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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 18, 2003
Filed:
Dec. 27, 2000
George Szabo, Ortonville, MI (US);
ITT Manufacturing Enterprises, Inc., Wilmington, DE (US);
Abstract
A release tool for a quick connector with a radially displaceable retainer has a pair of arms extending from a collar which are normally disposed on axially extending surfaces of the housing of the female component of the quick connector when the release tool is mounted on the housing. A retainer engaging surface on each of the arms is movably engageable with projections on side legs of the retainer to urge the projections and the end portions of the side legs of the retainer radially inward to a position where the projections are disengaged from lock edges on the axially extending surfaces of the housing to allow disengagement of the retainer element from the male component of the quick connector.