Vibration absorbing clamp for pipe
AssigneeNewfrey LLC
InventorHiroyuki Kato
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Abstract
A vibration absorbing clamp comprises a hard plastic base, hard plastic pipe grippers for gripping pipes, and a soft plastic vibration absorbing material disposed between the base and the pipe grippers. Each pipe gripper has a receiver for receiving a pipe and elastic wings allowing the pipe to be pushed into the receiver but not removed. The base has a bottom and side walls spaced from the bottom and sides of the receivers. The sides of the receiver and the side walls of the base are connected only by hard plastic thin plate supports. The spaces formed by the bottoms and sides of the receiver and by the bottom and side walls of the base are filled with vibration absorbing material so as to envelop the thin plate supports.
Claims12
A vibration absorbing clamp for a long object, comprising:
- a hard plastic base;
- at least one hard plastic gripper;
- and
- a soft plastic vibration absorbing material disposed between the base and each gripper,
- wherein each gripper has a receiver for receiving an object and elastic wings allowing the object to be pushed into the receiver but not to be easily removed therefrom,
- wherein the base has a bottom and side walls surrounding and spaced from of a bottom and sides of each receiver,
- wherein sides of the receiver and the side walls of the base are connected only by hard plastic thin plates that maintain space therebetween, and
- wherein spaces between the bottom and sides of the receiver and the bottom and side walls of the base are filled with a vibration absorbing material.
A vibration absorbing clamp for a long object, comprising:
- a base having a bottom and a pair of spaced side walls;
- a long object gripper having a receiver that includes a pair of sides adjacent to and spaced from respective side walls of the base and having a bottom joining the sides of the receiver and separated from the bottom of the base;
- a frame having a pair of sides extending from respective sides of the receiver and having a bottom joining the sides of the frame and separated from the bottom of the receiver and the bottom of the base;
- a bridge between the bottom of the receiver and the bottom of the frame, separated therefrom, and connected to the base;
- webs connecting respective sides of the receiver and side walls of the base and connecting the bridge to the bottom of the frame;
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- vibration absorbing material in spaces between the sides of the receiver and respective side walls of the base, between the sides of the frame and respective side walls of the base, between the bottom of the frame and the bottom of the base, between the bottom of the frame and the bridge, and between the bridge and the bottom of the receiver, such that the frame, the bridge, and the webs are enveloped by vibration absorbing material.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.