Pipe fitting placement device
AssigneeMueller International, LLC
InventorsTimothy Wayne Stern, Jeffrey Allen Huffman
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Abstract
A pipe fitting placement system includes a fitting holder including a bar defining a fitting bore proximate to a first end of the bar, the bar further defining a second end distal from the first end, the bar being elongated in a longitudinal direction extending from the first end to the second end; and a saddle coupled to the bar proximate to the second end of the bar, the saddle rotatable about a saddle pivot axis with respect to the bar; and a pipe fitting received within the fitting bore of the fitting holder.
Claims20
A pipe fitting placement system comprising:
- a fitting holder comprising:
- a bar defining a fitting bore proximate to a first end of the bar, the bar further defining a second end distal from the first end, the bar being elongated in a longitudinal direction extending from the first end to the second end;
- and
- a saddle coupled to the bar proximate to the second end of the bar, the saddle rotatable about a saddle pivot axis with respect to the bar;
- and
- a pipe fitting received within the fitting bore of the fitting holder.
A fitting holder for a pipe fitting placement device, the fitting holder comprising:
- a bar defining a fitting bore proximate to a first end of the bar, the bar further defining a second end distal from the first end, the bar being elongated in a longitudinal direction extending from the first end to the second end;
- and
- a saddle coupled to the bar proximate to the second end of the bar, the saddle rotatable about a saddle pivot axis with respect to the bar.
A method of using a pipe fitting placement device, the method comprising:
- receiving a pipe fitting within a fitting bore of the device, the device comprising:
- a bar defining the fitting bore proximate to a first end of the bar, the bar further defining a second end distal from the first end, the bar being elongated in a longitudinal direction extending from the first end to the second end;
- and
- a saddle coupled to the bar proximate to the second end of the bar, the saddle rotatable about a saddle pivot axis with respect to the bar;
- positioning the pipe fitting against an outer surface of a pipe;
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- positioning the device against the outer surface of the pipe.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.