Patent ID: 8400156

Claim:
A method of marking a service tee of a conduit to be buried, comprising: attaching the service tee to the buried conduit such that a circular access port of the service tee is vertically aligned and centered over a centerline of the buried conduit; and releasably attaching a marker fixture to the service tee using a flexible attachment sleeve which provides a friction fit with a cap of the access port, the marker fixture including a generally circular disk marker, the flexible attachment sleeve being fastened at one end concentrically to the disk marker, and the flexible attachment sleeve having a diameter which is smaller than a diameter of the disk marker such that a wire coil of a the disk marker of the marker fixture is concentric with and lying above the access port, wherein said attaching further captures a rigid stiffener plate between the cap of the access port and a closed end portion of the attachment sleeve.