Patent ID: 7644958
Filing Date: 2010-01-12
Classification: F16L

Abstract:
1. A compression fitting for a heating and/or sanitary pipe, comprising a fitting body comprising a supporting sleeve adapted to have a pipe end slid thereonto, and a conical abutment face, a complementary part for the fitting body, which is provided with a conical receiving face for abutment by the abutment face of the fitting body, a clamping ring encompassing the pipe end which can be slid on the supporting sleeve, and a lock nut having an inner thread and being adapted to be screwed to the complementary part, for pressing the clamping ring against the fitting body and for clamping abutment on the pipe end in the condition when the pipe end has been slid onto the supporting sleeve, characterized in that the fitting body comprises radially protruding fixing projections for axially fixing the fitting body inside the lock nut to the inner thread or to other internal face structures thereof, to prevent the lock nut from being inadvertently detached before it is screwed to the complementary part.