Pipe bracket

• US 3,944,264 A
• Filed: 01/06/1975
• Issued: 03/16/1976
• Est. Priority Date: 01/06/1975
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies Corporation
• Original Assignee: Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies Corporation
• Inventors: Mong, William K., Temple, Fred
• Primary Examiner(s): Callaghan, Thomas F.
• Application Number:
  US05/538,597
• Time in Patent Office: 435 Days
• Field of Search: 285/137 R, 285/24, 285/25, 285/64, 285/158, 285/161, 285/63, 137/349, 137/348, 137/347, 137/350, 248/56, 248/68, 403/177, 403/202
• US Class Current: 285/124.4
• CPC Class Codes: F16L 19/0653 the ring being rotatably connected to one of the connecting parts
• CPC Class Codes: F16L 39/00 Joints or fittings for double-walled or multi-channel pipes or pipe assemblies
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 137/6873 End of car

Abstract

A novel, low-cost pipe bracket which is provided with drill holes instead of pre-cast passageways as formed in a casting type bracket, said drill holes being disposed to register with the connection ports of any fluid pressure operable device to be mounted on the bracket. A pipe connector, either of the screw-threaded or butt weld type is placed in each drill hole and secured therein by a flange formed on the connector being drawn up against a shoulder formed in the drill hole when the valve device is secured to the pipe bracket. Thus, when the pipes have been connected to the pipe connectors, the valve device may be removed without disconnecting the pipes from the bracket.

Claims

1. A pipe bracket for accommodating pipe connections to a fluid pressure operable device having a plurality of ports via which fluid pressure may flow to and from the device, said pipe bracket comprising:

a. a base plate portion on one side of which the fluid pressure operable device may be secured and having formed therein a similar number of transverse bores correspondingly located as the ports in the device so as to register therewith, respectively;

b. respective pipe connectors inserted a limited coaxial distance into said bores from said one side of said plate portion, each of said connectors having a stud portion protruding beyond the other side of said plate portion and to which a pipe may be connected;

c. a locking plate having a plurality of openings corresponding in number and position to said stud portions so as to fit thereon in a locking position in which said pipe connectors are locked against rotation in said transverse bores, respectively,

d. said openings each having internal flat surfaces which, in the locking position of said locking plate, engage complementary flat surfaces formed externally on each of said stud portions; and

e. means securable on said stud portions for retaining said locking plate in its said locking position.

2. A pipe bracket, as set forth in claim 1, wherein said stud portions of said pipe connectors are externally threaded and said means securable thereon comprise respective screw-threaded nuts.

3. A pipe bracket, as set forth in claim 1, wherein said locking plate is secured in its said locking position against said other side of said base plate portion.