Patent ID: 8931977
Filing Date: 2015-01-13
Classification: B23K,F16L

Abstract:
1. A pipe support for supporting a pipe section off a ground surface, the pipe support comprising: an outer support wall having a generally upwardly tapered frustoconical shape and a first bottom end for engaging the ground surface and a first top end; an inner support wall spaced inwardly from the outer support wall and haying a generally downwardly tapered frustoconical shape with a second bottom end for engaging the ground surface, and a second top end, the second bottom end being spaced apart from the first bottom end; a connecting portion for maintaining the outer support wall and the inner support wall in a fixed, spaced apart relationship and extending between the first and second top ends the first and second top ends together with the connecting portion forming the pipe saddle; the pipe saddle being interrupted by at least a pair of radially extending and intersecting grooves for stacking of three or more like pipe supports in an interlocking, non-nesting and stacked relationship; and the inner support wall including, a plurality of spaced apart inner shaped wall sections extending between the grooves and interconnected by intermediate inner spacing webs located below the grooves and the outer support wall comprises a plurality of spaced apart outer shaped wall sections extending between the grooves and interconnected by recessed intermediate outer spacing, webs located below the grooves, and the connecting portion includes connecting: sections extending between the grooves.