Hydraulic and earth engineering – Subterranean or submarine pipe or cable laying – retrieving,... – With protection or indication of pipe or trench
Patent
1976-07-15
1978-11-21
Shapiro, Jacob
Hydraulic and earth engineering
Subterranean or submarine pipe or cable laying, retrieving,...
With protection or indication of pipe or trench
138105, 138106, 248 49, 248 85, F16L 100
Patent
active
041260120
ABSTRACT:
A method and apparatus for supporting pipe employing a plurality of spaced pipe carriers driven into the ground. Each pipe carrier includes a straight rigid body formed from rod stock of rectangular, i.e., square, cross-section. The lower portion of the body is provided with opposed, rigid upwardly diverging barbs, also of rectangular, i.e., square, cross-section. The upper end portion of the body carries a rigid pipe cradle. In one embodiment, the cradle is formed by spaced, laterally projecting, brackets. In other embodiments, the cradle is curvilinear, opening upwardly or downwardly. In still other embodiments, the cradle is an annulus. The cradles and barbs are formed of the same rectangular, i.e., square, rod stock as the body. The opposed surfaces of each cradle is in the same common plane with the opposed surfaces of the body and these planes are perpendicular to the surfaces of the barbs. The cradles, radially, partially or completely circumscribe the periphery of the pipe. In one embodiment the cradle is connected to a sleeve so as to be moveable in a vertical path along the body.
The method includes embedding the barbs in the unfilled dirt, by repeated stricking the upper end of pipe carrier. Then, back filling the dirt and mounting the pipe in the cradle followed by covering the pipe with fill dirt.
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