Fast action self locking threaded connector with right and left hand threads

Claim 1

A FAST ACTION THREADED CONNECTOR UTILIZING INNER AND OUTER THREADED MEMBERS AND AN INTERVENING THREADED SLEEVE HAVING INNER AND OUTER THREADS ADAPTED TO MATE WITH THE THREADS RESPECTIVELY OF SAID INNER AND OUTER THREADED MEMBERS, ONE PAIR OF SAID MATING THREADS BEING LEFT HAND AND THE OTHER PAIR OF MATING THREADS BEING RIGHT HAND, AND ONE OF SAID PAIRS OF MATING THREADS ON ONE OF SAID MEMBERS AND SAID SLEEVE BEING CUT AWAY TO THE ROOTS THEREOF ON SAID MEMBER AND SAID SLEEVE A CIRCUMFERENTIAL DISTANCE AT LEAST EQUAL TO THE REMAINING THREAD PORTIONS ON SAID MEMBER AND SAID SLEEVE ALONG A PLURALITY OF CIRCUMFERENTIALLY SPACED STRIPS EXTENDING AXIALLY OF SAID MEMBER AND SAID SLEEVE WHEREBY SAID SLEEVE IS FREELY MOVABLE AXIALLY OF SAID ONE MEMBER WHEN THE THREADS OF THE LATTER ARE ALIGNED WITH THE CUT AWAY STRIPS OF SAID SLEEVE; STOP MEANS AT THE TRAILING ENDS OF THE PARTIAL THREADS OF SAID ONE MEMBER AND SAID SLEEVE ENGAGEABLE WITH THE LEADING ENDS OF THE PARTIAL THREADS OF THE OTHER OF SAID SLEEVE AND SAID ONE MEMBER TO PREVENT FURTHER RELATIVE ROTARY MOVEMENT BETWEEN SAID SLEEVE AND SAID ONE MEMBER AFTER SAID THREADS HAVE BECOME FULLY MESHED AND SUCH ENGAGEMENT HAS TAKEN PLACE; SAID SLEEVE BEING SLIT IN A THIN WALLED SECTION THEREOF TO PROVIDE A TANG DEFLECTED SLIGHTLY IN A RADIAL DIRECTION TO PROJECT RELATIVE TO THE SURFACE OF THE SLEEVE HAVING THE FULL THREADS THEREON INTO ENGAGEMENT WITH THE MATING THREAD SURFACE OF THE OTHER MEMBER HAVING THE FULL THREADS THEREON TO ENGAGE THE THREADS MATING THEREWITH WITH FRICTIONAL DRAG AND IN AN AMOUNT RELATED TO THE DEFLECTION OF SAID TANG, THE FREE END OF SAID TANG BEING FORMED TO SLIDABLY ENGAGE THE MATING THREADS OF SAID OTHER THREADED MEMBER HAVING THE THREAD SURFACE THEREON WHICH IS NOT CUT AWAY.