Restraining element for pressure pipe joints

• US 5,464,228 A
• Filed: 09/16/1993
• Issued: 11/07/1995
• Est. Priority Date: 11/04/1992
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: United States PIPE and Foundry Company LLC (Mueller Water Products Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: United States PIPE and Foundry Company LLC (Mueller Water Products Incorporated)
• Inventors: Jones, Lawrence S., Weber, Joe
• Primary Examiner(s): DePumpo, Daniel G.
• Application Number:
  US08/121,631
• Time in Patent Office: 782 Days
• Field of Search: 277/166, 277/181, 277/189, 277/DIG. 2, 277/207 A, 285/104, 285/105, 285/231, 285/232, 285/339, 285/340, 285/374, 285/255
• US Class Current: 277/615
• CPC Class Codes: F16J 15/121 with metal reinforcement
• CPC Class Codes: F16L 37/0845 by means of retaining members associated with the packing member

Abstract

A restraining element for preventing separation of telescoped pipes comprising a compressible body of elastomeric material, the compressible body having metal segments spaced equidistantly around an exposed face of the body, each of the metal segments having a first exposed face with a row of teeth, at least four teeth of the row of teeth lying in an arc, and at least some of the metal segments having a single tooth extending radially outwardly beyond the face of the metal segment opposite the first exposed face.

Claims

1. A gasket for preventing separation of telescoped pipes, said telescoped pipes comprising a first pipe having a gasket receiving groove, said groove having a front wall, said gasket comprising a compressible body having a heel portion and a sealing portion, said heel portion having circumferentially spaced metal segments embedded in an exposed face of said body, each of said metal segments having a row of at least four teeth extending radially inwardly from a first face of said metal segment, and at least some of said metal segments having a single tooth extending radially outwardly of the side of said metal segment opposite said first face, said radially outwardly extending tooth being acutely pointed so as to bite into said front wall within said groove, said four teeth lying in an arc of a circle.

2. A gasket as recited in claim 1 in which said gasket has a heel portion having a preselected Shore hardness and said sealing portion having a Shore hardness less than said preselected Shore hardness of said heel portion.

3. A gasket as recited in claim 1 in which said heel portion and said sealing portion are of the same Shore hardness.

4. A gasket as recited in claim 1 in which each of said metal segments has a single tooth extending radially outwardly of the side of said metal segment opposite said first face.