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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 18, 2023
Filed:
Apr. 20, 2022
Carolina Components Group, Inc., Morrisville, NC (US);
Clamp Products, Llc, Grand Rapids, MI (US);
Lawrence George Morano, III, Lakeway, TX (US);
Andrew Neal Gilje, Cary, NC (US);
John Hobson Cooling, Jr., Cary, NC (US);
Martin Kim Mund, Reed City, MI (US);
Kevin Russell Leiter, Traverse City, MI (US);
Other;
Abstract
A clamp with two segments and a process for applying a first clamp segment to a pair of flanges for adjacent fluid flow elements so that the first clamp segment is retained by the pair of flanges after application. Steps including 1) aligning a first flange with a second flange to form the pair of flanges; and 2) elastically deforming the first clamp segment to capture into the first clamp segment an arc of more than 180 degrees of the pair of flanges with the arc being sufficiently more than 180 degrees that after capture of the pair of flanges that the first clamp segment cannot be disengaged from the pair of flanges without application of sufficient force to elastically deform the first clamp segment to expand sufficiently to allow removal of the pair of flanges. Otherwise the first clamp segment is retained.