US 11,946,575 B2
Device for pre-positioning a profile clamp, and connection system
Mark Carter, Newbury (GB); Mateusz Jarosz, Newbury (GB); and Gary Williams, Newbury (GB)
Assigned to Norma Germany GmbH, Maintal (DE)
Appl. No. 17/611,747
Filed by NORMA Germany GmbH, Maintal (DE)
PCT Filed May 8, 2020, PCT No. PCT/EP2020/062922
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Nov. 16, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/229360, PCT Pub. Date Nov. 19, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2019 112 884.6 (DE), filed on May 16, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0235888 A1, Jul. 28, 2022
Int. Cl. F16L 23/00 (2006.01); F16L 23/08 (2006.01)
CPC F16L 23/003 (2013.01) [F16L 23/08 (2013.01)] 12 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A device for pre-positioning a profile clamp for connecting line end pieces, wherein the device has a bridge element of a profile clamp and a flange element on one of the line end pieces, wherein the bridge element is designed to connect two clamp portions of the profile clamp along a bridge direction, wherein the bridge element has a finger; the finger extends away from the bridge element at least partly transversely to the bridge direction and has a free end portion, wherein the flange element comprises a recess for receiving the free end portion, wherein the recess blocks a movement of the free end portion along a circumferential direction of the flange element, wherein the finger has a spring portion, which is arranged between the bridge element and the free end portion, wherein the spring portion arranges the free end portion at a greater distance from the bridge element in an untensioned state than in a tensioned state, in which the free end portion is arranged in the recess, wherein the free end portion at least partly overlaps the bridge element in a radial direction of the profile clamp.