Patent ID: 9731441
Date: 2017-08-15
CPC Classifications: B29C,B29K,F16L,Y10T

Claim:
1. A flanged plumbing fixture comprising a main fixture body with a planar flange projecting laterally therefrom, the flange having a rigid planar thermoplastic core layer having opposing outwardly facing planar surfaces with two planar fabric layers coextensive with the opposing planar surfaces of the thermoplastic core layer and fused respectively to the opposing planar surfaces each planar fabric layer being comprised of a plurality of textile fibers interengaged with each other in a textile structure defining interstices between the fibers, each planar fabric layer forming respective outwardly exposed faces of the fixture presenting an open three-dimensional mortar-bondable fabric structure suitable for interstitially receiving and bonding with a plumbing mortar.