Conduit hanger assembly for automotive and similar uses

Claim 2

A conduit hanger assembly for automotive exhaust system components and the like including elongate fastening means adapted adjacent one end to be secured to a support structure, an annular elastomeric member, connecting means securing said elastomeric member to the other end of said fastening means, and a spring hanger comprising a torsion spring having a coil body and arms which are integral extensions of the opposite ends of the coil ends which form spaced apart tong arms between which an exhaust system component can be inserted to expand and be gripped by the tong arms, the coil body of said hanger being positioned about the periphery of said elastomeric member in frictional engagement therewith, the internal diameter of said coil body in an unstressed condition being less than the outside diameter of said elastomeric member whereby, by contraction of said tong arms forming spring extensions the frictional engagement between said coil and said elastomeric member can be reduced sufficiently to permit relative angular adjustment between said elastomeric member and said hanger and whereby expansion of the coil tong arm causes contraction of said coil into tighter immobilizing frictional engagement with said elastomeric member.

Claim 3

The conduit hanger of claim 1 wherein said connecting means extends through the body of said elastomeric member and said connecting means, elastomeric member and spring hanger coil body are concentrically oriented.

Claim 4

The conduit hanger of claim 1 wherein said fastening means includes a yoke between the arms of which said elastomeric member is compressed and upon which said elastomeric member is fixed by said connecting means supported at its opposite ends by the yoke arms and extending through the elastomeric member.

Claim 5

A conduit hanger assembly for automotive exhaust system components and the like including elongate fastening means adapted adjacent one end to be secured to a support structure to position said fastening means such that its longitudinal axis lies substantially vertically, an annular elastOmeric member, connecting means securing said elastomeric member to the other end of said fastening means, and a spring hanger comprising a torsion spring having a coil body and arms which are integral extensions of the opposite ends of the coil ends which form spaced apart tong arms between which an exhaust system component can be inserted to expand and be gripped by the tong arms, the coil body of said hanger being positioned about the periphery of said elastomeric member in frictional engagement therewith, the internal diameter of said coil body in an unstressed condition being less than the outside diameter of said elastomeric member whereby, by contraction of said tong arms forming spring extensions the frictional engagement between said coil and said elastomeric member can be reduced sufficiently to permit relative angular adjustment between said elastomeric member and said hanger by pivotally swinging said hanger about said elastomeric member such that an exhaust component gripped by said arms will be laterally offset relative to said vertical axis and whereby expansion of the coil tong arm causes contraction of said coil into tighter immobilizing frictional engagement with said elastomeric member and the holding of said exhaust component against the force of gravity laterally offset from said vertical axis.

Claim 6

A conduit hanger assembly for automotive exhaust system components and the like including elongate fastening means adapted adjacent one end to be secured to a support structure to position said fastening means such that its longitudinal axis lies substantially vertically, an annular elastOmeric member, connecting means securing said elastomeric member to the other end of said fastening means, and a spring hanger comprising a torsion spring having a coil body and arms which are integral extensions of the opposite ends of the coil ends which form spaced apart tong arms between which an exhaust system component can be inserted to expand and be gripped by the tong arms, the coil body of said hanger being positioned about the periphery of said elastomeric member in frictional engagement therewith, the internal diameter of said coil body in an unstressed condition being less than the outside diameter of said elastomeric member whereby, by contraction of said tong arms forming spring extensions the frictional engagement between said coil and said elastomeric member can be reduced sufficiently to permit relative angular adjustment between said elastomeric member and said hanger by pivotally swinging said hanger about said elastomeric member such that an exhaust component gripped by said arms will be laterally offset relative to said vertical axis and whereby expansion of the coil tong arm causes contraction of said coil into tighter immobilizing frictional engagement with said elastomeric member and the holding of said exhaust component against the force of gravity laterally offset from said vertical axis.