US Patent Issued to EPSILON COMPOSITE on Sept. 8 for "Device for mechanical attachment to the end of a tube" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,729,703, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to EPSILON COMPOSITE (Gaillan en Medoc, France).

"Device for mechanical attachment to the end of a tube" was invented by Jose Portoles (Queyrac, France), Denis Ferrer (Vertheuil, France) and Maxime Dos Santos (Lesparre-Medoc, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An attachment device includes a conical insert in the form of a truncated cone, an internal ring which is provided with a recess in the form of a truncated cone the diameter of which narrows in the direction of the interior of the tube and the angle of which is equal to the angle of the truncated cone of the conical insert, and an externa...