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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:
Oct. 03, 1995
Filed:
Nov. 03, 1993
Applicant:
Inventors:
Charles Litvin, West Chester, PA (US);
Kurt F Hafeken, Newark, DE (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F16B / ; F16B / ; F04D / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
403298 ; 403292 ;
Abstract
A tubing connector to join together two pieces of hollow tubing, which connector includes a disk like separator ring with a first rib extending from each side, which rib each has flat sides with a second rib perpendicular thereto, with additional ribs with tapered sides on each side of the second rib, which ribs fit into the tubing pieces in compressed relation, for securely retaining the tubing pieces together, but which can be readily removed if required. The connector is made of molded plastic.