Abstract A pipe cover spacer and diameter compensator for use with extraction lagging comprising two complementary sections, the sections with the spacers mounted thereon being applied to the exterior of the pipe to completely enclose the latter, with the sections welded or otherwise fastened to each other, thus maintaining spring tension on the spacers. The pipe cover spacer and diameter compensator consists of a plurality of individual, circumferentially arranged, spacing members each having a flat mounting portion abutting and secured to the undersurface of a lagging cover and having a finger extending therefrom and terminating into a relatively flat bendable tab angularly extending from the finger to yieldably bear against the surface of a pipe to resist lateral movement between the cover and the pipe and to compensate for any variation in the space between the cover and the pipe.
An improvement in a pipe cover spacer and diameter compensator for attachment to a lagging cover surrounding a pipe comprising a. a spacer member formed of spring material and adapted to be disposed between the cover and the pipe, b. said spacer member comprising a relatively flat substantially rectangularly shaped mounting portion fixedly secured as by welding to the underside of said said cover, and c. a yieldable finger angularly extending away from said flat mounting portion longitudinally of the cover and with its side edges converging and terminating into a free-standing tab adapted to have free yieldable contact with the pipe when the cover is mounted thereon.
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An improvement in a pipe cover spacer and diameter compensator for attachment to a lagging cover surrounding a pipe comprising a. a spacer member formed of spring material and adapted to be disposed between the cover and the pipe, b. said spacer member comprising a relatively flat substantially rectangularly shaped mounting portion fixedly secured as by welding to the underside of said said cover, and c. a yieldable finger angularly extending away from said flat mounting portion longitudinally of the cover and with its side edges converging and terminating into a free-standing tab adapted to have free yieldable contact with the pipe when the cover is mounted thereon.