Housing for covering exposed pipe lengths

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A HOUSING ASSEMBLY FOR COVERING AN EXPOSED SECTION OF A PIPE THAT RUNS ALONG A CORNER PORTION DEFINED BY ADJACENT WALL SURFACES COMPRISING: A PLURALITY OF BRACKETS CONNECTED TO SAID CORNER DEFINING WALL SURFACES AT SPACED INTERVALS ALONG THE LENGTH OF AN EXPOSED PIPE EXTENDING ALONG THE CORNER PORTION DEFINED BY SAID ADJACENT WALL SURFACES, EACH OF SAID BRACKETS INCLUDING AN ANGULAR MEMBER HAVING A VERTICAL LEG PORTION, A HORIZONTAL LEG PORTION, AND INCLINED WEB PORTION INTERCONNECTING SAID VERTICAL AND HORIZONTAL LEG PORTIONS AT THE JUNCTION THEREOF WHEREBY THE SECTION OF SAID PIPE TO BE COVERED IS DISPOSED IN THE ANGLE DEFINED BY SAID BRACKET LEG PORTIONS. EACH OF SAID VERTICAL AND HORIZONTAL LEG PORTIONS AND THE INTERCONNECTED INCLINED WEB PORTION EACH BEING DISPOSED SUBSTANTIALLY TANGENT TO THE CIRCUMFERENCE OF THE PIPE DISPOSED IN THE ANGLE OF SAID BRACKET SO THAT THE SIZING OF A PARTICULAR BRACKET MAY BE READILY DETERMINED BY THE CIRCUMFERENCE OF THE PIPE ADAPTED TO BE CRADLED THEREIN, SAID VERTICAL AND HORIZONTAL LEG PORTIONS EACH HAVING THEIR RESPECTIVE FREE END PORTIONS BENT INWARDLY TO DEFINE AN ACUTE ANGLE WITH RESPECT TO THE ADJACENT WALL SURFACE, SAID FREE ENDS OF EACH LEG PORTION BEING REVERSELY BENT TO DEFINE A LONGITUDINALLY EXTENDING ROUNDED EDGE, AND AN EXTENDED COVER ADAPTED TO SNAP OVER THE ROUNDED EDGES OF SAID PLURALITY OF BRACKETS, SAID COVER INCLUDING A MEMBER HAVING ANGULARLY DISPOSED LEG PORTIONS ADAPTED TO SHIELD SAID PIPE SECTION, THE RESPECTIVE LEG PORTIONS OF SAID COVER HAVING THEIR RESPECTIVE FREE END PORTIONS INWARDLY BENT TO SNAP OVER THE ROUNDED EDGES OF SAID BRACKETS, SAID BRACKETS AND COVER BEING FORMED OF COMPLEMENTARY RESILIENT MATERIAL WHEREBY SAID COVER IS FRICTIONALLY SNAPPED INTO POSITIVE ENGAGEMENT ON SAID BRACKET, SAID COVER BEING COEXTENSIVE IN LENGTH TO THE LENGTH OF SAID EXPOSED PIPE SECTION, AND FASTENING MEANS FOR SECURING THE RESPECTIVE VERTICAL AND HORIZONTAL LEG PORTION OF SAID BRACKETS TO THE ADJACENT WALL SURFACES.