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Compressed gas regulator with torque limiting attachment knob

  • US 6,328,280 B1
  • Filed: 07/28/2000
  • Issued: 12/11/2001
  • Est. Priority Date: 07/28/2000
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A gas pressure regulator device comprising:

  • a body having a first aperture therethrough sized to receive a substantially rectangular pressure tank post valve, said body further including a mounting aperture having machining threads formed therein and in fluid communication with said first aperture, an inlet passage in fluid communication with said first aperture and an outlet passage in fluid communication with said inlet passage;

    regulator means disposed in said outlet passage for reducing gas pressure presented at said inlet passage, said regulator means supplying regulated gas pressure at said outlet passage;

    a threaded rod having a proximate end, a distal end and external threads formed on the lateral external surface thereof, said external threads mating with said machining threads of said mounting aperture, said proximate end of said rod being rotationally inserted into said mounting aperture of said body to secure said body to a pressure tank;

    a disk attached to said distal end of said threaded rod at the radial center of said disk, said rod extending perpendicularly from one surface of said disk; and

    a hollow cylindrical member having an open first end, an open second end, and having an internal diameter sized larger than said body, and wherein said first end of said cylindrical member is disposed over and around said body and said second end of said cylindrical member is attached to said disk.

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