THREADED PIPE CONNECTIONS AND SOCKETS FOR MAKING THE SAME IN SITU

• Main Authors: LAWRENCE, BENJAMIN L, MASON, CHRISTOPHER W, BOBO, DAVID A, PAIGE, RONALD DALE, LATHAM, RICHARD D
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French
• Published: 28.10.2018
• Subjects: MACHINE TOOLS; METAL-WORKING NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; THREAD CUTTING; TRANSPORTING; WORKING OF SCREWS, BOLT HEADS, OR NUTS, IN CONJUNCTIONTHEREWITH

A pipe socket for making a threaded pipe connection that includes: a socket body defining a threaded portion, a cavity and a stop; an O-ring positioned within the cavity; and a plurality of interrupted series of tapping threads defined on an internal surface of the socket body in the threaded portion. The cavity is configured to receive a pipe and the stop is configured to stop a pipe received within the cavity. Each of the interrupted series of tapping threads is circumferentially equidistant from the adjacent interrupted series of tapping threads. Further, each of the interrupted series of tapping threads comprises threads arranged axially on the internal surface of the socket body for forming threads on a pipe received within the cavity.