AMERICAN Pipe Joints

AMERICAN Joints for Pipe and Fittings AMERICAN Fastite® Joint, 4"-64" The AMERICAN Fastite Joint, furnished in sizes 4”-64”, is a flexible, rubber ring compression-type joint used extensively in underground service. See pages 2-6 through 2-15 and Sections 3, 4, 7 and 9. AMERICAN Fastite® Joint with Fast-Grip® Gasket, 4"-30" The AMERICAN Fast-Grip Gasket furnished in sizes 4”-30” provides flexible, fieldadaptable joint restraint in a standard AMERICAN Fastite (or Flex-Ring) Bell. See Sections 4 and 9. AMERICAN Flex-Ring® Joint, 4"-12" The AMERICAN Flex-Ring Joint provides flexible joint restraint...

AMERICAN Joints for Pipe and Fittings AMERICAN Flex-Ring® Joint, 14"-48" The AMERICAN Flex-Ring Joint provides flexible joint restraint against thrust due to internal water working pressure or external forces. It is also used in horizontal directional drilling (HDD) and pipe bursting applications. See Sections 4 and 9. AMERICAN Field Flex-Ring®, 14"-36" The AMERICAN Field Flex-Ring provides dependable and flexible field-adaptable restraint against thrust due to external forces or internal water working pressure in the standard Flex-Ring joint. This joining structure is also recommended at locations...

AMERICAN Joints for Pipe and Fittings AMERICAN Mechanical Joint, 4"-48" The AMERICAN Mechanical Joint, furnished in pipe sizes 4”-12” and in fittings sizes 4”-48”, is a flexible stuffing box type connection used primarily in underground service. See pages 2-16 through 2-21 and Sections 3, 5, 7 and 9. AMERICAN MJ Coupled Joint, 4"-48" The AMERICAN MJ Coupled Joint is furnished in sizes 4”-48” and is an adaptation of the standard Mechanical Joint to provide joint restraint against thrust due to internal pressure. See Section 9. AMERICAN Flanged Joint, 4"-64" The AMERICAN Flanged Joint, furnished...

AMERICAN Joints for Pipe and Fittings AMERICAN Flex-Lok® Joint, 4"-24" The AMERICAN Flex-Lok Joint, furnished in sizes 4”-24”, is a boltless, very flexible joint. This joint is designed to provide up to 15° joint deflection for subaqueous or other difficult installations. See Section 10. AMERICAN Flex-Lok® Joint, 30"-60" The AMERICAN Flex-Lok Joint, furnished in sizes 30”-60”, is a boltless, very flexible joint. This joint is designed to provide up to 15° joint deflection for subaqueous or other difficult installations. Contact AMERICAN for 64” size requirements. See Section 10.

AMERICAN Joints for Pipe and Fittings AMERICAN Grooved and Shouldered Joint, 4"-64" The AMERICAN Grooved Joint pictured above—and to a limited extent the Shouldered Joint (not pictured)—are furnished for some plant piping installations. See Section 2. AMERICAN Fastite® Joint Push-Bar™ Pipe, 4"-64" AMERICAN Fastite Joint Push-Bar pipe, furnished in sizes 4”-64”, allows the AMERICAN Fastite Joint to be used in trenchless installations using direct jacking or pushing (including high load installations such as microtunneling and some pipe bursting applications). See Section 7.

AMERICAN Fastite® Joint Pipe For Water, Sewage or Other Liquids AMERICAN Fastite Joint Pipe in sizes 4”64” for water, sewage or other liquids has the proven long-life and high-strength qualities inherent in pipe produced centrifugally in accordance with AWWA C151. In addition, this significant AMERICAN development, a dependable, single gasket, push-on type joint meeting the requirements of AWWA C111, affords the customer lower joint cost and time-saving advantages in installation. It provides exceptional strength and flexibility and has been widely accepted by engineers, contractors and utility...

subsequent assembly. The snug fit and the hard section of the gasket, in conjunction with the design of the buttress, act to restrain the gasket against dislodgment during assembly. Additional internal pressure results in increased tightness of the seal when pipe is either in straight alignment or deflected. Gaskets made of SBR (Styrene Butadiene Rubber) are standard. For information on gaskets made of special types of rubber, for applications involving air or liquid temperatures in excess of 150°F, or for chemical, hydrocarbon or other special service applications, and for installations in contaminated...

AMERICAN Fastite® Joint for Ductile Iron Pipe ANSI/AWWA C111/A21.11 Standard Dimensions LAYING LENGTH Table No. 2-2 Dimensions in Inches Nominal Laying Length ft. *Dimensions subject to change at our option. Check AMERICAN if exact dimensions required. See Section 3 for additional information on ductile iron pipe. See Sections 4 and 7 for information on Fastite fittings.

AMERICAN Fastite® Joint Pipe Allowable Joint Deflection Nominal Laying Length ft. Maximum Recommended Deflection† Standard Bell Special Deflection Bell X Offset per Nominal Length in. X Offset per Nominal Length in. *Approximate radius of curve produced by a succession of nominal lengths of pipe fully deflected. †Special Deflection Bells must be specifically ordered and will be marked with white bell face for easy identification. For easiest assembly, the joints should be assembled with the pipe in reasonably straight alignment. After joint assembly, the pipe may be deflected up to the maximum...

AMERICAN Fastite® Joint Pipe Assembly Instructions The AMERICAN Fastite Joint is a pushon type joint meeting all the rigorous requirements of AWWA C111. The ANSI/AWWA C600 Standard covers in detail the installation of ductile iron water mains, including assembly instructions for push-on joint pipe. Field-cutting of AMERICAN Ductile Iron Pipe can be easily performed, thus eliminating the necessity for factory-made special lengths of Fastite pipe. The plain end of Fastite pipe cut in the field requires little or no preparation for assembly into the socket of a mechanical joint fitting. Where a...