Uponor Innovation Ab

Maik Altmann

Rainer Dittmar

Mika Savolainen

Stephan Müller

Jörg Clauβen

Hermann Oing

Thomas Vogel

Jörg Claussen

A press fitting for a pipe connection is provided. The press fitting includes a fitting body for connecting the press fitting to a pipe, a press sleeve fixed to the fitting body and having a substantially cylindrical pressing portion and at least one projecting element which delimits the substantially cylindrical pressing portion in the axial direction, and a tubular banderole which surrounds the substantially cylindrical pressing region of the pressing sleeve, wherein the tubular banderole is arranged rotatably relative to a surface of the pressing sleeve, is held in the cylindrical pressing region by the at least one projecting element and is at least partially destroyed when the pressing sleeve is pressed with a pressing tool.

Press fitting for a pipe joint and method for its manufacture

A fitting, particularly for connecting two pipes, comprising: a support sleeve (), having a first connection segment () at a first end, and having a second connection segment at an opposite second end, wherein at least the first connection segment () is formed so that a pipe segment () can be pushed onto it and having a middle segment () disposed between the first and the second connection segment (), wherein the middle segment () comprises a fixing element () extending at least partially around the support sleeve and having a separable ring element () having an inner diameter substantially corresponding to an outer diameter of the middle segment () and designed for being placed on the support sleeve () and being retained by the fixing element () in the middle segment () in a fixed position.

Fitting for a pipe

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Zeil am Main, Germany

Maik Altmann