Tube connector assembly
AssigneeSaint-Gobain Performance Plastics France
InventorsJulien Nallet, Stéphane Domy, Mario Fregoso
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a tube connector assembly which may comprise a body provided with a through cavity extending in an axial direction, a ring adapted to be mounted at the periphery of a useful portion of the tube and provided, at one of its ends, with a support surface adapted to receive a curved end portion of the tube, a nut adapted to be screwed onto the body so as to compress the curved end portion of the tube against a receiving surface in the axial direction via said ring, and an annular receiving part forming the receiving surface and removably mounted on the body.
Claims20
A connector assembly for a tube comprising:
- a body provided with a cavity extending in an axial direction,
- a ring adapted to be mounted at the periphery of a useful portion of the tube, the ring having at one end a support surface adapted to receive a curved end portion of the tube, a nut adapted to be screwed onto the body so as to engage the ring to press the curved end portion of the tube against a receiving surface in the axial direction, and
- an annular receiving part forming the receiving surface and removably mounted on the body, wherein the nut is mounted at the periphery of the ring, and
- wherein the ring comprises a rib.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.