Pipe clamp means

• US 4,403,378 A
• Filed: 12/07/1981
• Issued: 09/13/1983
• Est. Priority Date: 12/07/1981
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Flynn Enterprises LLC
• Original Assignee: EMCO Industries Incorporated
• Inventors: Engman, Arnold B.
• Primary Examiner(s): Hafer, Robert A.
• Application Number:
  US06/327,899
• Time in Patent Office: 645 Days
• Field of Search: 24/243 E, 24/277, 24/23 W, 24/20 CW, 285/199, 285/420, 228/142
• US Class Current: 24/277
• CPC Class Codes: F01N 13/1805 Fixing exhaust manifolds, exhaust pipes or pipe sections to each other, to engine or to vehicle body pipe joints in general F16L; fixing auxiliaries in motor vehicles in general B60K
• CPC Class Codes: F16L 25/04 comprising a collar or ring having a threaded pin rigid with the pipe-encircling member
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 24/1437 Both ends threaded

Abstract

A clamp for securing pipe sections together comprising a saddle portion having a straight back portion, and opposite side portions having semi-circular openings therein. A U-shaped bolt has its ends extending through said back portion with nuts threaded thereon to draw the bolt towards the saddle portion. A radially disposed slot is disposed at the apex of each semi-circular opening to permit said back portion to deflect as said semi-circular openings conform to the perimeter of a pipe as said U-shaped bolt is drawn towards said saddle portion.

Claims

1. A clamp for securing telescopic positioned pipe sections together, comprising,

a saddle portion being U-shaped in cross-section and having a straight back portion, and opposite side portions,

each side portion having semi-circular openings adapted to engage a portion of a pipe perimeter,

a U-shaped bolt means having opposite ends and being positioned to form a pipe-receiving aperature with said semi-circular openings,

said back portion having apertures to receive the ends of said U-shaped bolt means, tightening means on the ends of said bolt means to draw said U-shaped bolt means towards said saddle portion,

a radially disposed slot having parallel opposite sides and an arcuate bottom, said slot being located at the apex of each of said semi-circular openings to facilitate the deflection of said back portion and to facilitate the conformation of said semi-circular openings to pipe sections extending through said pipe-receiving aperture as said tightening means draws said U-shaped bolt means towards said saddle portion to partially collapse said slot.