Coupling structure for tube

• US 6,435,567 B2
• Filed: 01/17/2001
• Issued: 08/20/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 01/18/2000
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Totaku Industries, Inc. (Nagase & Company Limited)
• Original Assignee: Totaku Industries, Inc. (Nagase & Company Limited)
• Inventors: Koizumi, Yoshiyuki, Kikumori, Yasuhiro
• Primary Examiner(s): Nicholson, Eric K.
• Application Number:
  US09/760,729
• Publication Number:
  US 20010008342A1
• Time in Patent Office: 580 Days
• Field of Search: 285/903, 285/319, 285/921, 285/140.1, 285/210
• US Class Current: 285/319
• CPC Class Codes: F16L 25/0036 Joints for corrugated pipes
• CPC Class Codes: F16L 25/0045 of the quick-acting type
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 285/903 Corrugated
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 285/921 Snap-fit

Abstract

A coupling structure for a tube having first and second tube members coupled to each other includes a come-out preventing member adapted to be held at an outer periphery of the first tube member and restricted in its movement in a longitudinal direction of the first tube member at a tip end portion on a coupling side of the first tube member, and an engaging member adapted to protrude from an end portion on a coupling side of the second tube member. The come-out preventing member and the engaging member are respectively provided with first engaging portions and second engaging portions to engage the come-out preventing member and the engaging member to each other and to prevent the first and second tube members from being separated.

Claims

1. A coupling structure for a tube having first and second tube members, said structure comprising:

a come-out preventing member adapted to be held at an outer periphery of said first tube member; and

an engaging member adapted to protrude from an end portion on a coupling side of said second tube member,

wherein said come-out preventing member and said engaging member are respectively provided with first and second engaging portions to engage said come-out preventing member and said engaging member to each other and to prevent said first and second tube members from being separated from each other, and

wherein at least one of said first and second engaging portions has elasticity with respect to a radial direction of said tube or elastically supported so that said first and second engaging portions are placed in an engaged state to each other due to the elasticity of said at least one of said first and second engaging portions when said come-out preventing member is pushed into said engaging member,

wherein said engaging member is threadedly engaged with said second tube member so as to be separatable from said second tube member in a state where said engaging member and said come-out preventing member are engaged with each other.

2. The coupling structure for a tube according to claim 1, further comprising:

a packing adapted to be housed in a packing housing portion of said second tube member in a state where said packing is fitted on an outer periphery of said tip end portion on said coupling side of said first tube member,

wherein said come-out preventing member is attached to an inner side of said packing away from said tip end portion in said longitudinal direction of said first tube member.

3. The coupling structure for a tube according to claim 2, wherein the tip end of said come-out preventing member is brought in contact with an end surface of said packing, to thereby support said packing from a rear portion side thereof along a pushing direction when said packing is pushed within said packing housing portion of said second tube member.

4. The coupling structure for a tube according to claim 1, wherein said first tube member comprises a spiral corrugated tube having a spiral-shaped projection on the outer periphery thereof, wherein said spiral corrugated tube is arranged in a manner that said come-out preventing member meshes with said spiral-shaped projection to restrict the movement of said come-out preventing member in the longitudinal direction of said tube member.

5. The coupling structure for a tube according to claim 1, wherein said engaging member is threadedly engaged with and attached to said end portion on said coupling side of said second tube member when said engaging member is coupled with said come-out preventing member, and wherein said engaging member can be separated from said end portion on said coupling side by releasing the threadedly engaged state.

7. The coupling structure for a tube according to claim 1, wherein said first tube member comprises a cable protection tube for an electric wire cable and is buried within ground, and said second tube member comprises a conduit opening member which is buried in a side wall of a hand hole made of concrete and serves to introduce said cable passed through said first tube member within said hand hole.

8. The coupling structure for a tube according to claim 4, wherein said first tube member is a cable protection tube for an electric wire cable and is buried within ground, and said second tube member is a conduit opening member which is buried in a side wall of a hand hole made of concrete and serves to introduce said cable passed through said first tube member within said hand hole.

9. The coupling structure for a tube according to claim 5, wherein said first tube member is a cable protection tube for an electric wire cable and is buried within ground, and said second tube member is a conduit opening member which is buried in a side wall of a hand hole made of concrete and serves to introduce said cable passed through said first tube member within said hand hole.

11. The coupling structure for a tube according to claim 1, wherein said engaging member is threadedly engaged with said second tube member so as to be separatable from said second tube member by rotating said engaging member relative to said second tube member in a state where said engaging member and said come-out preventing member are engaged to each other.

12. The coupling structure for a tube according to claim 1, wherein said first tube member comprises a spiral corrugated tube having a spiral-shaped projection on the outer periphery thereof, wherein said spiral corrugated tube is arranged in a manner that said come-out preventing member meshes with said spiral-shaped projection to restrict the movement of said come-out preventing member in the longitudinal direction of said tube member.

13. The coupling structure for a tube according to claim 2, wherein said first tube member comprises a spiral corrugated tube having a spiral-shaped projection on the outer periphery thereof, and wherein said spiral corrugated tube is arranged in a manner that said come-out preventing member meshes with said spiral-shaped projection to restrict the movement of said come-out preventing member in the longitudinal direction of said tube member.

14. The coupling structure for a tube according to claim 3, wherein said first tube member comprises a spiral corrugated tube having a spiral-shaped projection on the outer periphery thereof, and wherein said spiral corrugated tube is arranged in a manner that said come-out preventing member meshes with said spiral-shaped projection to restrict the movement of said come-out preventing member in the longitudinal direction of said tube member.

15. The coupling structure for a tube according to claim 1, wherein said engaging member is threadedly engaged with and attached to said end portion on said coupling side of said second tube member when said engaging member is coupled with said come-out preventing member, and wherein said engaging member can be separated from said end portion on said coupling side by releasing the threadedly engaged state.

16. The coupling structure for a tube according to claim 2, wherein said engaging member is threadedly engaged with and attached to said end portion on said coupling side of said second tube member when said engaging member is coupled with said come-out preventing member, and wherein said engaging member can be separated from said end portion on said coupling side by releasing the threadedly engaged state.

17. The coupling structure for a tube according to claim 2, wherein said engaging member is threadedly engaged with and attached to said end portion on said coupling side of said second tube member when said engaging member is coupled with said come-out preventing member, and wherein said engaging member can be separated from said end portion on said coupling side by releasing the threadedly engaged state.

18. The coupling structure for a tube according to claim 1, wherein said first tube member comprises a cable protection tube for an electric wire cable and is buried within ground, and said second tube member comprises a conduit opening member which is buried in a side wall of a hand hole made of concrete and serves to introduce said cable passed through said first tube member within said hand hole.

19. The coupling structure for a tube according to claim 2, wherein said first tube member comprises a cable protection tube for an electric wire cable and is buried within ground, and said second tube member comprises a conduit opening member which is buried in a side wall of a hand hole made of concrete and serves to introduce said cable passed through said first tube member within said hand hole.

20. The coupling structure for a tube according to claim 1, wherein said come-out preventing member is held at said outer periphery of said first tube member such that said come-out preventing member is immovable in a longitudinal direction of said first tube member.

6. The coupling structure for a tube according to claim 6, wherein said engaging member is threadedly engaged with and attached to said end portion on said coupling side of said second tube member when said engaging member is coupled with said come-out preventing member, and wherein said engaging member can be separated from said end portion on said coupling side by releasing the threadedly engaged state.

10. The coupling structure for a tube according to claim 6, wherein said first tube member is a cable protection tube for an electric wire cable and is buried within ground, and said second tube member is a conduit opening member which is buried in a side wall of a hand hole made of concrete and serves to introduce said cable passed through said first tube member within said hand hole.