Patent ID: 6095571
Filing Date: 2000-08-01
Classification: F16L,Y10T

Abstract:
A tubing connector for sealingly engaging an end portion of a tubing adapted to serve as a conduit for pressurized fluids comprising:a rigid tubular body having a fitting end, a cylindrical connector end that is tapered to facilitate insertion into the tubing and a bore that extends from the fitting end to the connector end, the connector end having at least one annular groove on an external periphery thereof and a elastic seal ring received in the annular groove, the annular groove having a depth slightly greater than a thickness of the seal ring and a width greater than a width of the seal ring; andan annular clamp adapted to be compressed around an outer periphery of an end of the tubing in a flat band to exert an even radial pressure and retain the tubing connector within the tubing after the tubing connector is inserted therein, whereby the seal ring is compressed inwardly by an inner periphery of the tubing and expands axially in the groove when the annular clamp is compressed.