Post connector
CA 2040723 A1 · Owner: Kolvites, Albert · Inventors: Kolvites, Albert; Welsch, John H.
Overview
Its claims, description and drawings are in the Canadian Patents Database.
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A connector sleeve device for connecting together first and second posts, comprises a sleeve having an outer surface dimensioned to be received within the interior surfaces of the first and second posts. A first flexible protrusion is formed in a mid-region of the sleeve and has an abutment surface adapted to abut an end surface of the first post when the sleeve is received therein. The contact between the abutment surface and the end surface prevents the sleeve from being moved further into the second post. A second flexible protrusion is formed in the mid-region of the sleeve and has a second abutment surface adapted to abut an end surface of the second post when the sleeve is inserted …
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Why it's free to use
- Filed April 17, 1991. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended April 17, 2011.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by April 17, 2013.
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