Universal nut with thread adapter
AssigneeBrassCraft Manufacturing Company
InventorJeffrey T. Root
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Abstract
A universal nut includes at least one shell including a base wall and a skirt extending axially away from the base wall and having an internal thread, and a thread adapter threaded to the internal thread of the skirt of the at least one shell. A universal fluid connector includes the universal nut, and a conduit extending along a conduit axis and including a tubing portion and a nut coupling portion. The base wall of the at least one shell couples to the nut coupling portion of the conduit and has a conduit aperture through which the conduit extends.
Claims22
A universal fluid connector, comprising:
- a conduit extending along a conduit axis and including a tubing portion and a nut coupling portion;
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- a universal nut, including
- at least one shell, including
- a base wall coupled to the nut coupling portion of the conduit and having a conduit aperture through which the conduit extends, and
- a skirt extending axially away from the base wall and having an internal thread, and
- a thread adapter threaded to the internal thread of the skirt of the at least one shell, wherein the thread adapter includes a single strip of material having a plurality of helical convolutions unconnected at axially adjacent edges thereof, includes inner and outer circumferences, an axially inboard end terminating within the inner and outer circumferences, and an axially outboard end terminating outside of the outer circumference and including a hook extending radially outwardly.
A universal fluid connector, comprising
- a conduit extending along a conduit axis and including a tubing portion and a nut coupling portion;
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- a universal nut, including
- at least one shell, including
- a base wall coupled to the nut coupling portion of the conduit and having a conduit aperture through which the conduit extends, and
- a skirt extending axially away from the base wall and having an internal thread, and
- an elastically resilient thread adapter threaded to the internal thread of the skirt of the at least one shell, configured as a single strip of material having a plurality of helical convolutions unconnected at axially adjacent edges thereof, and including inner and outer circumferences, an axially inboard end terminating within the inner and outer circumferences, and an axially outboard end terminating outside of the outer circumference and having a hook.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.