement projection formed on the outer periphery, and a female coupler provided on one end of a second tube or pipe and having a helical engagement notch for receiving the engagement projection. The two couplers can be tightly coupled together by fitting the male coupler to the female coupler such that the engagement projection is received in the helical engagement notch and then turning the couplers relative to each other.

Abstract: A quick connect/quick disconnect coupling utilizes a retainer mounted between expanded ring portions of a tube. A sleeve is mounted over the retainer such that projecting leg portions from the retainer extend outwardly through openings in the sleeve. Upon assembly into a socket these outwardly projecting leg members engage a socket contact face to secure the coupling in the assembled position. To effect removal of the coupling the tube is displaced within the socket such that the retainer is displaced relative to the sleeve. As the retainer is displaced relative to the sleeve a compaction annulus portion of the sleeve acts to compress the projecting legs such that the tube with the attached retainer and sleeve may be removed from the socket to effect disconnection of the coupling.

Abstract: In a coupling formed of two components, one of which has a body portion with a bore having a taper to give a decreasing diameter towards an entry end of the bore, a collet having resilient arms being located in the bore and the second component having a tube adapted for insertion into said collet through the entry end to be gripped thereby, the tapered bore causing the grip to be tightened if the second component is pulled in the outward direction from the bore in the first component, in order to prevent separation of the components after assembly, the collet has a portion protruding out of the first component through said entry end of the bore and the second component has a portion extending around the protruding end of the collet and the two components having surfaces which abut to prevent the collet being pressed inwardly into the bore in the first component by moving the two components towards one another.

Abstract: In a tube coupling of the kind having a collet for gripping a tube within a body member, the collet having arms co-operating with a tapered bore in the body member so that a pull on the tube pulls the collet outwardly and so causes the collet arms to grip the tube more firmly, and wherein the tube can be released from the coupling by axial inward pressure on a head on the collet, accidental release of the tube is prevented by an end cover through which the tube passes and which surrounds the collet head, the end cover resiliently engaging in the body member.

Abstract: An improved high pressure coupler disconnecting device providing increased force necessary for uncoupling high pressure lines under high pressure at a predetermined point of separation. A flexible high pressure hose attached to the female portion of the coupler is placed through a tower device which surroundably restrains movement of the flexible hose. The tower base, supported by a ring, is positioned in such a manner as to apply lifting force to the female coupler lock sleeve when the tower is moved from the neutral position. The annular construction permits the invention to function in any position around a full 360.degree. sweep from the centrally located release mechanism.

Abstract: A tension connector, and offshore platform mooring system embodying the connector, characterized in that the connector can be made up remotely and released remotely. The connector comprises a male connector member, typically attached to a string of pipe which serves as a mooring element, and a female connector member, typically secured to an anchoring base at the bottom of a body of water. The connector is made up simply by inserting the male member downwardly into the female member by manipulating the pipe string. Advantageously, two remote release means are provided, one operating hydraulically, the other by manipulation of the pipe string.

Abstract: A vent cap having a quick release fastener for connecting the vent cap to a flue pipe of a furnace or other such combustion system is disclosed. The fastener is designed for attachment to a tubular stub connector of the vent cap and has a clip portion for engaging a slot in the flue pipe to lock the vent cap and flue pipe tigether between the clip portion and a shoulder portion of the fastener. The vent cap is easily disconnected from the flue pipe by rotating the vent cap about the longitudinal axis of the flue pipe to remove the clip portion of the fastener from the slot in the flue pipe and then, pulling the vent cap apart from the flue pipe.

Abstract: A well casing hanger assembly for releasably connecting first and second well casings to and from each other in a well by longitudinal movement of the first member. The first member includes an annular recess in its peripheral surface and a stop shoulder is positioned at each end of the recess and a resiliently expandable and contractible locking ring is positioned in the recess for engagement with a locking notch on the second member. A protrusion is positioned in the recess and initially coacts with an opening in the locking ring. An improved releasable holding means is provided for initially preventing the locking ring from moving axially on the first member until the locking ring expands and engages the second member.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for positioning and bonding a liner in a casing in a well bore wherein a pack off bushing is provided between the liner and the well string on which the liner is lowered into the well bore for discharge of a bonding agent through the well string and around the liner in the well bore.The seal or pack off bushing is constructed and arranged so that it may be retrieved after the positioning and bonding operations are completed along with the well string upon which the liner is initially lowered into the well bore.

Abstract: Modular fire fighting apparatus includes a power module having a turbine driven by fluid, such as water, introduced at a supply inlet to a housing for the module, a drive shaft driven by the turbine and extending from a coupling face of the housing and a fluid outlet disposed at the coupling face of the housing, and various penetrating and extinguishing tool modules each having a housing within which are disposed a fluid receiving inlet and a driven member. The penetrating and extinguishing tool modules are each adapted to be mounted on the power module such that the driven member is releasably engaged with the drive shaft and fluid supplied to the power module housing is delivered to the penetrating and extinguishing tool module housing via the fluid outlet of the power module housing and the fluid receiving inlet of the penetrating and extinguishing tool module housing.

Abstract: A liquid or gas system connector, which is easily attachable and detachable, and provides a seal to avoid undesirable leakage when in the connected position. The connection is accomplished by guiding a first member along cam surfaces and, when the first member has been guided in the connecting position, the same cam surfaces press against each other, supplying an axially directed force which deforms a resilient o-ring to provide a leak-proof seal.

Abstract: A well pipe hanger assembly for suspending an inner pipe from an outer pipe. A hanger body with an annular recess in its outer peripheral surface in which a resiliently expandable and contractible locking ring is positioned in the recess between two stop shoulders for engagement with a matching profile on the inner peripheral surface of the outer pipe. The locking ring includes first and second telescoping portions with a re-engageable releasing means betweeen the first and second portions, initially holding the portions together but allowing longitudinal disengagement and re-engagement of the telescoping portions. Preferably, the re-engagable releasing means includes beveled cam surfaces on each portion thereby providing a recockable expanding hanger which automatically allows recocking of the locking means upon upward movement of the hanger body.

Abstract: A grease gun coupler for attachment to a Zerk fitting, the coupler having a rotatable socket to constrict the jaws onto the Zerk fitting; there being a non-yielding multi-part mechanical connection between the rear edges of the clamping jaws and the front end of the tubular base of the coupler, including a rigid sleeve bearing rearwardly against the tubular base of the coupler and having rigid legs projecting through the base wall of a cup-shaped seal and bearing against the annular disc which engages the jaws.

Abstract: In hanger apparatus of the type comprising a hanger mandrel carried by an inner pipe, an outer body which can be carried by an outer pipe, and a resiliently contractable annular locking device carried by the mandrel for locking the mandrel to the hanger body to suspend the inner pipe, the locking device comprises two independent annular resilient means, the upper one of which constitutes a locking means to cooperate with a locking groove in the hanger body and the lower one of which constitutes a catching means to cooperate with a catching groove in the hanger body below the locking groove. The two annular means are disposed in an outwardly opening annular recess presented by the mandrel. The invention has the advantage that the locking means, which may be a split ring, can be wholly within the mandrel recess as the mandrel is run down to the hanger body, the active outer surfaces of the locking ring thus being protected from being damaged during the trip down to the hanger body.

Abstract: An earth boring assembly is provided with a hammer member at its leading end for impacting through an earth formation to form a boring therein. An expander cone is attached rearwardly of the hammer to expand the boring which has been formed by the hammer and drag pipes are connected to follow the hammer into the boring. Clamping means interposed between the expander cone and the drag pipe operate to automatically effect frictional locking engagement between the hammer and the drag pipe when the expander cone and the drag pipe are moved toward each other and to automatically release the frictional engagement when the members are moved away from each other. The clamping means may specifically comprise an annular slotted ring having wedge-shaped outer surfaces by means of which the ring is caused to become clamped and released about the hammer.

Abstract: Our invention pertains to a gas outlet device that is adapted to be installed in a wall and a connector tube that is designed to engage and disengage the gas outlet device. More particularly, our invention pertains to a gas outlet device and a connector tube that can be engaged and disengaged by simply pushing and pulling the connector tube and which eliminates the necessity for rotating the connector tube in order to engage it with the gas outlet device.

Abstract: A flow-through or fluid coupling connector assembly possessing positive locking connect and ready disconnect comprising two connector bodies; one having a male tubular member, and the other having a female tubular member for receiving the male member upon connection of the two bodies together. The male tubular member of the one connector body has resilient arm members spaced from and extending along opposite sides of the tubular member's axis with the free remote ends of the arms flaring outwardly therefrom. The arm members are each provided with an inwardly projecting flange member for locking the two connector bodies together by fitting into a recessed collar on the other connector body.