Patent ID: 8353143

Claim:
A method of seismic bracing, the method comprising: placing a round sway brace substantially perpendicular to a service pipe; after the placing, engaging the round sway brace and the service pipe with a sway brace fitting clamp, wherein the engaging does not require movement of either the service pipe or the round sway brace; and tightening the sway brace fitting clamp to couple together the round sway brace and the service pipe; wherein the engaging includes: placing a U-shape bolt of the clamp around the service pipe; and placing a pair of hooks of the clamp around the round sway brace; wherein the hooks are coupled to legs of the U-shape bolt before and during the placing the bolt and the placing the hooks; wherein at least one of the engaging and the tightening includes having a central curved body of the U-shape bolt contact the service pipe; wherein the tightening includes moving the hooks toward the service pipe by tuning nuts of the clamp that are on threaded portions of the legs of the U-shape bolt; wherein the round sway brace is a sway brace pipe; and wherein the moving causes sharp tips of the legs to penetrate the sway brace pipe.