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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 26, 2017
Filed:
Apr. 15, 2015
Applicant:
Paratech, Incorporated, Frankfort, IL (US);
Inventor:
William O. Teach, Frankfort, IL (US);
Assignee:
Paratech, Incorporated, Frankfort, IL (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F16B 7/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
F16B 7/042 (2013.01);
Abstract
A shaft adapter configured to be removably-coupled to shafts of differing diameters. The shaft adapter may have a stepped cylinder cavity with multiple inner diameters. The shaft adapter may further have a spring-loaded adapter ring configured to translate along an inner wall of the stepped cylinder cavity, and may be configured to support an outer wall of a first shaft received into the shaft adapter, or may be configured to be urged into a compressed position when the shaft adapter receives a second shaft.