Patent ID: 8899274

Claim:
The method of securing a fiberglass pipe flange to a fiberglass pipe having a first end, comprising the steps of: forming an outwardly tapered portion on the first end of the pipe; creating a tapered wall surface in the pipe flange around the central opening thereof with the tapered wall surface corresponding to said outwardly tapered portion at the first end of the pipe; slipping the pipe flange inwardly over the tapered portion at the first end of the pipe; providing a tapered split fiberglass collet with the taper thereof corresponding to said tapered portion at the first end of the pipe; spreading the tapered split collet; slipping the tapered split collet inwardly over the tapered portion at the first end of the pipe; positioning the tapered split collet so that the tapered split collet embraces said tapered portion on the first end of the pipe; adhesively securing said tapered split collet to said tapered portion on the first end of the pipe; positioning the pipe flange so that said tapered wall surface of the pipe flange embraces said collet; and adhesively securing the pipe flange to said collet.