Fluid shut off valve cartridge with quick connection
AssigneeITT Manufacturing Enterprises, Inc.
InventorsShad A. Kelly, Daniel H. Walker
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Abstract
A fluid quick connector in cartridge form carrying a shut off valve is mountable in a bore in a fluid charged use device. An end form retainer is mounted in the cartridge for locking an end form in a bore in the cartridge. The shut off valve is internally mounted within the cartridge to selectively open and close a flow path through the cartridge from the fluid use device to the end form.
Claims28
A fluid quick connector for connecting a pressurized fluid use device having a bore opening to a fluid flow outlet in the fluid use device, and an endform, the quick connector comprising:
- a cartridge adapted to be mountable in the fluid use device in fluid flow communication with the outlet;
- a retainer mountable in the cartridge for latching an end form in the cartridge;
- a shutoff valve mounted in the cartridge, the shut off valve moveable between a first position blocking fluid flow through the cartridge, and a second position opening the cartridge to fluid communication with the outlet of the fluid use device and endform.
A fluid quick connector and a fluid pressurized use device combination comprising:
- a through bore in the use device, the through bore in fluid communication with the fluid flow outlet of the use device;
- a cartridge mountable in the bore in the receiver;
- a retainer mountable in the cartridge adapted for latching an end form in the cartridge;
- a shutoff valve mounted in the cartridge, the shut off valve moveable between a first position blocking fluid flow from the outlet of the use device, and a second position opening the bore in the cartridge to fluid communications with the outlet of the use device;
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- a biasing member, mounted in the cartridge, for normally biasing the shutoff valve to the first position.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.