| 摘要 |
A generally A-shaped bracket having flanges extending therefrom, wherein the flanges are of spaced, parallel, and generally coplanar orientation relative to one another. The A-shaped bracket structure employs a plurality of aligned recesses to accommodate heat tubes of various sizes relative to a single bracket. The bracket structure of the invention further employs separating webs that are flexibly displaced to accommodate a tube member and will "spring-back" subsequent to insertion of a tube within an accepting recess within the bracket structure for ease of use, and also provides a plurality of breakaway grooves to enable a user to break the bracket into a desired length for use, without the use of saws, knives, or other tools. Applications include heating and cooling systems in which fluid carrying tubes are secured by the novel bracket in a structure for the purpose of providing ambient heat, cooling, or melting snow. Additional example applications include floors, pavements, ramps, hospital ramps, barns, livestock pens, helicopter pads, factories, etc. Such tubes also find application in carrying a salt/brine or other anti-freeze solution in refrigeration systems, including the type employed in ice hockey rinks. The inventive bracket also fins applications in connection with securing conduit tubing of the type employed in connection with electrical cables, telephone cables, TV cables, fiber optic cables, and the like. Other applications include the securement of potable and irrigating water tubing.
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