Patent ID: 7788995

Claim:
Apparatus for torquing an angled pipe fitting relative to a fixed threaded end of pipe having a longitudinal axis, wherein the angled fitting has an axial arm and a lateral arm each with a threaded fitting end, and wherein the torque must be applied about an axis of the axial arm of the angled fitting while it is coaxially aligned with the longitudinal axis of the fixed threaded pipe end, the apparatus comprising: a socket that has an axial drive attachment defining a socket rotational axis, wherein the axial drive attachment facilitates attachment of an axial driving device to the apparatus; a fitting cavity axially distal to the axial drive attachment, wherein: the fitting cavity comprises an axial canal about the socket rotational axis, and a lateral canal that extends laterally outward relative to the socket rotational axis; the fitting cavity opens axially outward and is shaped and dimensioned to enable axial insertion of the angled fitting into both the axial canal and the lateral canal; the lateral canal comprises a socket flange extending at least partly across the lateral canal, and having a socket flange opening that is smaller than an outside dimension of a fitting flange of the angled fitting's lateral arm; the socket flange is positioned to be laterally outward of the angled fitting's lateral arm fitting flange when the angled fitting is axially inserted into the fitting cavity, thereby holding the lateral arm against lateral movement out of the fitting cavity; the axial canal is shaped and dimensioned to receive the axial arm of the angled fitting and to hold it such that the axial arm axis is coaxial with the socket rotational axis; and the lateral canal is shaped and dimensioned to receive the lateral arm of the fitting and to hold it against torque about the axial arm axis.