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Patent No.:

US 8946603 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Feb. 03, 2015

Filed:

Sep. 16, 2011

Drain/fill fitting

Applicants:

Kenneth M. Reynolds, Stanwood, WA (US);

Charles F. Forster, Arlington, WA (US);

Inventors:

Kenneth M. Reynolds, Stanwood, WA (US);

Charles F. Forster, Arlington, WA (US);

Assignee:

BE Aerospace, Inc., Wellington, FL (US);

Attorney:

Shumaker, Loop & Kendrick, LLP

Primary Examiner:

Tu B Hoang

Assistant Examiner:

Michael Hoang

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H05B 3/06 (2006.01); H05B 3/00 (2006.01); H05B 11/00 (2006.01); E03B 7/10 (2006.01); F16L 53/00 (2006.01); F24H 1/10 (2006.01); H05B 3/78 (2006.01); B64D 11/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
F16L 53/008 (2013.01); B64D 11/02 (2013.01);
Abstract

An aircraft drain/fill fitting includes a housing adapted for being fitted into an opening between an aircraft interior and an aircraft exterior. The housing has an interior housing segment fluidly coaxially communicating with an exterior housing segment to define a liquid flow path therethrough, and a heater for applying heat to the interior housing segment. A hollow insert element is positioned in the interior housing segment in heat transfer contact with an inner wall of the interior housing segment. An elongate heat transfer probe is positioned in heat transfer contact with the hollow insert element and extends into the exterior housing segment to reduce the incidence of freezing of liquid in the exterior housing segment.

Find Patent Forward Citations

Reynolds, Kenneth. (2015). Drain/fill fitting (U.S. Patent No. 8946603). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/8946603

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