Patents Assigned to Easy-Con Ltd.
  • Device for facilitating manual gripping of pipes and connectors
    Patent number: 6516496
    Abstract: A device for facilitating manual gripping of pipes and connectors includes first and second elements hingedly interconnected and biased open by a spring element. Each element includes a channel with projections deployed to define gripping features for gripping a roughly cylindrical object of given outer diameter. The first and second elements provide grasp surfaces which, in the closed position, lie within a cylindrical volume of diameter four times the given outer diameter and generally circumscribe the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2003
    Assignee: Easy-Con Ltd.
    Inventor: Amir Ekron