Pipe socket
AssigneeBadjer Meter, Inc.
InventorRay Gardner
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Abstract
A socket accommodates pipes of different wall thicknesses that are to be joined by a fillet weld. The socket has a body with a central opening in one face. The face includes a series of physical indicators each of which are spaced from the opening a distance corresponding to the proper fillet height for one of the pipe wall thicknesses. The indicators may be a series of steps, protrusions, or grooves. The socket may be formed in an adapter to join pipes to another member, or the socket may be formed integral with a member such as a valve body, a flange, or a pipe connector.
Claims8
A socket for mounting pipes of different wall thicknesses, comprising:
- a body having a circular pipe opening through one face of the body, the opening being adapted to receive therethrough any one of the pipes of different wall thicknesses;
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- a series of fillet indicators on the face of the body about the opening, the indicators lying wholly in a single plane that is transverse to the axis of the opening, each indicator being spaced from the perimeter of the opening a distance that corresponds to the proper height of a fillet that connects the face of the body to a pipe having one of the pipe wall thicknesses.
A socket for mounting pipes of different wall thicknesses, comprising:
- a body having a circular pipe opening through one face of the body, the opening being adapted to receive therethrough any one of the pipes of different wall thicknesses;
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- fillet indicators on the face of the body about the opening, the indicators comprising a series of steps formed into the face concentric with the opening, the steps having radially outer edges each of which lies wholly in a respective plane that is transverse to the axis of the opening, each edge being spaced from the perimeter of the opening a distance that corresponds to the proper height of a fillet that connects the face of the body to a pipe having one of the pipe wall thicknesses.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.