Abstract: A modular utility system and a method of installing a modular utility system. The modular utility system having a frame configured for mounting to a structure. A mount is coupled to the frame. The mount is adjustably movable with respect to the frame in a first direction, and the mount is securable to the frame in a plurality of positions. A conduit is coupled to the mount. The conduit is adjustably movable with respect to the mount in a second direction that is generally perpendicular to the first direction. The mount is configured to secure the conduit in a plurality of positions. Multiple conduits may be secured to the frame with mounts. The conduits may be configured for containing water, air, and/or wastewater.

Abstract: A clamp includes first and second bands, a pair of strut attachment legs, a screw, and a screw housing. Each band has a first end and a second end. The first band defines slots extending across a width thereof and disposed adjacent to the second end thereof. Each strut attachment leg is fixed to the first end of one of the bands. The screw housing receives the second ends of the bands and captures the screw while allowing the screw to rotate. The clamp secures a tube to a strut when the clamp is placed over the tube, the strut attachment legs are positioned relative to the strut so that notches in the strut attachment legs receive at least one of the flanges on the strut, and the screw is rotated to draw the first band further into the screw housing and thereby tighten the clamp around the tube.

Abstract: Techniques for providing multi-directional receiving antenna arrays are described herein. According to an embodiment, an apparatus includes an antenna array including multiple antennas and an orientation system. The orientation system includes multiple orientation marks and multiple alignment marks. At least one of the multiple antennas is configured to be positioned toward a respective station transmitter location based at least partially on an alignment of one of the multiple orientation marks relative to one of the multiple alignment marks.

Abstract: A band heater assembly for heating an object includes a band heater that extends around at least a portion of a perimeter of the object. The band heater includes a cable and a band. The cable includes a resistive element, a first cable end and a second cable end. The resistive element generates thermal energy based on a current received from a power source. The first cable end and the second cable end are connected to respective ends of the band heater assembly. The band is connected to the cable and transfers a first portion of the thermal energy to an exterior surface of the object. At least a portion of the cable is exposed from the band heater to contact the exterior surface when the band heater assembly is connected to the object.

Abstract: An underground fluid storage tank hold-down system for holding down an underground cylindrical fluid storage tank in a hole that has been excavated, the underground tank hold-down system comprising a multiplicity of paired hold-down straps having a first end and a second end. A multiplicity of paired deadmen anchors are adapted to be placed to either side of the tank when the tank is in the hole. The deadmen anchors each have anchor upstanding loops. A tank hold-down assembly is provided comprising a take-up coupler assembly having a pair of arched sections, having hooks thereon, including a first arched section and a second arched section and a threaded engagement assembly. The threaded engagement assembly includes a threaded member and a receiving member adapted to receive part of the threaded member. The straps engage the hooks and the anchor upstanding loops.

Abstract: Profiled clamp that includes two half shells, each having a clamping head on a respective first end and a connection geometry on a respective second end. The profiled clamp also includes a clamping element to which the clamping heads are connected and a spring element preloaded to bear against an inside of the half shells. At least one of the two half shells is tiltable with respect to the clamping element.

Abstract: A retention fastener includes a body panel and first and second leg members connected to the body panel by first leg member portions. Both leg members co-extend away from a body panel first panel face and have a second portion directed back toward the body panel. The first and second leg members include at least one retention feature connected to the second leg member portion, including: a single tooth wing having a smooth curved surface extending to a single wing retention tooth, and a multiple tooth wing positioned beside the single tooth wing. The multiple tooth wing has individual teeth on a curved surface sequentially increasing in height with respect to the curved surface. The multiple tooth wing is oriented in a superimposed position with respect to the single tooth wing so the individual teeth extend outwardly with respect to the smooth curved surface of the single tooth wing.

Abstract: An expansion ring assembly seals a gasket with respect to an annular wall of a rigid structure. The expansion ring assembly includes two arcuate expansion ring bands that cooperate to define a generally circular profile. At one side of the expansion ring assembly, a first pair of ends of the expansion ring bands overlap and include a ratcheting mechanism which allows the ring to incrementally expand but not to contract. At another location of the expansion ring assembly, a second pair of ends are joined by a drive mechanism for engaging and driving apart the opposing ends of an expansion ring to thereby non-incrementally expand the ring. The ratchet mechanism may be used to initially set and hold the expansion ring against a gasket in a desired position and to provide an initial expansion pressure, i.e., for a coarse adjustment. The drive mechanism may then be used to provide a final expansion pressure of the gasket, i.e., for a fine adjustment.

Abstract: A clamping device (1) for bridging two elements (2a, 2b, 200a), which can be brought closer to each other, with at least one tensioning belt (6, 60) connected with an element (2a, 200a). The tensioning belt engages into an allocated turnbuckle (4) connected with the other element (2b) and is movable with it. The tensioning belt (6, 60) and the turnbuckle (4) are each mountable on the allocated element (2a, 2b, 200a) by a positive plug-in connection. The elements, which can be brought closer to each other (2a, 2b, 200a), are provided with formed retaining structure (10, 100) defined as projections emerging from their plane. The end portion of the tensioning belt (6, 60) facing away from the turnbuckle (4) and a turnbuckle belt (5) defined as a belt lug being applied on the turnbuckle (4) and in opposite direction to the tensioning belt (6, 60) are provided with counter-retaining structure (13, 130) which can be attached on the retaining means (10, 100) of the elements.

Abstract: A hose clamp includes a clamping band, a clamping device and a positioning arrangement, wherein the positioning arrangement has at least one positioner with a base and a claw for being pressed into a hose wall. The claw has a portion protruding inwardly from the base in a pressing direction, wherein the claw has an end which forms with the inwardly protruding section an obtuse angle (?).

Abstract: Accessory mounting apparatus for a gun, the apparatus including a size-adjustable and quick-release clamp for holding an accessory.

Abstract: A hose clamp (1) comprises bands (2) forming an open ring. The ends of the open ring have band loops (3, 4) arranged around housing portions (5, 6), between which housing portions (5, 6) a clamping screw (7) with a head (8) is arranged. The bands (3, 4) adjacent to the housing portions (5, 6) have slots (9, 10). The band loop (4) along the slot (10), at least adjacent to the head (8) of the clamping screw, is turned on both sides of the slot (10) in such a manner that the distance between the band portions (11) turned adjacent to the slot (10) adjacent to the head (8) of the clamping screw is greater than the outer diameter of the head (8) of the clamping screw.

Abstract: A hose clamp includes a binding belt, which has a recess and a protruding portion respectively disposed at front and back sides of one end thereof, a plurality of through holes disposed around the recess, and a plurality of retaining portions in communication with the through holes, and a screw holder, which holds a screw for joining the ends of the binding belt and, which has two mounting plates respectively stopped at two sides of the protruding portion and fastened to the through holes of the binding belt and a plurality of locating rods respectively extended from two sides of each mounting plate and respectively fastened to the retaining portions.

Abstract: A connection of a hose clamp and a hose has a rubber-elastic ring that surrounds the hose detachably and with elastic pretension. The ring is positioned underneath a clamp strap of the hose clamp. The ring has radial hook-shaped first projections for locking the clamp strap of the hose clamp between the first projections by engaging across edges of the clamp strap. The first projections are formed on edges of the ring. The thickness of the ring in an area located axially between the first projections is 5% to 9% of the wall thickness of the hose.

Abstract: A portable grinding machine (10) includes an elongated housing (12, 14) and an output shaft (16) projecting at a right angle to the housing axis for receiving a disk-shaped rotary clamping tool. The output shaft is encompassed by a substantially cylindrical clamping collar (30), on which a shell-like protective cover (20) is secured in a tensile manner against rotation and axial displacement and which serves for encompassing the clamping tool (18) and which can be attached on the clamping collar (30) with a ring-shaped tensioning belt (28). The tensioning belt (28) has sharp-edged projections (32) projecting to the clamping collar, which upon clamping, born into the clamping collar and are held there in a form-locking manner (a shell-like tensioning band).

Abstract: A clamp has two injection moulded tangs 1, 2 hinges together by a pin 3 and held closed by a wing nut 4 and a screw 5 having a cross-head 6. The tangs each have a tapered groove 7 running around inside them. In use, this groove engages flanges F on tubes T with a seal S therebetween to hold the tubes in sealing relationship with each other. The one tang 2 has a clevis 10 defined by two lugs 11. Each has an overhung recess 12 into which the cross-head 6 of the screw clips. A crossbar 14 connects the lugs remote from their tang, whereby the screw is limited in its angular displacement about the recesses 12, as shown in FIG. 3. The crossbar also stabilises the lugs against relative displacement under load when the nut is tightened. The other tang 1 has a part conical formation 21 on lugs 22 defining a clevis 23 similar to clevis 10. The nut has a complementary conical recess 24. Engagement of the formation 21 in the recess 24 restrains the lugs from separating under load as the nut is tightened.

Abstract: A protrusion provided at one end of a first fitting body is engaged with one of the recesses in a plurality of grooves provided at one end of a second fitting body in the lengthwise direction, whereby the degree of overlapping between the first fitting body and the second fitting body is adjusted. Then, the other end of the first fitting body and the other end of the second fitting body engaging with the recesses and protrusions of a fluted portion of a sensor portion are fixed with a fixing screw. Thus, the other end of the first fitting body and the other end of the second fitting body are drawn near to each other, and a fitting for a bicycle is firmly fixed to the fork or other part thereof.

Abstract: A stand-off assembly to attach to a cylindrical support member. The stand-off assembly includes a first component having a first arcuate portion adapted to conform to an outer surface of the cylindrical support member. The first component has a first attachment upright. A second component has a second arcuate portion adapted to conform to the outer surface of the cylindrical support member and also includes a second attachment upright. The second component is connected to the first component with a hinge connection. The first and second arcuate portions in combination extend substantially around the cylindrical support member and the first and second attachment uprights are parallel but separated from each other when the first and second arcuate portions are extended substantially around the cylindrical support member.

Abstract: A clamping assembly constructed to hold an electrical cable or tube in a fixed position includes retaining and clamping members. A first surface of the retaining member, which may be made from a compliant material, has raised and lowered portions in a particular pattern. One end of the retaining member has a face transverse to the first surface of the retaining member with raised and recessed portions defining a mating relationship with the raised and recessed portions on the first surface of the retaining member. The clamping member may be made from a springlike material and may be disposed in an open loop in an unconstrained relationship. The clamping member may be disposed in a longitudinal slot in the retaining member so as to be encased by the retaining member. The retaining member may be slitted to communicate with the slot for facilitating the disposition of the clamping member in such slot.

Abstract: A joinder of thermoplastic pipes. Current is passed through a coil disposed between the pipes while a clamp is applied to the joinder. The clamp exerts a prevailing force. The coil is rotatable to facilitate alignment of its leads. The current from a power supply is preferably applied for the same time period for all joinder sizes, the current being adjusted to provide correct heat for various sizes.

Abstract: A mold made of steel and intended for manufacturing tubular objects by a centrifugal casting concrete method is formed of two semicylindrical shells having longitudinal flanges to which locking wedges are welded. The locking wedges provided on the two opposing flanges have oblique surfaces cooperating with each other. The oblique surfaces of the locking wedges extend over a plane of separation between two flanges when the mold is in a closed position.

Abstract: A hose clamp with a clamping band having two ends which are drawn together by a screw-type mechanism that includes a first band-tightening member secured near one band end, a second band-tightening member secured near the other band end, and a screw member for drawing together the first and second members; one of these band-tightening members is thereby securely held in place by an end portion of the clamping band externally bent back upon itself and secured to the underlying band portion while the other member is retained by a separate band part which is also externally bent back upon itself with the outer bent-back end portion secured to the underlying band portion of the separate part while the latter is secured to the clamping band itself; to assure a stepless internal configuration of the clamping surfaces of the clamping band, the inner end of the clamping band terminates in a tongue-like extension adapted to engage in a groove-like indentation provided near the other end of the clamping band.

Abstract: A device for coupling adjacent ends of tubular members such as flexible tubular members comprising an elongated open ended tube member having an outside diameter that is approximately the same as the inside diameter of the tubular members to be coupled, a slit formed extending the length of the tube member forming adjacent slit edge surfaces oriented at an angle relative to the radius to the tube member thereat, a pair of aligned strap-like members having opposite ends connected respectively to the tube member on opposite sides of the slit and adjacent ends, cooperatively engagable threaded members connecting the adjacent ends of the strap-like members and adjustable in one direction to move the slit edge surfaces circumferentially relative to each other in one direction and in an opposite direction to move the slit edge surfaces circumferentially in an opposite direction relative to each other, and another threaded member operatively connected to one of the strap-like members on one side of the slit and adju

Abstract: A band device for retaining a tire on a wheel rim in the event that the tyre should become deflated, which band device comprises a first band portion which is part circular for substantially its entire length, a second band portion which is part circular for substantially its entire length and which is substantially the same size as the first band portion, a link portion which is part circular for substantially its entire length and which is for joining the first and second band portions together at one end, and fastener means for joining the first and second band portions together at their other ends whereby the band portions and the link portion are retainable in position around a base of a wheel rim, the link portion having an apertured part for receiving a valve of a tube for a tire.

Abstract: The present invention includes a clamping system comprising two identical clamping components, which cooperate to form a clamp. One end of the clamp component is provided with a male and a female connector such that in the assembled clamping system the male component of one clamp component mates with the female component of the other clamp component to form a pivotal connection. This pivotal connection allows the opposite ends of the clamp components to be separated to allow the clamp to be placed over an object to be clamped, such as a pipe, while still maintaining the pivotal connection. The clamping system, according to the present invention, is simple in structure, simplifies the production and packaging operation, and is more convenient to use. The present invention may also function as a coupling. In this coupling function, two pipes or two such elements would be coupled to each other by this invention, so as to create a continuous mechanical and/or hydraulic system.