Pipe-clip

• US 5,384,936 A
• Filed: 09/10/1993
• Issued: 01/31/1995
• Est. Priority Date: 05/08/1991
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: J. Van Walraven Holding B.V.
• Original Assignee: J. Van Walraven Holding B.V.
• Inventors: Van Walraven, Jan
• Primary Examiner(s): Brittain, James R.
• Application Number:
  US07/958,361
• Time in Patent Office: 508 Days
• Field of Search: 248/74.1, 248/74.5, 285/367, 24/279, 24/284, 24/285, 24/20 CS
• US Class Current: 24/279
• CPC Class Codes: F16L 3/12 comprising a member substantially surrounding the pipe, cable or protective tubing
• CPC Class Codes: F16L 3/133 and hanging from a pendant F16L3/14 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 24/1441 Tangential screw

Abstract

A pipe-clip is provided with a lining of an elastomeric material. A first flange of the pipe-clip has an outwardly opening slot for receiving a shank of a fastening screw, whereas an auxiliary flange is provided on a side of a second flange that is turned away from the first flange, the auxiliary flange having a nut for the fastening screw. The auxiliary flange having a lying against the side of the second flange that is turned away from the first flange, but may, against a spring action turn through a certain angle away from the second flange about an axis located adjacent a transition between the annular clip body and the second flange. The auxiliary flange, having the fastening nut, and the lining are formed of one piece of elastomeric material transverse slit is formed at the transition between the lining proper and the auxiliary flange through which the second flange extends.

Claims

1. A pipe-clip, comprising:

an annular clip body having on an inner side thereof a lining of an elastomeric material, and having two ends which are bent into first and second flanges which are to be pulled together by means of a fastening screw comprising a threaded shank and a head;

said first flange having an outwardly opening slot for receiving the shank of the fastening screw;

an auxiliary flange comprising a nut for the fastening screw, arranged so as to normally engage a first side face of said second flange which is turned away from said first flange, said auxiliary flange cooperating with the lining on the inner side of the clip body such that said auxiliary flange is bendable away from said second flange through a certain angle about an axis that is located adjacent a bend between said annular clip body and said second flange so as to cause said fastening screw, that is threaded through a slot-like opening in the second flange into said nut, to tilt outwardly;

said auxiliary flange, comprising said fastening nut, and said lining being formed of one strip of elastomeric material, said strip of elastomeric material comprising a main portion covering the inner side of said annular clip body and an extension portion arranged to cover said second flange and to form said auxiliary flange; and

a transverse slit provided in said lining at a transition between said main portion and said extension portion, through which transverse slit, said second flange extends.

2. The pipe-clip of claim 1, wherein said auxiliary flange has a second side face that is slightly sunk relative to an inner circumferential face of said lining, a recess being provided in said second side face for receiving said fastening nut.

3. The pipe-clip of claim 2, wherein said strip of elastomeric material has a second transverse slit at another end thereof, through which said first flange extends.

4. The pipe-clip of claim 2, wherein a respective longitudinal edge portion extends perpendicularly from each of an outer circumferential surface of said lining and from a face of said auxiliary flange that normally engages said first side face of said second flange, said clip body and said second flange being positioned between said longitudinal edge portions.

5. The pipe-clip of claim 4, wherein said strip of elastomeric material has a second transverse slit at another end thereof, through which said first flange extends.

6. The pipe-clip of claim 1, wherein a respective longitudinal edge portion extends perpendicularly from each of an outer circumferential surface of said lining and from a face of said auxiliary flange that normally engages said first side face of said second flange, said clip body and said second flange being positioned between said longitudinal edge portions.

7. The pipe-clip of claim 6, wherein said strip of elastomeric material has a second transverse slit at another end thereof, through which said first flange extends.

8. The pipe-clip of claim 1, wherein said strip of elastomeric material has a second transverse slit at another end thereof, through which said first flange extends.