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US 5,535,970 AGranted
Universal clamp for supporting the wall mounted piping of external electrical, telephone or plumbing systems
OwnerGianfranco Gobbiinventor
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Abstract
A universal clamp for supporting external wall mounted piping includes a single structural part having a flexible semicircular collar internally supporting a pair of opposing flexible curved and intersecting jaws. End elements of the jaws are positioned so that their respective concave sections face each other.
Claims9
An integral clamping unit for supporting an elongated object, comprising:
- first and second resilient C-shaped jaws, each having first and second ends, and each of said first and second jaws include a grasping claw between the respective first and second ends thereof;
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- a semi-circular resilient collar having first and second uppermost ends;
- each of the first ends of said first and second jaws, respectively, being integrally connected to a respective one of said first and second uppermost ends of the collar;
- wherein said first and second jaws opposingly extend and intersect each other inside and substantially below the uppermost first and second ends of said collar to define an intersection;
- wherein each of said grasping claws extends from the intersection of said first and second jaws to said second ends of each of said first and second jaws, the grasping claws each having a concave section, wherein the grasping claws of said first and second jaws face each other with their concave sections;
- wherein the elongated object to be supported is received between said first and second jaws, and is resiliently engaged by the grasping claws of each of said first and second jaws.
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The integral clamping unit of clamp 1, wherein each of said first and second jaws is provided with a respective groove at their intersection, said groove reducing a width of each of said first and second jaws thereby facilitating their intersecting.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.