Mechanical tool for manipulating fittings and caps
CA 2039568 A1 · Owner: Ceccucci, Rudolph R. Jr. · Inventors: Ceccucci, Rudolph R. Jr.; Ceccucci, Rudolph R. Jr.
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
Open the CIPO recordAbstract From the Canadian patent
A mechanical tool for facilitating coupling and decoupling of hose fittings and caps to a plumbing outlet, such as a septic drain outlet on a recreational vehicle is disclosed. The tool includes a handle and two opposed branches extending from one end thereof. The free end of each branch has a slot therein sized to engagably receive one of the two diametrically opposed outwardly projecting lugs existing on a conventional drain hose fitting or drain cap. The branches are roughly spaced such that when in use the slotted free ends of the branches are capable of being adjusted to engagably receive the lugs. An adjustable biasing member susposed between the branches and a position so its not to …
Read the whole patent
Listed from its CIPO record in Patent Yard's archive of Canadian patents past their term. Its claims, description and drawings are in the CIPO record and on Google Patents, and the Claude kit works from them.
Why it's free to use
- Filed April 2, 1991. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended April 2, 2011.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by April 2, 2013.
- We check Canadian rights only. A patent in its family in another country could still be in force: check its family on Google Patents.
Timeline
Timeline From CIPO dates
Sources & verification
Official CIPO records
Everything on this page comes from the CIPO record linked above. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada.