Patent ID: 7325776

Claim:
A suspensory fastener for piping, with which upper end attachment portions are fixed to an anchor, embedded in a ceiling slab concrete, or to a turnbuckle, connected to a hanger bolt that is continuous to the anchor, the fastener comprising: two members, where the two members are a long band and short band; the long band having a curved portion of a length necessary for grasping a pipe at a location approximately 45 degrees with respect to a vertical line passing through a center of the pipe, having a lower end bent and formed to a lower end coupling portion, and having a bolt and a nut disposed in a penetration hole in the coupling portion; the short band having a curved portion of a length necessary for holding the periphery of the pipe at positions at which the curved portion of the long band does not exist, having a lower end bent and formed to a lower end coupling portion, and being provided with an opening with a guiding entrance for engagement with the bolt provided at the lower end coupling portion of the long band; a coupled state maintaining means, which maintains a coupled state wherein the two lower end coupling portions are overlapped with each other with the opening with guiding entrance of the lower end coupling portion of the short band being engaged with the bolt of the nut and bolt provided at the lower end coupling portion of the long band; the coupled state maintaining means comprising a notched portion, provided in one of the lower end coupling portion of the long band and the lower end coupling portion of the short band, and a protruding portion provided in the other of the lower end coupling portion of the long band and the lower end coupling portion of the short band, the protruding portion engaging the notched portion; and coupling and releasing of the coupling of the lower end coupling portion of the long band with the lower end coupling portion of the short band being enabled without separation of the bolt and nut provided at the lower end coupling portion of the long band.