Patent ID: 7845598

Claim:
A method of installing a piping system, comprising: applying at least one mark to a surface along a line parallel to a desired center line path of a segment of the piping system; selecting a plurality of pipe mounting brackets, each said pipe mounting bracket comprising: a mounting portion including a mounting face for being disposed in opposed facing relation to a planar surface and secured thereto with at least one fastener; and a pipe supporting portion projecting from said mounting portion in a plane generally perpendicular to said mounting face and including an arm portion having a generally arched surface sized and extending to support at least a portion of an outer circumferential surface of a pipe and thereby defining a pipe receiving receptacle, wherein each said mounting portion includes a predetermined, indicator part disposed at a predetermined lateral and vertical position with respect to a radial center of a circular part of said arched surface of said respective bracket; and aligning said indicator part of each said selected bracket with said at least one mark and fastening each said selected bracket to said surface with at least one fastener, wherein said step of selecting a plurality of pipe mounting brackets comprises selecting at least two pipe mounting brackets having arched surfaces with respectively different radii so as to be respectively adapted to receive a pipe segment of differing diameter from the other, and wherein the radial center of said arched surface of each said bracket is disposed at a same lateral and vertical position with respect to said predetermined, indicator part of their respective mounting portion, so that after the indicator part of each said selected bracket is aligned with the at least one mark and fastened to the surface, the radial center of the arched surface of each said bracket is disposed along a single, common axis that is parallel to the line along which the at least one mark was applied, and, after said aligning and fastening, placing an elongated pipe into the pipe receiving receptacle of each said selected pipe mounting bracket so that said elongated pipe extends between and is supported by said brackets.