US 11,703,168 B2
Press fitting for a pipe joint and method for its manufacture
Stephan Müller, Haβfurt (DE); Rainer Dittmar, Schweinfurt (DE); Jörg Clauβen, Havixbeck (DE); and Maik Altmann, Zeil am Main (DE)
Assigned to UPONOR INNOVATION AB, Virsbo (SE)
Appl. No. 17/49,310
Filed by Uponor Innovation AB, Virsbo (SE)
PCT Filed Mar. 4, 2019, PCT No. PCT/EP2019/055316
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Oct. 20, 2020,
PCT Pub. No. WO2019/201500, PCT Pub. Date Oct. 24, 2019.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2018 109 555.4 (DE), filed on Apr. 20, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0364111 A1, Nov. 25, 2021
Int. Cl. F16L 33/207 (2006.01)
CPC F16L 33/2078 (2013.01) [F16L 33/2075 (2013.01); F16L 2201/10 (2013.01); F16L 2201/60 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A press fitting for a pipe connection comprising:
a fitting body for connecting the press fitting to a pipe;
a press sleeve separate from and fixed to the fitting body and having a substantially cylindrical pressing area and at least one projecting element which delimits the substantially cylindrical pressing area in the axial direction; and
a tubular banderole which surrounds the substantially cylindrical pressing area of the press sleeve, the tubular banderole being arranged rotatably with respect to a surface of the press sleeve, being held in the cylindrical pressing area by the at least one projecting element and being at least partially destroyed when the press sleeve is pressed with a pressing tool,
wherein the tubular banderole is made of at least one of a plastic film and a paper strip.