Coupling members for disconnectibly joining conduits

Claim 1

IN A CONDUIT COUPLING OF THE TYPE COMPRISING A STATIONARY COUPLING MEMBER AND A ROTATABLE COUPLING MEMBER ADAPTED TO BE OPPOSED END TO END, THE OPPOSED ENDS OF SAID COUPLING MEMBERS HAVING MUTUALLY ENGAGEABLE MEANS TO INTERLOCK THE SAME TOGETHER IN COUPLED RELATION WHEN THE ROTATABLE MEMBER IS ROTATED RELATIVE TO THE STATIONARY MEMBER, THE ROTATABLE MEMBER HAVING A VALVE PLUNGER AXIALLY SLIDABLE THEREIN AND NORMALLY DISPOSED TO CLOSE THE SAME AGAINST FLUID FLOW THERETHROUGH, SAID STATIONARY MEMBER ALSO HAVING AXIALLY MOVABLE SPRING BIASED VALVE MEANS TO NORMALLY CLOSE THE SAME AGAINST FLUID FLOW THERETHROUGH; THE COUPLING SO CHARACTERIZED, HAVING (1) A RING GEAR MOUNTED IN THE END OF THE ROTATABLE MEMBER WHICH OPPOSES THE STATIONARY MEMBER, MEANS TO INTERLOCK SAID RING GEAR TO THE STATIONARY MEMBER WHEN THE COUPLING MEMBERS ARE COUPLED TOGETHER, WHEREBY TO HOLD SAID RING GEAR STATIONARY RELATIVE TO ROTATIVE MOVEMENT OF THE ROTATABLE MEMBER, (2) PLANETARY GEAR TRANSMISSION MEANS MOUNTED IN CONNECTION WITH THE ROTATABLE MEMBER EXTERIORLY OF ITS VALVE PLUNGER AND ADAPTED TO BE ACTUATED BY SAID RING GEAR WHEN THE ROTATABLE MEMBER IS ROTATED, MEANS ACTUATED BY SAID PLANETARY GEAR TRANSMISSION MEANS TO CAUSE AXIAL OPENING MOVEMENT OF THE VALVE PLUNGER OF THE ROTATABLE MEMBER, WHEREBY TO EXERT AXIAL THRUST AGAINST THE VALVE MEANS OF THE ADJOINED STATIONARY MEMBER TO OPEN THE LATTER, AND THEREBY PERMIT FLUID FLOW THROUGH THE JOINED COUPLING MEMBERS.