User:Mcapdevila/U-Pipe Clamp

A U-Pipe Clamp is a pipe clamp in the shape of the letter U with a fixation hole on both ends.

U-Pipe Clamps have primarily been used to support pipework, pipes through which fluids and gasses pass. As such, U-Pipe Clamps were measured using pipe-work engineering speak. A U-Pipe Clamp would be described by the size of pipe it was supporting. U-Pipe Clamps are also used to hold ropes together.

The nominal bore of a pipe is actually a measurement of the inside diameter of the pipe. Engineers are interested in this because they design a pipe by the amount of fluid / gas it can transport.

As U-Pipe Clamps are being used by a much wider audience to clamp any kind of tubing / round bar, then a convenient measurement system needs to be used.

Four elements uniquely define any U-Pipe Clamp:


 * 1) Material type (for example: bright zinc-plated steel)
 * 2) Hole dimension (for example: 2 mm)
 * 3) Inside diameter (for example: 50 mm - the distance between the legs)
 * 4) Inside height (for example: 50 mm)