Plumbing structure

• US 3,884,438 A
• Filed: 11/03/1972
• Issued: 05/20/1975
• Est. Priority Date: 11/03/1972
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Duane D. Logsdon
• Original Assignee: Duane D. Logsdon
• Inventors: Logsdon, Duane D.
• Primary Examiner(s): Frazier, Roy D.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Bonck, Rodney H.
• Application Number:
  US05/303,591
• Time in Patent Office: 928 Days
• Field of Search: 248/58,59,74R,74A,74B,74PB,68R,221,73,274,230,62,65,70,225 137/343,356,357,360 211/94 4/211
• US Class Current: 248/59
• CPC Class Codes: F16L 3/00 Supports for pipes, cables or protective tubing, e.g. hangers, holders, clamps, cleats, clips, brackets anchors for holding pipes on or under the ground F16L1/06; sound-damping supports F16L55/035; supports for insulated pipes F16L59/135

Abstract

A plumbing structure or '"'"''"'"''"'"''"'"'tree'"'"''"'"''"'"''"'"' is disclosed that consists of an assembly of self-supporting pipes, a series and/or assembly of smaller non-self-supporting pipes located alongside of the assembly of the self-supporting pipes and a series of connecting structures extending between the two types of pipes so as to hold the smaller pipes in desired positions as construction progresses. Each of the connecting structures preferably includes a snap-on clip means engaging one of the self-supporting pipes, a rigid rod extending from each of the clip means and a hanger means engaging one of the smaller pipes mounted on the rigid rod of such a connecting structure. The connecting structures are designed for versatility of use in a number of different ways so that the non-self-supporting pipe may be mounted in any desired, convenient manner on the self-supporting pipe.

Claims

1. A plumbing structure useful in the construction of a building which comprises:

an assembly of connected self-supporting pipes located in a flat plane, a series of smaller non-self-supporting pipes located adjacent to and spaced from said self-supporting pipes in a flat plane adjacent to and extending alongside of said first mentioned plane, a series of connecting structures extending between said smaller pipe and said self-supporting pipe so as to hold said smaller pipe in a desired position with respect to said self-supporting pipes;

said connecting structures being located generally in the interstices between said self-supporting and said non-self-supporting pipes in said planes, each of said connecting structures including;

a. a snap-on clip means having curved arms resiliently engaging one of said self-supporting pipes, b. a hanger means engaging one of said smaller non-self-supporting pipes and c. a rigid rod which is integral with each of said clip means and which supports said hanger means associated therewith, each of said rods having a cruciform shape and having a uniform cross-sectional configuration extending along its length, each of said rods having parallel flat surfaces extending along its length located around its exterior, said clip means being capable of being snapped on said self-supporting pipe so as to be secured to said self-supporting pipe, a portion of each of said hanger means is shaped to conform to the cruciform shape of the rod with which it is associated so as to engage the rod with which it is associated so as to stabilize said hanger means upon said rods, said rods extending relative to said clip means so as to be generally within the same plane as said self-supporting pipes, said hanger means engaging said non-self-supporting pipes at various locations along the lengths of said rods so as to hold said series of non-self-supporting pipes in the plane within which said non-self-supporting pipes are located and being capable of being located at various positions along said rods, each of said hanger means being capable of being fitted against and secured to the rod with which it is associated in a plurality of different positions relative to the length of such rod and around the exterior of such rod.

2. A connecting structure for use in connecting two different pipes which are located in two different parallel planes to one another which comprises:

a clip means having a base and curved resilient arms extending from said base which are adapted to resiliently engage more than 180* around the exterior of a first pipe in one of said planes, a rigid rod having a symmetrical cruciform shape extending from said base of said clip means, said clip means and said rod being integrally formed with one another, hanger means for engaging a second pipe in the other of said planes, said hanger means being capable of being secured to said rigid rod along the length of said rigid rod so as to hold said second pipE in adjacent to said first pipe, said hanger means including means for engaging the exterior of said rod in a plurality of positions around the exterior of said rod and along the length of said rod so as to stabilize said hanger means upon said rod.