Patent ID: 7594615
Filing Date: 2009-09-29
Classification: A01G

Abstract:
1. A pop-up sprinkler riser-clamp comprising: a clamp member; a U-shaped cut-out in one side of the clamp member, the U-shaped cut-out having a curved inner end within the clamp member, and an open end along the one side of the clamp member; a first longitudinal-continuous narrow width slot located along the U-shaped cut-out that starts from the curved inner end, and having a first pair of parallel spaced apart inner side walls having a fixed first diameter; a second longitudinal narrow width slot located along the U-shaped cut-out that starts from the open end of the clamp member, and having a second pair of parallel spaced apart inner side walls having a fixed second diameter, the first diameter of the first parallel spaced apart inner side walls being equal to the second diameter of the second pair of parallel spaced apart side walls, the first longitudinal narrow width slot being spaced apart from the second longitudinal narrow width slot, the first longitudinal narrow width slot being in series to the second longitudinal narrow width slot; and a cylindrical widened cut-out area located between the first longitudinal narrow width slot and the second longitudinal narrow width slot, the cylindrical widened cut-out area having a fixed diameter larger than the diameter of both the first and the second longitudinal narrow width slots, the cylindrical widened cut-out located substantially in a mid-section between the curved inner end within the clamp member and the open end along one side of the clamp member, so that the cylindrical widened cut-out area is spaced apart from both the curved inner end and the open end of the clamp member, wherein raising a sprinkler head to a raised position with an exposed neck extended up above a sprinkler base, and sliding the cylindrical widened cut-out area of the U-shaped opening down about the exposed next neck, followed by sliding the clamp member so that the neck underneath sprinkler head is held within the first pair of parallel spaced apart inner side walls of the first longitudinal narrow width slot of the U-shaped opening and against the curved inner end of the clamp member restricts the sprinkler head from moving back into the sprinkler base.