Drain trough member and its connector

Claim 1

A drain trough comprising, a plurality of longitudinally arranged plastic round pipes, each pipe having a plurality of circumferentially spaced slits formed in an outer wall of the pipe and extending along a longitudinal direction of the pipe, and a plurality of plastic connectors of lesser longitudinal length than each of said pipes connecting next adjacent pipes and positioned circumferentially about circumferential portions of next adjacent pipes and each respectively having a cross-sectional shape of an arc of a circle and at least two ribs at the longitudinally extending ends of said connectors extending toward the center of the arc, each pipe having a partition wall within and extending continuously from an end of the pipe to its other end along a longitudinal direction of the pipe to divide in cross section an inside space of the pipe into several circumferentially spaced, longitudinally extending independent compartments, said partition wall having longitudinally extending portions integrally attached to inside wall portions of the plastic round pipe, each pipe additionally having longitudinally extending straps at the longitudinally extending edges of the slits extending inwardly of the pipe, wherein at least one connector is attached to the side walls of end portions of two pipes connected therewith, said ribs of the connector are firmly inserted into the slits, and the number of slits in a cross section of the outer wall of the pipe being equal to the number of the compartments formed in the pipe and communicating with a corresponding compartment.