Abstract: A pipe coupling for joining hard-walled, semi-rigid pipe including a tubular portion over which the end of the pipe to be coupled may be engaged. The tubular portion has an external thread carrying a nut including an internal thread. The nut has a second tapered threaded portion adapted to cut a thread into the outside surface of the pipe and to secure the pipe to the coupling.

Abstract: An externally threaded split end fitting having a surface serving as a camming surface for an end-mounted nut. By advancing the nut along the split end of the fitting the camming surface reacting upon the nut causes a transmission of a reactive force through the nut onto the external threads of the split segmented end of the fitting causing in turn a radially inward bending of the jaw-like segments of the split head. The longitudinal axis of the fitting has a passageway for receiving one or more work pieces, whereby the pivoting of the segments clamp the workpiece(s) into the fitting. The fitting is unitary.

Abstract: A coupling and method of coupling thin-wall hose/tubing and the like includes an inner member, a sleeve surrounding the inner member and the tubing therebetween. The inner member is provided with a pair of tubing grooves and a seal material between the grooves. By means of compression rings or annular ridges the tubing is forced into the tubing grooves and stretched across the seal, thus forming a fluid-tight coupling member.

Abstract: A coupling and method of coupling thin-wall hose/tubing and the like includes an inner member, a sleeve surrounding the inner member and the tubing therebetween. The inner member is provided with a pair of tubing grooves and a seal in a seal groove therebetween. By means of compression rings or annular ridges the tubing is forced into the tubing grooves and stretched across the seal, thus forming a fluid-tight coupling member.

Abstract: A heat transfer system disposed between a heat-emitting zone or heat source and a heat-consuming zone or heat sink in accordance with the heat pipe principle. A vacuum-tight hose conduit is arranged between the heat-emitting zone and the heat-consuming zone at least along a partial region of a heat transfer path. The respective ends of the vacuum-tight hose conduit are threadedly connected in the heat transfer path with the vacuum-tight hose conduit being resistant to the heat transfer medium and being provided with an internal capillary structure for enabling a return of the condensate.

Abstract: A coupling device fitted onto an end of a hose into which a barbed nipple is inserted. The device is a rigid ferrule providing along its inner side two cylindrical portions of different diameters that are joined by a frusto-conical portion. The ferrule has a spiral thread of constant pitch formed on and along the inner side of all the portions. The thread in the larger cylindrical portion presses a shallow mating thread into the outside surface of the hose and initially advances the ferrule along the hose. The thread in the frusto-conical portion presses a progressively deepening thread into the hose and increasingly radially contracts the hose into the voids between the nipple barbs. The thread in the smaller cylindrical portion holds the hose contracted into the voids.

Abstract: A connector for connecting a pipe to a hose comprises a cylindrical protrusion on the pipe supporting an outwardly flared frusto-conical nipple. The hose is to be placed over the nipple and a sleeve is provided having a corresponding frusto-conical bore with internal threading to enable the sleeve to be tightened on the nipple. The cone angle of the bore is not the same as the cone angle of the nipple.

Abstract: A coupling joint for thermoplastic hose comprising a nipple having annular ribs of approximately the same diameter as the hose I.D., for easy insertion into the hose, and a nut of rigid material threaded over the hose O.D. and radially opposite the ribs. The nut has a rounded tapered thread that deforms the hose material to fill the thread and to cause the I.D. of the hose to fill the spaces between the annular ribs. The nipple has a cylindrical portion at its end and the nut has a counterbore at its forward end and the hose is lightly gripped therebetween to avoid sudden stress concentration on the hose at the first rib.

Abstract: Spout for a container, e.g. a gasoline can, is formed as a one-piece plastics moulding with a flared skirt on the base formed with a circumferential groove that snap-couples tightly onto a bead on a raised metal neck on the can. A screw-threaded locking collar engages on a screw thread on the spout and can be tightened down to hold the skirt tightly engaged on the bead.

Abstract: An outlet fitting construction for thin-walled, flexible plastic tubing for fluid distribution systems. The outlet fitting includes first and second outlet members that in the preferred embodiment are threadedly engaged and have aligned axial passageways. One outlet member is provided with an annular rim with a riding surface that facilitates insertion of the outlet fitting into an aperture in the flexible surface irrigation tubing. In an alternative embodiment a tube piercing member is provided that is engaged with the outlet members so that the outlet fitting may be inserted into a tube which does not have pre-existing apertures.