JP2020012540A - Saddle band - Google Patents

Abstract

To provide a saddle band of high degree of freedom in a mounting process to a mounting work place, and high workability in piping.SOLUTION: In a saddle band 1 which has a base portion 2 mounted on a mounting face, and a holding portion 3 having a band portion 31 for holding piping, and in which the base portion and the holding portion have detachable separate constitutions, the base portion has a dovetail groove 21 having an opening groove on an upper face portion, and an opening end portion communicated with a side face portion from an edge of the upper face portion, a lower face portion of the holding portion has a dovetail tenon 32 engaged with the dovetail groove, a cutout portion or a clearance portion 5 is formed on any one place of from a side position to an upper position of the band portion, further a lower position of the band portion is formed from the thin portion, the lower face portion of the holding portion positioned at a lower part of the thin portion and the dovetail tenon have a division portion 6, and the piping can be inserted and held in the band portion from an opening portion formed by expanding and opening the cutout portion or the clearance portion by utilizing elastic deformation of the thin portion.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1

Description

  The present invention relates to a saddle band, and more particularly, to a saddle band for supporting and fixing a pipe along a mounting surface such as a ceiling surface, a wall surface, and a floor surface.

  2. Description of the Related Art A saddle band is known as a pipe support for supporting and fixing piping such as a gas pipe, a water supply pipe, and a hot water supply pipe along a mounting surface such as a ceiling surface, a wall surface, or a floor surface in facility construction of a building or the like. As for the saddle band, a double holding type that is fixed on both sides in the direction perpendicular to the piping axis is called a double saddle, and a single holding type that is fixed on one side is called a single saddle.

  The one-side saddle is configured to hold a pipe in the holding portion from a lower opening portion of a generally inverted U-shaped holding portion, and then connected to one end of the holding portion and extend along the mounting surface. In this configuration, the pipe is supported and fixed by fixing the fixed end to the mounting surface with a fixing member such as a bolt.

  The one-sided saddle can easily support and fix the pipe to the mounting surface with a very simple configuration, but in the supported and fixed state, the open part below the holding part is closed by the mounting surface, so the state where the one saddle is supported and fixed to the mounting surface It is difficult to attach and detach piping. In order to attach / detach the pipe, one saddle must be removed from the mounting surface so that the lower part of the holding portion is opened.

  Therefore, the band portion of the holding portion has a substantially C-shaped configuration, and the one-side saddle is mounted on the mounting surface by expanding the open portion on the C-shaped side by utilizing the elastic deformation of the substantially C-shaped band portion. There has been proposed a technique which enables high workability at the time of piping in which piping can be attached and detached in a state where the piping is attached (see Patent Document 1).

JP-A-2017-089750

  In the technique of Patent Document 1, since the mounting hole provided in the mounting portion connected to the holding portion separately from the holding portion holding the pipe is located below the center of the pipe shaft, the mounting to the mounting surface is performed. There are restrictions on directions. Therefore, the saddle band depends on the construction environment, such as when the construction place for supporting and fixing the pipe is already located close to other pipes, or in a narrow place where it is difficult to secure the position of the mounting hole for bolt fixing. There is a problem that there is a case where there is a restriction in the mounting of the.

Therefore, an object of the present invention is to provide a saddle band that has a high degree of freedom in a mounting process with respect to a mounting work site and has high workability during piping.
Other objects of the present invention will be apparent from the following description.

  The present invention for solving the above problems has the following configuration.

1. A base unit attached to the attachment surface using the attachment hole, and a holding unit having a band unit for holding the piping, wherein the base unit and the holding unit are detachable separately. A saddle band that is
In the base portion, a dovetail groove having an opening end in the upper surface portion and having an open end communicating from the edge of the upper surface portion to the side surface portion is formed,
A dovetail engaging with the dovetail groove is formed on a lower surface of the holding portion from a side surface direction of the base portion,
A cut portion or a gap is formed at any one of the upper positions from the side positions of the band portion,
Further, the lower portion of the band portion is formed of a thin portion, and the lower surface portion and the dovetail of the holding portion located at a lower portion of the thin portion have a dividing portion,
A configuration in which a pipe can be inserted into and held in a band portion from an open portion generated by expanding and opening the cut portion or the gap portion using elastic deformation of the thin portion,
Saddle band characterized by.

2. 2. The saddle band according to claim 1, wherein the dividing portion has a wedge-shaped notch structure extending from a lower surface of the dovetail to a lower portion of the thin portion via a lower surface of the holding portion.

3. 3. The saddle band according to the above item 1 or 2, wherein two dovetail grooves are formed, and the engagement directions of the two dovetail grooves intersect when the base portion is viewed from above.

4. 4. The saddle band according to any one of the above items 1 to 3, wherein the saddle band has a fixed holding for fixedly holding the dove tenon engaged with the dovetail groove at an arbitrary position.

5. The saddle band according to the above item 4, wherein the fixed holding portion is provided on an inner peripheral surface of the dovetail groove and / or an outer peripheral surface of the dovetail tenon.

6. 6. The saddle band according to the above item 4 or 5, wherein the fixed holding portion has a configuration including a convex portion or a concave portion or a combination of a convex portion and a concave portion.

7. The saddle band according to any one of the above items 1 to 6, wherein the open end of the dovetail groove is provided only at one end of the dovetail groove.

8. 7. The saddle band according to any one of 1 to 6, wherein an open end of the dovetail groove is provided at both ends of the dovetail groove.

  According to the first aspect of the present invention, it is possible to provide a saddle band having a high degree of freedom in a mounting process with respect to a mounting work site and having high workability at the time of piping.

In particular, since the base portion to be mounted on the mounting surface and the holding portion for holding the piping are separate components, the base portion is mounted on the mounting surface while the holding portion is mounted on the base portion. After that, hold the pipe to the holding part, or attach only the base to the mounting surface, hold the pipe in the holding part in advance, and then attach the holding part to the base together with the held pipe In addition, since the versatility of the mounting work process is high, various mounting processes can be adopted according to the situation of the mounting work place.
In particular, after the holding portion is attached to the base portion, the thin portion below the band portion is prevented from being elastically deformed, so that the cut portion or the gap portion of the band portion is closed without expanding and opening. The pipes do not fall out of the holding part because they are maintained in the closed state.

  According to the second aspect of the present invention, the cuts or gaps are reliably expanded and opened by the elastic deformation of the thin portions of the band portion, so that the pipe is easily inserted into the band portion and held. Can be done.

  According to the third aspect of the present invention, since two dovetail grooves for engaging the dovetail tenon of the holding portion are provided in the base portion, the holding portion is provided in accordance with the mounting direction of the base portion to the mounting surface. Since the holding direction can be changed, it is possible to cope with various mounting directions according to the situation of the mounting site.

  According to the invention described in claim 4 or 5, the position of the holding portion can be easily fixed to the base portion.

  According to the invention as set forth in claim 6, it is possible to extremely easily fix the position of the holding portion to the base portion only by providing the convex portion or the concave portion in the dovetail groove or the dovetail portion.

  According to the seventh aspect of the invention, the fixing position of the dovetail engaged with the dovetail groove is set at the innermost part of the dovetail groove, so that the fixing position can be easily determined.

  According to the invention as set forth in claim 8, in addition to the engaging direction of the holding portion with respect to the base portion, the holding portion can be mounted from both directions of the position facing the base portion. It is possible to cope with various mounting directions and engaging directions depending on the situation.

FIG. 2 is a perspective view of a dispersion showing an embodiment of a saddle band according to the present invention. 4 views (front view, plan view, left side view, bottom view) showing the holding portion of the saddle band shown in FIG. 1 A schematic side view showing a state in which a cut portion or a gap portion is expanded and opened by elastically deforming a thin portion of a band portion. 5 views (front view, plan view, left side view, bottom view, sectional view taken along line AA) showing the base portion of the saddle band shown in FIG. Plan view showing another embodiment of the base portion Plan view showing still another embodiment of the base portion Plan view showing still another embodiment of the base portion Main part sectional view explaining an example of a fixed holding part Main part sectional view explaining other examples of fixed holding parts Main part front view showing another example of dovetail and ant tenon

  Next, the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

  The saddle band according to the present invention is for supporting and fixing pipes such as gas pipes, water supply pipes, and hot water supply pipes along installation surfaces such as a ceiling surface, a wall surface, and a floor surface in installation work of a building or the like. It is a double press type (both saddles) that is fixed on both sides in the orthogonal direction.

  As various pipes to be fixedly supported, synthetic resin pipes (polyethylene pipes, cross-linked polyethylene pipes, polybutene pipes, polyvinyl chloride pipes, propylene pipes, ABS pipes) which have recently been widely used in place of conventional steel pipes are used. The present invention is particularly effective for the fixed support of the present invention. Although the present invention is particularly effective for fixing and supporting a synthetic resin pipe, it is also possible to fix and support a conventional steel pipe, and does not exclude a steel pipe or other pipes as a pipe for fixing and supporting.

As a specific configuration of the saddle band of the present invention, according to the embodiment shown in FIGS.
It has a base portion 2 attached to a mounting surface by using a mounting hole 22 and a holding portion 3 having a band portion 31 for holding the pipe P. The base portion 2 and the holding portion 3 are provided. Is a saddle band 1 which is a detachable separate structure,
The base portion 2 is formed with a dovetail groove 21 having an open groove on the upper surface and having an open end communicating from the edge of the upper surface to the side surface,
On the lower surface of the holding portion 3, a dovetail tenon 32 which engages with the dovetail groove 21 is formed from a side surface direction of the base portion 2,
A cut portion or a gap portion 5 is formed at any one position (upper position in this embodiment) from the side position to the upper position of the band portion 31,
Further, the lower portion of the band portion 31 is formed of a thin portion 33, and the lower surface portion of the holding portion 3 and the dovetail tenon 32 located below the thin portion 33 have a dividing portion 6,
The pipe P can be inserted into the band portion 31 and held by an opening formed by expanding and opening the cut portion or the gap portion 5 by utilizing the elastic deformation of the thin portion 33. ,
Is the main configuration.

  Hereinafter, the configuration of the present invention will be described in more detail.

  As the saddle band 1 of the present invention, a publicly-known flexible synthetic resin used for this kind of saddle band can be used without any particular limitation, and is preferably polypropylene or ABS resin.

A mounting hole 22 through which a fixing member such as a bolt for mounting and fixing the base portion 2 to the mounting surface is inserted is formed in a fixed end portion 23 provided continuously to the side of the base portion 2. In the present embodiment, the fixed end portions 23 are continuously provided on both sides of the base portion 2 in the pipe axis direction, but are not limited to both sides, and may be either one side, or one side in the pipe axis orthogonal direction or It may be provided continuously on both sides.

The band portion 31 of the holding portion 3 is connected to a pipe P from an open portion generated by expanding and opening the cut portion or the gap portion 5 at the upper position by utilizing the elastic deformation of the thin portion 33 at the lower position of the band portion 31. Can be held and supported by being inserted from above. The gap between the cut portions or the gap portions 5 of the band portion 31 may be any interval that allows the pipe P to be inserted when the cut portion 5 is expanded by the elastic deformation of the thin portion 33.
In particular, in the present embodiment, as shown in FIG. 2, the dividing portion 6 located below the thin portion 33 extends from the lower surface of the dovetail 32 to the lower portion of the thin portion 33 via the lower surface of the holding portion 3. Preferably, it is a wedge-shaped notch configuration that reaches. According to the dividing portion 6 having such a wedge-shaped notch configuration, the cut portion or the gap portion 5 is surely expanded and opened by the elastic deformation of the thin portion 33 of the band portion 31. P can be easily inserted and held. Note that, at the time of opening the cut portion or the gap 5, at least a part or all of the band portion 31 of the holding portion 3 is elastically deformed, thereby contributing to the opening of the cut portion or the gap 5. There may be.

  After the holding section 3 holds the pipe P after the holding section 3 is attached to the base section 2, the elastic deformation of the thin section 33 below the band section 31 is suppressed. It is difficult to open and cut the gaps or gaps 5 of the band 31, so that the closed state is maintained. Therefore, even when vibrations due to the water hammer phenomenon or the like occur in the pipe P, the pipe P is securely held without falling off from the cut or the gap 5. The cut or gap 5 may be in a state where there is no gap in the cut or gap 5 in a state where the pipe P is held or in a state before holding, or in a state where there is a gap. Is also good.

  As a detachable mounting structure between the base 2 and the holding unit 3, the dovetail groove 32 provided on the base 2 engages with the dovetail tenon 32 provided on the holding unit 3 as described above. That is, it is attached by the same configuration as the "dovetail joint" of the wood joint structure. The engagement between the dovetail groove 21 and the dovetail tenon 32 in the present invention may be a structure in which the dovetails are closely engaged in a press-fitted state as in the case of a "wood dovetail" of a wood joint structure, or may be pushed by a finger or the like. It is good also as a structure which engages in the sliding state which can be performed. In the case of a configuration that engages in a sliding state, it is fixed by a fastening means such as adhesion or adhesion so as not to be disengaged or displaced by vibration due to a water hammer phenomenon or a binding band or the like. It is also preferable to fix by tightening. In order to separate the base portion 2 and the holding portion 3, it is preferable to use a jig such as a flathead screwdriver or the like, particularly when the base portion 2 and the holding portion 3 are closely engaged by press-fitting. It is preferable that a concave portion into which the tip of the jig can be inserted is formed in one or both of the boundary portions between the holding portion 3 and the holding portion 3.

The saddle band 1 of the present invention having the base portion 2 and the holding portion 3 having the above configuration has a structure in which the base portion 2 attached to the mounting surface and the holding portion 3 holding the pipe P are separate bodies. Because of this configuration, after the pipe P is held by the band portion 31 of the holding portion 3 in advance, the holding portion is attached to the base portion 2 and then the base portion 2 is attached to the mounting surface, or Only the base 2 is attached to the mounting surface, the holding section 3 holds the pipe P in advance, and then the holding section 3 is attached to the base section 2 together with the held pipe P. Since it is high, various mounting processes can be adopted according to the situation of the mounting work site.
In addition, when the holding unit 3 is mounted on the base unit 2, the mounting is not limited to the mounting from the arrow X direction in FIG. Even when the installation from the arrow X side is difficult or impossible, as in the case where the device is already installed, the installation can be performed from the direction opposite to the arrow X direction.

  The embodiments of the saddle band according to the present invention have been described above. However, the present invention is not limited to the above-described configuration, and various modes can be adopted within the scope of the present invention.

  For example, as shown in FIG. 5, two dovetail grooves 21 are formed, and the engagement direction of the two dovetail grooves 21 may intersect when the base 2 is viewed from above. . According to such a configuration, since the dovetail grooves 21 for engaging the dovetail tenon 32 of the holding portion 3 are provided on the base portion 2, the mounting direction of the base portion 2 on the mounting surface is matched. Thus, the holding direction of the holding portion 3 can be changed, so that it is possible to cope with various mounting directions according to the situation of the mounting work place.

  The dovetail groove 21 of the embodiment shown in FIGS. 1 and 4 has a configuration in which the open ends are provided at both ends of the dovetail groove 21, that is, the dovetail groove 21 extends over the entire width of the base 2. However, the present invention is not limited to this configuration, and the open end of the dovetail groove 21 is provided only at one end of the dovetail groove 21 as shown in FIG. It can also be configured. According to such a configuration, the mounting direction of the holding portion 3 with respect to the base portion 2 is limited to only one direction, but the fixing position of the dovetail tenon 32 engaged with the dovetail groove 21 is set at the innermost portion of the dovetail groove 21. The fixed position can be easily determined by setting.

  7, two dovetail grooves 21 are formed, and the engagement direction of the two dovetail grooves 21 intersects when the base 2 is viewed from above. In addition, the open end of each dovetail 21 may be provided only at one end of each dovetail 21. According to such a configuration, the holding direction of the holding portion 3 can be changed in accordance with the mounting direction of the base portion 2 to the mounting surface, so that various mounting directions can be handled according to the situation of the mounting work site. Although the mounting direction of the holding portion 3 with respect to the base portion 2 is limited to only one direction, the fixing position of the dovetail tenon 32 engaged with the dovetail groove 21 is located at the innermost portion of the dovetail groove 21. By setting, the fixed position can be easily determined.

  Further, as shown in FIG. 8, a configuration may be adopted in which a fixed holding portion 4 for fixing and holding the dovetail tenon 32 engaged with the dovetail groove 21 at an arbitrary position is provided. The fixed holding portion 4 has a configuration in which a convex portion serving as a slope-shaped step is provided on a part of the inner peripheral surface of the dovetail groove 21 and the dovetail 32 crosses the convex portion serving as the step, thereby preventing backward movement. . According to this configuration, unlike the configuration in which the engagement between the dovetail groove 21 and the dovetail tenon 32 is tightly engaged in a press-fit state in the same manner as in a "wood dovetail" of a wood joint structure, sliding with fingers or the like is performed. Since the holding portion 3 can be fixed in position to the base portion 2 by moving and engaging, the workability is improved. In the embodiment shown in FIG. 8, by providing the fixed holding portions 4 at two locations, the dovetail tenon 32 can be fixed in position between the two fixed holding portions 4. Incidentally, the fixed holding portion 4 may be configured such that a concave portion is formed in the dovetail groove 21 instead of the convex portion serving as a step, and the lower end portion of the dovetail tenon 32 is dropped and fixed in this concave portion. it can.

  Note that the fixed holding portion 4 is not limited to the configuration provided in the dovetail groove 21 shown in FIG. In the embodiment shown in FIG. 9, the fixing portion 4 is configured by a combination of a concave portion 41 and a convex portion 42 engaging with the concave portion 41. The concave portion 41 is provided in the dovetail groove 21, and the convex portion 42 is The configuration is provided. The dovetail groove 21 may be provided with a convex portion and the dovetail tenon 32 may be provided with a concave portion.

  The fixed holding portion 4 may be any configuration that can hold the fixing position of the holding portion 3 attached to the base portion 2, and the formation position is a position where the base portion 2 and the holding portion 3 are in contact with each other. It is more preferably provided on the inner peripheral surface of the dovetail groove 21 and / or the outer peripheral surface of the dovetail tenon 32.

  The dovetail groove 21 and the dovetail tenon 32 of the embodiment shown in FIGS. 1 to 4 have a dovetail shape (trapezoidal shape). It may be convex. In the case of a convex shape, a similar engagement configuration can be obtained even if the lower rectangular portion is a rectangle such as a circle or a square.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Saddle band 2 Base part 21 Dovetail groove 22 Mounting hole 23 Fixed end part 3 Holding part 31 Band part 32 Dovetail tenon 33 Thin part 4 Fixed holding part 41 Depression 42 Convex part 5 Cut part or gap part 6 Split part P piping

Claims (8)

A base unit attached to the attachment surface using the attachment hole, and a holding unit having a band unit for holding the piping, wherein the base unit and the holding unit are detachable separately. A saddle band that is
In the base portion, a dovetail groove having an opening end in the upper surface portion and having an open end communicating from the edge of the upper surface portion to the side surface portion is formed,
A dovetail engaging with the dovetail groove is formed on a lower surface of the holding portion from a side surface direction of the base portion,
A cut portion or a gap is formed at any one of the upper positions from the side positions of the band portion,
Further, the lower portion of the band portion is formed of a thin portion, and the lower surface portion and the dovetail of the holding portion located at a lower portion of the thin portion have a dividing portion,
A configuration in which a pipe can be inserted into and held in a band portion from an open portion generated by expanding and opening the cut portion or the gap portion using elastic deformation of the thin portion,
Saddle band characterized by. 2. The saddle band according to claim 1, wherein the dividing portion has a wedge-shaped notch extending from a lower surface of the dovetail to a lower portion of the thin portion via a lower surface of the holding portion. 3. 3. The saddle band according to claim 1, wherein two dovetail grooves are formed, and an engagement direction of the two dovetail grooves intersects when the base is viewed from above. 4. The saddle band according to any one of claims 1 to 3, further comprising fixed holding for holding the dove tenon engaged with the dovetail groove at an arbitrary position. The saddle band according to claim 4, wherein the fixed holding portion is provided on an inner peripheral surface of the dovetail groove and / or an outer peripheral surface of the dovetail tenon. The saddle band according to claim 4, wherein the fixed holding portion has a configuration including a convex portion or a concave portion or a combination of a convex portion and a concave portion. The saddle band according to any one of claims 1 to 6, wherein an opening end of the dovetail groove is provided only at one end of the dovetail groove. The saddle band according to any one of claims 1 to 6, wherein an opening end of the dovetail groove is provided at both ends of the dovetail groove.