Patent ID: 7425023
Filing Date: 2008-09-16
Classification: F16L,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A profile clamp comprising profiled segments extending successively in a circumferential direction of the clamp and clampable by at least one clamping device, wherein the profiled segments have an essentially inverse trough-shaped profile, wherein the profiled segments each have diverging side walls for receiving therebetween flanges with equal diameters provided on ends of pipes to be connected by the clamp, wherein the flanges are pressed toward each other by the side walls when the clamp is clamped, wherein gaps having a bottom each are provided between adjacent profiled segments, further comprising resilient metal strips mounted in each gap, wherein, in an untensioned state of the clamp, each metal strip has a straight middle portion which has a distance from the bottom of the gap which is greater than two times the thickness of the bottom of the profiled segments, wherein the metal strip extends transversely of the plane of the clamp and is loosely fastened through lateral arms of the metal strip at the bottom of the gap, wherein the profiled segments are attached to the inner side of a flexible clamp strip, wherein the lateral arms end radially outside of the clamp strip and the straight middle portion is located radially inwardly of the clamp strip, and wherein the straight middle portion is bent outwardly in the tensioned state of the profiled clamp.