US1011612A - Stovepipe-fastener. - Google Patents

Description

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HERBERT E. GORDON, OF KIONA, WASHINGTON.

STOVEPIPE-FASTENER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 12, 1911.

Application filed February 28, 1911. Serial No. 611,466.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HERBERT E. GORDON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Kiona, in the county of Benton and State of Washington, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Stovepipe-Fasteners, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to an improved stove pipe fastener, and has for an object to provide a support or truss for pipes of considerable length which does not depend upon wires or other members hanging from a ceiling or the like, but which is directly applied to the pipe itself.

The invention further designs to provide a device which is light in weight, one which may be quickly and easily applied to stove pipes varying in size, and a device which may be economically produced so as to pro vide a support of this character which may be generally used and one which is of great practical efficiency.

For a full understanding of the invention and the merits thereof and also to acquire a knowledge of the details of construction, reference is to be had to the following description and accompanying drawings, in which:

Figure 1 is a perspective View of the improved fastener or support as applied to a stove pipe; Fig. 2 is a detail enlarged perspective view of one of the clamping sleeves employed in connection with the support; Fig. 3 is a detail enlarged perspective view of one end of one of the compression bars; Fig. 4 is a detail enlarged perspective view of one end of the brace wire; and, Fig. -5 is a detail view of the inner end of the brace rod.

Corresponding and like parts are referred to in the following description and indicated in all the views of the drawing by the same reference characters.

Referring to the drawing, and for the purpose of illustration, the numerals 10, 11 and 12 designate three sections of a stove pipe. The outer end of the section 12 is provided with an elbow 13 coupled to a depending pipe section 14. The inner section 10 is suitably connected to a chimney 15.

The improved support comprises a pair of inner split collars 16 spaced upon the section 11 midway of its ends. Each of the collars 16 is formed of a strip of metal encircling the pipe section and provided with outturned registering flanges 17, the same being apertured, as at 18. Clamping bolts 19 pass through the apertures 18 and carry binding nuts 20 for drawing the flanges 17 together. The opposite longitudinal edges of the collars 16 are crimped or fluted, as at 20, to insure the binding of the collars about the pipe sections. Compression rods 21 converge down from the inner opposite bolts19 of the collars 16. Each rod 21 comprises a relatively thin rounded bar flattened at its ends to form webs 22 which are apertured, and through which engage the central portions of the bolts 19. The lower adjacent ends of the compression rods 21 are hingedly secured by bolts 23 between the upwardly extending ears of the connecting loop 24.

The inner section 10 carries a split collar 25 constructed similar to the collar 16, and being located adjacent to the chimney 15. An eye-bolt 26 is carried in the outer face ofthe chimney 15 and supports the inner end 27 of a brace rod 28 which is looped down to provide an eye for the reception of the adjacent clamping bolt 19 of the collar 25. The brace rod 28 extends diagonally down from the collar 25 beneath the sections 10 and 11 and passes through the lower end of the connecting loop 24. The brace rod 25 extends up from the connecting loop 24 and is formed into a hook engaging with a turnbuckle 29.

The pipe sections 12 and 14 are provided with collars 30 and 31 respectively disposed at the opposite ends of the elbow 13. The corner brace wire 32 is looped through the bolts 19 of the collars 30 and 31 and is overturned and twisted at one end to slidably receive the offset end of the brace wire 32, forming a noose the free end of which is formed into an eye receiving the adjacent hooked end of the brace rod 28. The end 27 of the brace rod 28 is the only portion of the support which is secured otherwise than upon the pipe sections, the end 27 serving to hold the section 10 against the chimney 15.

It is readily seen from the foregoing that when the brace rod 28 is tightenedby the turnbuckle 29 it draws the connecting loop 24 up and forces the compression rods 21 against the collars 16. In this manner the central pipe section 11 is held up between the pipe sections 10 and 12, and all strain incident to the weight of the pipe sections is taken ofi their interfitting ends.

It is of course understood that the collars may be increased in number, and may be positioned farther apart to accommodate the improved support to stove pipes varying in length and angles.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed is:

1. A support for stove pipes comprising spaced intermediate collars, converging compression rods depending from the collars, a conecting loop carried upon the lower meeting ends of the compression rods, outer collars spaced longitudinally from the intermediate collars, and an adjustable brace rod secured at its ends to the outer collars and slidably mounted in the connecting loop. 2. A support of the character described, comprising adjustable spaced inner collars adapted to be mounted upon stove pipe sections, hinged compression rods depending from the collars, a loop hingedly connecting the lower ends of the compression rods, adjustable spaced outer collars adapted to be mounted upon sections of the stove pipe, and an adjustable brace connected to the outer collars and slidably mounted in the loop.

In testimony whereof, I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

HERBERT E. GORDON. [L. s.] Witnesses W. A. KELso, G. N. HUGHES.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. G.

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