US 11,850,688 B2
Refractory anchor system
Rich Giaramita, Fairfield, CA (US); and David Watts, Fairfield, CA (US)
Assigned to JT Thorpe & Sons, Inc., Richmond, CA (US)
Filed by JT Thorpe & Sons, Inc., Richmond, CA (US)
Filed on Oct. 27, 2020, as Appl. No. 17/081,751.
Application 17/081,751 is a continuation of application No. 15/975,802, filed on May 10, 2018, granted, now 10,857,616.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/514,724, filed on Jun. 2, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2021/0039188 A1, Feb. 11, 2021
Int. Cl. F27D 1/14 (2006.01); F23M 5/04 (2006.01); B23K 9/20 (2006.01); B23K 9/23 (2006.01); F27D 1/16 (2006.01); B23K 103/04 (2006.01); B23K 101/12 (2006.01)
CPC B23K 9/201 (2013.01) [B23K 9/208 (2013.01); B23K 9/23 (2013.01); F27D 1/14 (2013.01); F27D 1/16 (2013.01); B23K 2101/12 (2018.08); B23K 2103/05 (2018.08)] 7 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A Y-shaped anchor comprising:
a singular rectangular folded metal plate comprising a stem to be welded to a backing surface along a flat back edge of the stem and a branch section comprising two individual branches, wherein the two individual branches create an obtuse angle and wherein the two individual branches each have a singular and continuous flat back edge, wherein the flat back edge sections are identical to each other, wherein the singular metal plate is folded together at the stem base, such that the stem is twice as thick as the two individual branches, wherein the stem has at least one tapered triangular section located on the back edge to be welded to the backing surface, wherein the at least one tapered triangular section has a thickness designed to create a gap of up to about 0.125 inches in between both of the flat back edges of the two individual branches and the backing surface upon welding the Y-shaped anchor to the backing surface, and wherein the at least one tapered triangular section and a notch in between the at least one tapered triangular section and the two individual branches are designed to engage a ceramic ferrule.