Dixon Valve & Coupling Company, LLC

Lucas Barmoy

Maximilian De Arriz

Tony Benjamin Reed

A coupler assembly is provided that includes an adapter body, a coupler body, and a sealing gasket. The adapter body has a sidewall with a circumferential groove in an outer periphery thereof, the coupler body has a sidewall defining an adapter-receiving socket therein, and the sealing ring is housed within the coupler body and captured between an end wall flange of the coupler body at a base of the adapter-receiving socket and a radially inward extending gasket retaining lip of the coupler body spaced from the end wall flange. At least one cam arm and at least one safety-release tab are connected to the sidewall of the coupler body, and at least one vent channel is formed in the sidewall of the coupler body within the adapter-receiving socket and extends from the end wall flange to beyond the gasket retaining lip of the coupler body adjacent an outer periphery of the sealing ring.

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Salisbury, MD, United States of America

Lucas Barmoy