Quick connect feature for a fluid connection
OwnerRonald D. Green, Danny Patrick Schester +1inventors
InventorsRonald D. Green, Danny Patrick Schester, Joseph P. Schutte
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Abstract
A stub-out assembly includes a stub-out conduit that defines a major diameter and a minor diameter. The minor diameter defines an attachment groove for receipt of a mount housing and a valve housing. An internal structure such as a multitude of splines, are engageable with an anti-rotation disc within the valve assembly to rotationally fix the valve housing on the stub-out conduit. Another external anti-rotation structure may be achieved through the use of various geometric shapes that interlock or interface with mating geometry located within the quick connect fitting.
Claims12
A stub-out comprising:
- a stub-out conduit having a minor diameter, a major diameter and an attachment groove therebetween, said major diameter defining an anti-rotation feature.
A stub-out comprising:
- a stub-out conduit having a minor diameter, a major diameter and an attachment groove therebetween, said minor diameter defining an anti-rotation feature.
A stub-out assembly comprising:
- a stub-out conduit having a minor diameter, a major diameter and an attachment groove therebetween, said major diameter defining an anti-rotation feature;
- a mount housing having a multitude of circumferential fingers defined about an axis and a slot generally transverse to said axis;
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- a retainer mountable at least partially within said slot, said retainer having a set of conduit attachment legs and a set of housing attachment legs defined within a common plane, said set of conduit attachment legs engageable with said attachment groove and said set of housing attachment legs engageable with a corresponding surface within said slot to retain said stub-out conduit within said mount housing.
A stub-out assembly comprising:
- a stub-out conduit having a minor diameter, a major diameter and an attachment groove therebetween, said minor diameter defining an anti-rotation feature;
- a mount housing having a multitude of circumferential fingers defined about an axis and a slot generally transverse to said axis;
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- a retainer mountable at least partially within said slot, said retainer having a set of conduit attachment legs and a set of housing attachment legs defined within a common plane, said set of conduit attachment legs engageable with said attachment groove and said set of housing attachment legs engageable with a corresponding surface within said slot to retain said stub-out conduit within said mount housing.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.