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US 12,601,439 B2Granted
Fitting with ring nut for fixing a branch pipe of an irrigation system
AssigneeTeco S.R.L.
InventorCosimo Iacopetta
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Abstract
An internally hollow fitting for the passage of a liquid, in particular water, with a component to restrain unmovably a pipe of an irrigation system, wherein the restraining component of the pipe is carried by a ring nut screwing on an external thread of the at least one end of the fitting.
Claims6
A fitting assembly for the passage of a liquid, comprising:
- an internally hollow fitting;
- and
- a ring nut provided at at least one end of the fitting,
- the ring nut screwing on an external thread of said at least one end of the fitting,
- wherein said ring nut has a cylindrical shape and is integral in a unitary one-piece structure with an internal tubular protrusion, having a slight conicity, which is placed against a beveled or conical section of a wall of an internal cavity of the fitting, creating a seal of the ring nut on the fitting, and
- wherein a conical section is provided inside the ring nut that narrows in a direction of the fitting, creating a sharp edge designed to bite on a pipe of an irrigation system once the pipe is inserted through the ring nut screwed onto the fitting, preventing exiting of the pipe and immovably restraining the pipe;
- the conical section and the fitting being configured to permit the pipe to be inserted into the fitting after the ring nut is fully screwed onto the fitting.
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A method of immovable fixing of a pipe to a fitting for the transport of a liquid in an irrigation system, comprising:
- screwing a ring nut onto an external thread of at least one end of the fitting;
- and
- inserting the pipe in said ring nut after the ring nut is fully screwed onto the fitting,
- wherein a conical section is provided inside the ring nut that narrows in a direction of the fitting, creating a sharp edge designed to bite on the pipe once the pipe is inserted through the ring nut screwed onto the fitting, preventing exiting of the pipe and immovably restraining the pipe, and wherein the pipe remains locked through engagement with the sharp edge provided inside the ring nut, suitable for biting on the pipe, the conical section and the fitting being configured to permit the pipe to be inserted into the fitting after the ring nut is fully screwed onto the fitting, and
- wherein said ring nut has a cylindrical shape and is integral in a unitary one-piece structure with an internal tubular protrusion, having a slight conicity, which is placed against a beveled or conical section of a wall of an internal cavity of the fitting, creating a seal of the ring nut on the fitting.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.