Joseph F Auriemma

US Patent:

43324037, Jun 1, 1982

Filed:

Sep 12, 1980

Appl. No.:

6/186560

Inventors:

Joseph F. Auriemma - Point Pleasant NJ

Assignee:

Ciba-Geigy Corporation - Ardsley NY

International Classification:

F16L 500

US Classification:

285189

Abstract:

A securing device for attaching and holding a press plate spigot to a base member of a filter press. The device includes lugs which are received through openings in the spigot, the lugs being attached to the base member levers having a crank arm made up of protruding portions and a cam surface and having the protruding portions received in cutouts of the lugs so that levers are rotated about an arc for having the cam surfaces urge and hold the spigot against the base plate.