Abstract: A pipe saddle has a pipe supporting cradle connected to a base portion by a web. This base portion includes flanges and is adapted to slidably rest on a supporting surface. Brackets mounting the flanges to the supporting surface permit the saddle to slide between the supporting surface and the brackets in the direction of the axis of the supported pipe, but restrict motion in all other directions. A relatively low coefficient of friction element is removably inserted in a cavity formed in the bottom of the base portion and extends below the bottom surface to engage the supporting surface. The pipe saddle can include a drain channel formed in the upper surface of the cradle and a slot formed in the web to accept a pipe strap.

Abstract: A pipe saddle having a wear block adapted to engage a support surface with respect to which it is free to move. Glass fiber reinforced resin is employed as the outer surface of the saddle. A core is employed in the wear shoe to enable essentially uniform wall thicknesses of glass fiber reinforced resin to be maintained. Reduced frictional resistance to pipe motion relative to a supporting surface is achieved with a shoe insert having a low coefficient of friction relative to that surface on the bearing face of the wear block.