Plug retainer
CA 2009235 C · Owner: The Babcock & Wilcox Company · Inventors: Klahn, Francis C.
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
Open the CIPO recordAbstract From the Canadian patent
A plug retainer for a tube plug. The plug head and inboard end of the plug are captured by a locking cup and cap screw. The locking cup is threadably engaged in the open end of the tube plug. The cap screw shank extends through a bore in the locking cup and is threadably engaged with the mandrel in the tube plug. Compression rings on the locking cup and cap screw seal the locking cup to the tube plug and the cap screw to the locking cup to prevent leakage. The locking cup is crimped on the cap screw by the use of flutes on the cap screw head.
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Why it's free to use
- Filed February 2, 1990 and granted September 6, 1994. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended February 2, 2010.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by February 2, 2012.
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