Visual Dictionary
Subscribe
The Visual
Virtual Human Body
Language:
English
French
Spanish
Look up an image:
Explore by theme
About the Visual
Books
Games
HOME
>
house
>
plumbing
>
fittings
>
mechanical connectors
mechanical connectors
Pipes joined using nuts and threaded metal parts; a gasket is inserted to tighten them, thus preventing leakage.
See mechanical connectors in :
french
|
spanish
compression fitting
Threaded part into which two tubes can be inserted; they are made watertight by a gasket tightened with a nut.
gasket
Washer made of metal or rubber compressed against the pipe to prevent leakage in the fitting.
connector
Threaded part joining two pipes.
nut
Metal part that screws onto the fitting so that the gasket can be tightened on the tube.
nuts
pipe A
pipe B