IMPROVE- MENTS IN OR RELATING TO THE AFFIXING OF FLEXIBLE OR OTHER TUBING TO COUPLINGS, ALSO APPLICABLE TO OTHER ANALOGOUS PURPOSES
Year: 1882

page_text: LETTERS PATENT to James Hunt and Thomas Evans Mitton both of
Birmingham in the County of Warwick for an Invention of IMPROVE-
MENTS IN OR RELATING TO THE AFFIXING OF FLEXIBLE OR OTHER TUBING
TO COUPLINGS, ALSO APPLICABLE TO OTHER ANALOGOUS PURPOSES
PROVISIONAL SPECIFICATION left by the said James Hunt and Thomas
Evans Mitton at the Office of the Commissioners of Patents on the
21st November 1882.
JAMES HUNT and THOMAS EVANS MITTON both of Birmingham in the County
of Warwick "IMPROVEMENTS IN OR RELATING TO THE AFFIXING OF FLEXIBLE
OB OTHER TUBING TO COUPLINGS ALSO APPLICABLE ΤΟ OTHER ANALOGOUS
PURPOSES
"
This our Invention relates to the construction and arrangement of the parts of
couplings and other fittings, so that the flexible or other tubing can be attached
to, or detached from the same, in a simple and efficacious manner.
We will describe our Invention as applied to the attaching or connecting of
flexible tubes to couplings.
The coupling proper consists of a cased body made of brass, or any other
suitable material The interior or main body to which the tubing is attached is
provided with a bulge or swell at or near the top by preference, and is encased
with a ring of metal, that is attached to it and to which another ring is secured, at
one end, this having a diminished aperture at the other, through which the tubing
passes, which when tightened by screwing in a well known manner, or other
suitable means grips the tubing between itself and the main body before described
securely holding it, and forming a water tight joint.
The above describes the mode of connecting or affixing the tube to the one end,
but can be arranged for both ends of a coupling, or to a cock, pipe of metal, or
other substance and such other purpose as tubing, flexible or otherwise may be
required to be affixed.

page_text: SPECIFICATION in pursuance of the conditions of the Letters Patent filed
by the said James Hunt and Thomas Evans Mitton in the Great Seal Patent
Office on the 19th May 1883.
JAMES HUNT and THOMAS EVANS MITTON both of Birmingham in the County
of Warwick "IMPROVEMENTS IN OR RELATING TO THE AFFIXING OF FLEXIBLE
OR OTHER TUBING TO COUPLINGS ALSO APPLICABLE TO OTHER ANALOGOUS
PURPOSES
"
This our invention relates to the construction and arrangement of the parts of
couplings and other fittings so that the flexible or other tubing can be attached to
or detached from the same in a simple and efficacious manner.
We will describe our invention as applied to the attaching or connecting of.
flexible tubes to couplings..
T
The coupling proper consists of a cased body made of brass or any other suitable
material. The interior or main body to which the tubing is attached is provided
with a bulge or swell at or near the top by. preference and is encased with a ring.
of metal that is attached to it and to which another ring is secured at one end this
-having-a-diminished aperture at the other, through which the tubing passes which
when tightened by screwing in a well known manner or other suitable means
grips the tubing between itself and the main body before described securely holding
it and forming a watertight joint.
The above describes the mode of connecting or affixing the tube to the one end
but can be arranged for both ends of a coupling, or to a cock, pipe of metal, or other
substance and such other purpose as tubing flexible or otherwise may be required
to be affixed.
And in order that this our said invention may be more clearly understood we
will proceed to describe the same with reference to the annexed drawings
Figs. 1, 2 are views in elevation partly sectional, 3, 4 views in elevation
Bectional
The same letters of reference indicate the same parts in the several figures of the
drawing
.
Fig 1A is the inner body provided with the bulge or Bwell B, connected to C,
(one part of the body proper) by screwing or other suitable means, D we will
designate a ring also connected to C and provided with a diminished aperture E
this ring is first adjusted upon the flexible pipe before the connection is formed
and then by screwing down the said pipe is gripped by E and compressed upon B
thus forming a secure joint and simple in application.-0, is the flexible or other
tubing
The description given of Fig. 1 suffices for Figs. 2, 3, 4, which simply illustrate
our invention applied to analogous purposes.
Having thus specified the object and nature of this our said invention and the
manner in which the same is or may be performed or carried into effect never-
theless we wish to observe that we do not limit ourselves to the shape or configu-
ration or arrangement of parts or to the mode of connecting the several parts of
the body as various modifications may be made without affecting the character or
principle of this our said invention.
.
What we claim as new and original and desire to be secured to us by the herein-
before in part recited Letters Patent for "Improvements in or relating to the
affixing of flexible or other tubing to couplings also applicable to other analogous
purposes are
"

page_text: The general construction and arrangement of the bulge or swell B in combi-
nation with the diminished aperture E for the purposes above set forth and described
or any mere modification thereof.
In witness whereof we the said James Hunt and Thomas Evans Mitton have
hereunto set our hands and seals this nineteenth day of May in the year of
our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighty three.