Tapping fitting

A tapping fitting, having a saddle component for positioning on and cohesively connecting to a tubular component, and having a clamping device for clamping the saddle component on the tubular component, wherein the clamping device has a tiltable clamping lever with a sliding profile, wherein the clamping lever is mounted via the sliding profile in a bearing shell in a first peripheral portion of the saddle component, and wherein a clamping band is fastened on one side to the clamping lever at a distance from a rotation axis about which the clamping lever is tiltable in the bearing shell, and on the other side to a second peripheral portion, located opposite the first peripheral portion of the saddle component, such that, when the tapping fitting is positioned on a tubular component, when the clamping lever is tilted, the clamping band is biased and the tapping fitting is pressed against the tubular component, and wherein the sliding profile has an offset geometry, and the contact surface between the sliding profile and the bearing shell increases by progressively increasing the tilting in the direction of the closed position, so that the frictional coupling between the sliding profile and the bearing shell correspondingly increases and reaches its maximum when the closed position has been reached.