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Device for cleaning a hose coupling

US4414701A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateJul 19, 1982
Grant dateNov 15, 1983
Priority date
Expiry dateJul 19, 2002

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
  • CPC primaryY10T29/49719
  • WIPO fieldChemical engineering
  • WIPO sectorChemistry

Abstract

A device for cleaning a hose coupling having external screw threads and an adjacent concentric, axially disposed face, the device having an externally graspable tubular element provided toward one end with internal, interrupted screw threads mating with the screw threads of the coupling and having an extension mounted on the tubular element for rotation relative to such element about the axis of its screw threads, the extension having a graspable portion projecting from the other end of the tubular element and a portion extended within the tubular element from such end and bearing a diametrically extended edge disposed for cleaning the face of the coupling when the tubular element has been screwed onto the coupling to clean the coupling screw threads with the interrupted screw threads.

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