Pipe clip
AssigneeUSM Corporation
InventorHarald Schaty
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Abstract
A plastic pipe clip is adapted for attachment to a threaded weld stud and has means for receiving one or more pipes. Each pipe can be easily mounted in the clip without risk of damage due to the yielding of a resilient arm which, after receiving the pipe and embracing it, is locked against opening should the pipe be accidentally pulled away.
Claims7
A plastic pipe clip comprising a body portion having means to enable the clip to be fixed to a support and an arcuate flexible and resilient pipe-receiving arm extending from the body portion and arranged together with the body portion to provide a seat which embraces the pipe round more than 180.degree. of its circumference, there being a gap between the body portion and the free end of the arm through which, upon yielding of the arm, the pipe can be introduced to the seat, and a second more rigid arm projecting from the body portion and round the outside of the flexible arm terminating at an abutment surface disposed thereon close to the free end of the flexible arm, the more rigid arm being so shaped as to allow the flexible arm to open without interference from the more rigid arm when a pipe is pushed into the clip and the flexible arm pressed towards the support, and to prevent opening of the flexibly arm by engagement of a shoulder at the free end of the flexible arm with the abutment surface, when a pipe held by the clip is pulled in a direction away from the support.
A plastic pipe clip comprising a body portion having means to enable the clip to be fixed to a support and an arcuate flexible and resilient pipe-receiving arm extending from the body portion and arranged together with the body portion to provide a seat which embraces the pipe round more than 180.degree. of its circumference, there being a gap between the body portion and the free end of the arm through which, upon yielding of the arm the pipe can be introduced to the seat, and a second more rigid arm projecting from the body portion and round the ouside of the flexible arm characterized in that the more rigid arm is wider, in the lengthwise direction of a pipe held in the flexible arm, than the flexible arm and has an aperture to receive the flexible arm when the flexible arm is opened to allow admission of the pipe, and in that at its free end the flexible arm has a stepped portion which provides a shoulder arranged to prevent opening of the flexible arm, when a pipe held by the clip is pulled in a direction away from the support, by engagement with an abutment surface of a cross piece of the more rigid arm overlying the aperture.
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