Apparatus for protecting a water faucet or the like from freezing temperatures

Claim 1

Apparatus for freeze protecting a water faucet which extends from a wall, comprising a pair of bodies of foamed plastic material having inner sides disposable on opposite sides of the faucet with their inner ends adjacent the wall and their outer ends beyond the outer end of the faucet, and a sleeve of relatively rigid, moisture impervious material having an open end for fitting over the bodies for forcing them toward one another, when so disposed, in order to cause their inner sides to be deformed into conformity with the faucet and tightly engaged with one another in surrounding relation to the faucet adjacent its extension from the wall and their inner ends to tightly engage with the wall from which the faucet extends, and an opposite closed end so as to enclose said bodies when said open end is moved against the wall, said sleeve holding said inner sides in such tight engagement so as to maintain a substantially air-tight enclosure about the top, bottom, sides and outer end of the faucet, but being releasable to permit removal of said bodies from said faucet.