US 8,757,667 B2Granted

Adapters and connector assemblies for flow managing apparatuses

AssigneeIpex Technologies Inc.

InventorGuillaume Hugo Marquis-Martin

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Abstract

A connector for a flow managing device in fluid communication with an outlet conduit is disclosed. The connector can comprise a receiving member, an engaging member, and an adapter. The receiving member can be secured to the adapter, which can be secured to a side wall of a basin near an outlet coupled to the outlet conduit. The adapter can comprise a curvature plate having a curvature that complements a curvature of the side wall. The adapter can further comprise an adapter bore through the curvature plate and an adapter conduit extending from the curvature plate and at least partially overlapping the adapter bore. The flow managing apparatus can be secured to the engaging member, which can be engaged with the receiving member. Fluid from the basin can flow through the flow managing device, the engaging member, the receiving member, and the adapter and into the outlet conduit.

Claims17

Dependent claims

A connector in fluid communication with an outlet in a basin, the basin having a first curvature, the connector comprising:

an adapter, comprising:
a curvature plate secured to the basin, the curvature plate comprising a second curvature that substantially complements the first curvature of the basin;
an adapter bore through the curvature plate that at least partially overlaps the outlet in the basin;
and
an adapter conduit that at least partially overlaps the adapter bore and extends from the curvature plate;
a receiving member, comprising:
a connector plate comprising a first receiving portion, a second receiving portion and a third receiving portion;
a receiving bore through the connector plate;
and
a receiving conduit that at least partially overlaps the receiving bore and extends from the connector plate, the receiving conduit secured to the adapter conduit of the adapter to form a first fluid-tight connection;
and
an engaging member, comprising:
an engaging bore through the engaging member;
and
an outer edge comprising a substantially triangular shape forming a first engaging portion, a second engaging portion, and a third engaging portion, each engaging portion is disposed in and received by its repective receiving portion such that the engaging bore at least partially overlaps the receiving bore.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 13/309,058Filed 1 Dec 2011 · continuation in part
Priority: 16 Jul 2010
Published: US 2012/0013118 A126 Apr 2012
Granted: 24 Jun 2014
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification13 codes

E03F 5/106
Accessories, e.g. flow regulators or cleaning devices: passive flow control devices, i.e. not moving during flow regulation
F16L 41/086
Joining pipes to walls or pipes, the joined pipe axis being perpendicular to the plane of a wall or to the axis of another pipe: fixed with screws
F16L 43/008
Bends; Siphons: made from plastic material
F15D 1/0015
Influencing flow of fluids: whirl chambers, e.g. vortex valves

Family

Application61/399,726Us provisional application · filed 16 Jul 2010
Application13/035,486Parent of this continuation-in-part · filed 25 Feb 2011
US 2012/0098254 A1Pre-grant publication · published 26 Apr 2012
US 8,511,714 B2Parent of this continuation-in-part
US 2012/0013118 A1Published application
US 8,757,667 B2This patent

From the US filing history. Foreign family members aren’t listed.