US 12,434,361 B2
Pipe mounting device
Lawrence G. Meyers, Clearfield, UT (US); and Alden S. Meyers, Clearfield, UT (US)
Assigned to EBBE AMERICA, LC, Clearfield, UT (US)
Filed by EBBE AMERICA, LC, Clearfield, UT (US)
Filed on Jul. 7, 2020, as Appl. No. 16/922,696.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/872,363, filed on Jul. 10, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2021/0008700 A1, Jan. 14, 2021
Int. Cl. B25B 27/00 (2006.01); B25B 27/02 (2006.01); E03F 5/04 (2006.01)
CPC B25B 27/02 (2013.01) [E03F 5/041 (2013.01)] 15 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A pipe mounting device comprising:
an elongate part having a first end and a second end; and
a mounting head sized and configured for positioning within a pipe end comprising a plastic material, the mounting head oriented normal to the elongate part and attached to the first end at a position offset from a center axis of the mounting head oriented parallel to the elongate part such that tilting the elongate part when the mounting head is positioned within the pipe end moves the pipe mounting device between a first position in which the mounting head is passable through an inner diameter of the pipe end along a length, and a second position in which the mounting head lockingly engages the inner diameter of the pipe end to control a position of the pipe end,
wherein the mounting head comprises a pair of curved surfaces which each form an edge on a radius of the curve connecting to side truncated surfaces which have a recessed edge, the pair of curved surfaces sized and contoured to interface with and lockingly fit against the inner diameter of the pipe end when the pipe mounting device is in the second position, each of the pair of curved surfaces curving in a horizontal plane oriented normal to the elongate part, wherein the mounting head defines a maximum diameter between the curved surfaces and is symmetrical about the maximum diameter;
wherein the mounting head comprises a material configured to have a hardness greater than the plastic material of the pipe end such that the pipe end flexes to accommodate the mounting head in the second position and to form a press fit between the mounting head and the pipe end in the second position without damaging the pipe end,
wherein the press fit between the mounting head and the flexed pipe end selectively locks the pipe mounting device in the second position with the mounting head normal to a longitudinal axis of the pipe end and the elongate part parallel to the longitudinal axis of the pipe end,
wherein the center axis of the mounting head crosses a midpoint of the maximum diameter,
wherein a width of the mounting head defined in the horizontal plane and oriented normal to the maximum diameter is greater at each of the pair of curved surfaces than at a middle portion of the mounting head between the pair of curved surfaces.