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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 09, 1978
Filed:
Feb. 13, 1976
Applicant:
Inventor:
Leighton Lee, II, Guilford, CT (US);
Assignee:
The Lee Company, Westbrook, CT (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F16L / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
285322 ; 285331 ; 2853341 ; 2853342 ; 285356 ; 285423 ;
Abstract
A connector for Teflon tubing having a male connector with a tapered end providing a male conical sealing surface engageable with a conforming internal conical sealing surface machined in the end of the Teflon tubing. A collet having an annular collar conforming to and surrounding the interfitting male connector and end of tubing provides with the male conical sealing surface an axially extending wedge-shaped annulus for receiving and gripping the internally tapered end of the Teflon tubing.