Patent ID: 6325336
Filing Date: 2001-12-04
Classification: F16L

Abstract:
A tubing clamp for holding at least two rigid tubes relative to one another comprising:a clamp body;a recessed region having at least first and second spaced apart tubing seat surfaces bounded by spaced clamp arms that extend outwardly from the tubing seat surfaces and have a length along a longitudinal plane, at least one of the clamp arms being resiliently movable in a direction perpendicular to the longitudinal plane, the clamp arms forming an opening to the recessed region between the arms defined by spaced, longitudinally extending edges on the clamp arms, the edges defining a plane that is adapted to be to the outside of a reference plane defined by the central axes of two outermost tubes when positioned on the tubing seat surfaces in the recessed area;the tubing seat surfaces having longitudinal seat axes that are substantially parallel and parallel to the longitudinal plane, each tubing seat surface being sized and shaped for receiving and seating a tube, whereby the tubing seat surfaces are positioned adjacent to each other such that tubes seated thereon and defining the reference plane are within the opening and the diameters of the tubes being greater than the distance between the edges of the openings for interference fitting of the tubes within the recessed region.