Plumbing equipment having eye-bolt securing means

Claim 1

IN COMBINATION, THREE LENGTHS OF PIPE ELEMENTS, CONSISTING OF TWO SEPARATED PIPE ELEMENTS, AND A THIRD INTERMEDIATE PIPE ELEMENT INTERPOSED BETWEEN SAID TWO SEPARATED PIPE ELEMENTS IN WHICH TWO OF SAID THREE PIPE ELEMENTS EACH HAS A BELL END FORMED INTEGRALLY WITH A PERFORATED FLANGE, SAID FLANGE HAVING A PLURALITY OF HOLES EXTENDING THERETHROUGH AND IN WHICH THE OTHER PIPE ELEMENT HAS AT LEAST ONE SPIGOT END; SAID THREE PIPE ELEMENTS HAVING AT LEAST TWO BELL ENDS AND AT LEAST TWO SPIGOT ENDS; THE JOINTS BETWEEN ONE OF SAID PIPE ELEMENTS AND A SECOND SAID PIPE ELEMENT BEING A JOINT BETWEEN A BELL END AND A SPIGOT END AND THE JOINT BETWEEN SAID SECOND PIPE ELEMENT AND THE THIRD PIPE ELEMENT BEING ALSO A JOINT BETWEEN A BELL END AND A SPIGOT END, ONE OF SAID SPIGOT ENDS BEING INSERTED IN THE BELL END OF ONE OF SAID PAIR OF BELL END PIPE ELEMENTS, AND THE OTHER SPIGOT END BEING INSERTED IN THE BELL END OF THE OTHER OF SAID PAIR OF BELL END PIPE ELEMENTS; A PLURALITY OF THREADED RODS EXTENDING ALONG THE LENGTH OF SAID INTERMEDIATE PIPE ELEMENT, PROVIDED FOR CONNECTING SAID PAIR OF SEPARATED FLANGED PIPE ELEMENTS TOGETHER; A PLURALITY OF EYE-BOLTS FOR THE FLANGE OF EACH OF SAID FLANGED ELEMENTS, EACH SAID EYE-BOLT HAVING A THREADED PORTION AND AN EYE PORTION AND EACH HAVING THE EYE PORTION BENT AT RIGHT ANGLES TO THE THREADED PORTION, AND THE THREADED PORTION OF EACH EYE-BOLT EXTENDING THROUGH ONE OF THE HOLES OF THE ASSOCIATED FLANGE AND THE EYE PORTION OF EACH HAVING ONE END OF ONE OF SAID RODS EXTENDING THROUGH IT; AND MEANS COMPRISING NUTS SECURED ONTO SAID THREADED RODS FOR ADJUSTABLY HOLDING SAID EYE-BOLTS FROM MOVEMENT AWAY FROM EACH OTHER AND THEREBY JOINING SAID FLANGES AND SAID FLANGED PIPE ELEMENTS TOGETHER.