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US 2019/0352057 A1Published application
Sanitary drum fitting and method of installing same
OwnerGary Baughmaninventor
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Abstract
A closure for drums and containers accommodating sanitary fittings is contemplated. The closure is attached in a manner that avoids any recesses along the interior of the contain
Claims17
A sanitary closure bushing received in an aperture of a container, the bushing comprising:
- a hollow cylinder having sidewalls along a top portion and a lower portion;
- a flange extending radially outward from a terminal edge of the top portion;
- wherein an annular transition is as created as a thickness of the sidewall in the top portion is reduced to a lesser thickness of the sidewall in the lower portion;
- and
- wherein an outer diameter of the annular transition seals to an inner diameter of the aperture in the container.
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A method of creating a sanitary fitting in a container comprising:
- creating an aperture in a container;
- positioning a tubular bushing a shoulder transitioning a thicker sidewall end to a thinner sidewall end so that the thinner sidewall end extends into the container and the thicker sidewall end protrudes out of the container;
- and
- curling a terminal edge of the thinner sidewall end outwardly around a collar fitted an exterior circumference of the tubular bushing until the curled sidewall secures the tubular bushing by capturing an edge of the container proximate to the aperture between the shoulder and at least one of the collar and the curled terminal edge.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.