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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 29, 2023
Filed:
Oct. 11, 2021
Applicant:
Victaulic Company, Easton, PA (US);
Inventor:
Philip Wayne Bancroft, Belvidere, NJ (US);
Assignee:
Victaulic Company, Easton, PA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F16L 17/04 (2006.01); F16L 21/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
F16L 17/04 (2013.01); F16L 21/065 (2013.01);
Abstract
A coupling for joining pipe elements has segments surrounding a central space with cusps which engage lobes of a seal to maintain the segments in spaced apart relation in a preassembled state. While the coupling is in the preassembled state the pipe elements may be inserted into the central space without disassembling the coupling, and portions of the seal adjacent to attachment members on the segments seat within a channel defined by the segments between the cusps. The lobes of the seal contact a second surface of the shoulders of the segments adjacent to the attachment members when the segments are in spaced relation.