Slip on groove coupling with multiple sealing gasket

• US 10,047,885 B2
• Filed: 08/27/2015
• Issued: 08/14/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 06/30/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: ASC Engineered Solutions LLC
• Original Assignee: Anvil International Incorporated (Mueller Water Products Incorporated)
• Inventors: Vandal, Peter Joseph, Compton, Douglas
• Primary Examiner(s): Bochna, David
• Application Number:
  US14/837,475
• Publication Number:
  US 20150369405A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,083 Days
• Field of Search: 285112, 285367, 285111, 285110, 285366, 285365, 285364, 285 23, 285411
• CPC Class Codes: B23P 19/04 for assembling or disassembling parts
• CPC Class Codes: B33Y 80/00 Products made by additive manufacturing
• CPC Class Codes: F16J 15/022 characterised by structure or material
• CPC Class Codes: F16L 17/04 with longitudinally split or divided sleeve
• CPC Class Codes: F16L 21/02 with elastic sealing rings between pipe and sleeve or between pipe and socket, e.g. with rolling or other prefabricated profiled rings F16L21/06, F16L21/08 take precedence ; sealing ring with radial ribs F16L17/025; sealing ring with axial lips F16L17/03; if adjustability is essential F16L27/00
• CPC Class Codes: F16L 21/03 placed in the socket before connection F16L21/022, F16L21/025 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: F16L 21/06 with a divided sleeve or ring clamping around the pipe-ends flanged joints F16L23/00; couplings of the quick-acting type F16L37/00
• CPC Class Codes: F16L 21/065 tightened by tangentially-arranged threaded pins
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 137/0447 Including joint or coupling
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/49826 Assembling or joining
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/49872 Confining elastic part in socket

Abstract

Couplings and gaskets are disclosed. Couplings may include an upper housing, a lower housing, at least one fastening device coupling the upper housing to the lower housing, and a gasket positioned within the upper and lower housings, the gasket including two primary seals and a rib protruding from an inner surface of the gasket and between the two primary seals.

Claims

1. A coupling for joining a first pipe and a second pipe, the coupling comprising:

an upper housing comprising a first key at a first axial end configured to engage within a groove of the first pipe and a second key at a second axial end configured to engage within a groove of the second pipe;

a lower housing comprising a first key at a first axial end configured to engage within the groove of the first pipe and a second key at a second axial end configured to engage within the groove of the second pipe;

at least one fastening device coupling the upper housing to the lower housing; and

a gasket positioned within the upper and lower housings, the gasket including

two primary seals, each primary seal formed on an outer edge of the gasket, and a rib protruding from an inner surface of the gasket and between the two primary seals, the rib defining a sealing surface contactable with an exterior surface of the first pipe when the first key of each of the upper housing and the lower housing is engaged within the groove of the first pipe and the second key of each of the upper housing and the lower housing is engaged within the groove of the second pipe,

wherein the sealing surface defines a first axially outer edge and a second axially outer edge,

wherein the rib further defines a cylindrical section facing radially inward, the cylindrical section being cylindrical when the at least one fastening device is in an untightened condition, the cylindrical section defined between the first axially outer edge and the second axially outer edge,

wherein the rib further comprises a secondary seal, the secondary seal configured to contact the exterior surface of the first pipe and the exterior surface of the second pipe when the first pipe and the second pipe are joined end-to-end,

the coupling adapted to slide over the first pipe such that the at least a portion of the first pipe extends axially beyond each outer edge of the gasket while the coupling remains in an assembled state, the coupling further adapted to join and seal the first pipe and the second pipe while the coupling remains in an assembled state.

2. The coupling of claim 1, wherein an innermost diameter of the gasket is larger than an outer diameter of the first pipe and the second pipe when the at least one fastening device is in an untightened condition.

3. The coupling of claim 1, wherein each primary seal includes a gripping extension.

4. The coupling of claim 1, wherein each primary seal has a rounded interior end.

5. The coupling of claim 1, wherein the cylindrical section covers a seam defined between the first pipe and the second pipe when the first pipe and the second pipe are joined end-to-end.

6. The coupling of claim 1, wherein an innermost diameter of the gasket is defined by the secondary seal, and wherein an inner diameter of the cylindrical section is greater than the innermost diameter of the secondary seal.