Campbell Hausfeld/scott Fetzer Company

Jeffery G Ricker

Thomas A Burdsall

Shane Adam Byler

Maureen E Carroll

Brian L Frost

Roger E DeYoung

A socket of a fluid coupling device includes a housing with a cavity centered on an axis. A pawl, attached to the housing, is pivotable about a pivot location relative to the housing, and has a catch section located axially outward from the pivot location. A spring biases the catch section radially inward. A plug is configured to move axially into the cavity while sliding against the catch section to move the catch section radially outward, against bias of the spring, out of the way of the plug. After an axially-outwardly facing catch surface of the plug passes the catch section, the catch section can pivot radially inward and abut the plug catch surface to capture the plug in the socket.

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Old Hickory, TN, United States of America

Jeffery G Ricker