Modular rooftop pipe support
AssigneeERICO International Corporation
InventorsMary E. Birli, Scott E. Anderson, Edward J. Lynch, Raymond S. Laughlin, Eric C. Osborn, Raymond M. Olle
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Abstract
An extruded or molded elastomeric (e.g., rubber) or polymeric multi-piece (e.g., two-piece) modular pipe support system utilizes a wide base with protrusions and/or recesses, and a separate top with recesses and/or protrusions that engage the protrusions and/or recesses of the top. The tops are configured to securely capture a pipe/conduit without any additional parts, straps, etc. The top may have one or more pipe-receiving recesses for receiving the pipes (conduits).
Claims19
A rooftop pipe support comprising:
- a base;
- and
- a top portion having a pipe-receiving recess;
- wherein one of the top portion or the base has protrusions that engage protrusion-engaging recesses in the other of the top portion or the base, holding the base and the top portion together;
- wherein the top portion may be engaged to the base at multiple different heights above a bottom wall of the base;
- wherein the pipe-receiving recess is bounded at a bottom portion of the pipe-receiving recess that is closest to the bottom wall, by a rounded surface of the top portion;
- wherein, when the top portion is engaged with the base, a closest distance between the rounded surface and the bottom wall of the base, is between, in a direction parallel to the bottom wall, a pair of other locations on the rounded surface that are at a greater distance than the closest distance from the bottom wall;
- wherein at least part of the top portion is received into a vertical channel in the base;
- wherein the protrusions include teeth of the at least part of the top portion;
- wherein the protrusion-engaging recesses are tooth-receiving recesses on opposing inner surfaces of the channel;
- and
- wherein the teeth are angled downward, toward a bottom wall of the base.
A rooftop pipe support comprising:
- a base;
- and
- a top portion having a pipe-receiving recess;
- wherein one of the top portion or the base has protrusions that engage protrusion-engaging recesses in the other of the top portion or the base, holding the base and the top portion together;
- wherein the top portion may be engaged to the base at multiple different heights above a bottom wall of the base;
- and
- wherein protrusion-engaging recesses have open ends, and the top portion and the base are engaged by sliding the protrusions into the recesses through the open ends, in a direction substantially parallel to the bottom wall of the base.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.