Patent ID: 6361084
Filing Date: 2002-03-26
Classification: F16L

Abstract:
An adjustable plumbing connector comprising:a connector sleeve having a structure-attachment flange on a flange end, a sleeve seal surface proximate a seal end and a nut-retainer ring on an outside periphery of the connector sleeve intermediate the structure-attachment flange and the seal end; a connector nut contained rotatably on the outside periphery of the connector sleeve with the nut-retainer ring buttressing a retainer wall that is intermediate a circumferentially sleeve-engagement inside periphery and a larger circumferentially straight-threaded inside periphery of the connector nut; straight inside threading on the inside periphery of the connector nut that is matched to straight outside threading of a predetermined fluid-controller sleeve; an inside periphery of the connector sleeve and an inside periphery of the predetermined fluid-controller sleeve having slidable clearance of an outside periphery of an intended pipe; the predetermined fluid-controller sleeve having a seal end with a fluid- controller seal surface that is positionable oppositely from the sleeve seal surface collinearly to the intended pipe; a seal ring that encompasses the outside periphery of the intended pipe intermediate the sleeve seal surface and the fluid-controller seal surface; and the seal ring having sealable contact with at least the outside periphery of the intended pipe, the sleeve seal surface and the fluid-controller seal surface.