Pipe hanger

Claim 1

A PIPE HANGER COMPRISING A RELATIVELY STIFF FLEXIBLE STRAP OF SET-RETAINING MATERIAL BENT TO A DEFINE A SUPPORT PORTION INCLUDING A FLAT CENTRAL PART WITH A SECURING MEANS APERTURE AND ALSO INCLUDING TWO SIDE PARTS OF UNEQUAL LENGTH BENT FROM OPPOSITE ENDS OF THE CENTRAL PART IN GENERALLY THE SAME DIRECTION, A PIPE-ENCIRCLING PORTION OF THE STRAP JOINED TO AND CURVING AWAY FROM THE LONGER OF SAID SIDE PARTS AND THE SUPPORT PORTION AND CURVING PARTIALLY BACK TOWARD THE SUPPORT PORTION AND THE SHORTER SIDE PART, SAID ENCIRCLING PORTION INCLUDING A FIRST CURVED PART JOINED AT ONE END TO SAID LONGER PART, AN INTERMEDIATE FLATTENED PART EXTENDING FROM THE OTHER END OF THE FIRST CURVED PART, AND A SECOND CURVED PART CONNECTION AT ONE END TO THE INTERMEDIATE PART AND SUBSTANTIALLY CONFORMING TO THE SURFACE CURVATURE O THE PIPE TO BE SUPPORTED, ONE END PORTION OF THE STRAP EXTENDING GENERALLY RADIALLY OUTWARDLY OF THE SECOND CURVED PART AT THE OTHER END THEREOF, A TRANSVERSE SLOT IN SAID ONE END PORTION, AND A WEAKENING SLOT EXTENDING LONGITUDINALLY OF THE STRAP IN SAID INTERMEDIATE FLATTENED PART AND HAVING AN END IN TOOL-ALIGNING RELATION TO SAID SECURING MEANS APERTURE, SAID SHORTER SIDE PART BEING BENT ON A SMALLER RADIUS THAN THE LONGER PART AND DEFINING THE OTHER END PORTION OF THE STRAP, A LOCKING TONGUE EXTENDING AT AN ANGLE FROM THE END OF THE SHORTER PART, SAID ONE END PORTION AND TONGUE BEING SPACED APART BY A DISTANCE NOT GREATLY LESS THAN THE DIAMETER OF THE PIPE AND ARRANGED FOR PROJECTION OF THE TONGUE THROUGH THE TRANSVERSE SLOT UPON BENDING OF THE ENCIRCLING PORTION INTO EMBRACING RELATION ABOUT THE PIPE, THE TONGUE BEING DEFORMABLE IN PROJECTED POSITION TO LOCK THE STRAP END PORTIONS AGAINST SEPARATION AND HOLD THE ENCIRCLING PORTION UNDER SLIGHT TENSION, SAID LONGER PART HAVING A LENGTH APPROXIMATELY EQUAL TO THE LENGTH OF THE SHORTER PART PLUS THE DISTANCE BETWEEN THE TRANSVERSE SLOT AND THE SECOND CURVED PART, AND SAID ENCIRCLING PORTION HAVING A LENGTH LESS THAN THE CIRCUMFERENCE OF THE PIPE BY APPROXIMATELY THE DISTANCE BETWEEN THE LONGER PART AND THE ONE END PORTION IN SAID EMBRACING RELATION, THE STIFFNESS OF SAID STRAP BEING SUFFICIENT TO ALLOW THE ENCIRCLING PORTION TO SUSTAIN THE WEIGHT OF AT LEAST THE ADJACENT PORTION OF A PIPE RECEIVED IN THE HANGER BEFORE SAID SECUREMENT OF THE OPPOSITE END PORTION BY THE TONGUE.