Split slip nut and seal assembly for plumbing trap

Claim 1

A plumbing assembly such as a trap or similar installation including a first, outer, tubular member having a longitudinal passage therein, a second, inner, tubular member having a longitudinal passage therein and adapted to be received in the longitudinal passage of the outer tubular member, a male sleeve having external threads and being engaged on an end portion of the other tubular member, an annular seal made from flexible and deformable material received between an outer surface portion of the inner tubular member and an inner surface portion of the male sleeve, a split nut including two separable split sections each having projecting from opposite portions thereof lugs with the lugs of one section registering with the lugs of another section, fastener means securing the lugs of the split sections together as a unit, said split nut sections having matching internal threads engaged on the threads of the male sleeve, said split nut sections having internal surface portions pressing said seal into engagement between the male sleeve and the inner tubular member to secure the inner and outer tubular members together and to establish a seal therebetween, said fastener means being removable from said lugs to disassemble said split nut sections laterally of the tubular members, and said seal being split to enable removal from around the inner tubular member laterally thereof, and wherein said lugs of the split nut sections define a tapered surface on the exterior thereof and wherein said fastener means includes a sleeve having a tapered internal surface corresponding to and engaging the tapered surface of the lugs.