Sealing plug
AssigneeROLLS-ROYCE plc
InventorsGordon C. Cooper, Margaret L. Dawson
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Abstract
A sealing plug assembly includes a plug and a housing , the plug and the housing including co-operating [means] structures whereby they may be secured together, the plug including two circumferentially extending grooves within which O ring seals are located, and the housing [including an aperture] having a bore within which the plug is adapted to be located, the housing also including a spring loaded radially extending pin which projects into the [aperture] bore and which is adapted to project into either of the grooves within the plug if an O ring is omitted, thus preventing the plug being secured with the housing by the co-operating [means] structures .
Claims5
A sealing plug assembly comprising a plug member [and] having a radially outermost cylindrical surface, said surface defining at least one circumferentially extending groove for receipt of an O ring seal therein, a housing [the] for said plug member, said housing defining a bore for location of said plug [and housing including] member therein, co-operating means on said plug member and said housing whereby [the] said plug member may be secured [together the radially outermost cylindrical surface of the plug including at least one circumferentially extending groove within which an O ring seal may be disposed, the housing including an aperture within which the plug is adapted to be located] within said housing, said housing further including at least one radially extending pin moveable between a first position projecting into said base of said housing and a second position in which it does not so project, said pin being adapted to locate within [the] said at least one circumferentially extending groove when [the] said O ring is omitted from the assembly [such as] thereby to prevent [the] said plug member being secured within [the] said housing by [the] said co-operating means.
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