Patent ID: 6988746

Claim:
A raintight, threadless fitting for connecting metal non-threaded electrical conduits comprising: a hollow cylindrical housing means having a bore operable to receive an un-threaded end of at least one electrical conduit therein, such bore having a stop means therein operable to limit the ingress of such electrical conduit into said housing means when such conduit is inserted such bore; thread means disposed at an end of said cylindrical housing means; shoulder means formed at said end of said cylindrical housing means; compression ring means at said end of said fitting operable to slip over end of such conduit being joined with said fitting, said compression ring having a solid ring portion and a series of segmented projections extending axially from said solid ring portion tapering from the inner diameter of said compression ring means to the outside diameter of said solid ring portion thereof; elastomer sealing means between said solid ring portion and said shoulder means operable to compress said sealing means between the fitting and a piece of such conduit inserted into said fitting as said compression ring means abuts against said shoulder means to form a raintight seal there between; and nut means having threads operable to engage said thread means at said end of said housing means, said nut means having an aperture operable to slip over such conduit being joined to said fitting, said mating threads operable to advance said nut means against said series of said segmented projections of said compressing ring means to axially drive said solid ring of said compression means against said shoulder means, compressing said sealing means between said fitting and such conduit inserted in said fitting and to wedge said projections against such conduit to mechanically fix such conduit in said fitting.