TUPY figure numbers, and what the trade calls them

Figure numbers are how this range is ordered, and almost nobody has them memorised. This table lists every figure published on this site against its standard designation and the names it goes by on site, so an enquiry that says "reducing bush, 1in to 1/2in, galvanised" and an enquiry that says "figure 241" can both be priced without a phone call.

Why the same fitting has four names

A 90 degree elbow is a knee in one market, an ell in another and a bend in a third. A socket is a coupling in American practice and a sleeve to plenty of fitters. A bush is a reducer, and a reducing socket is also a reducing coupling. None of this is wrong - it is trade vocabulary that travelled with the people who taught it, and in a region staffed from a dozen countries all of it is in use on the same site.

The figure number is the fixed point. It does not change with the language of the person ordering, and it is what appears on the casting, the carton and the invoice.

How to read the designation column

Most figures carry a designation from the standards that govern threaded malleable iron fittings: EN 10242 and ISO 49 for the threads and the shapes, with ABNT NBR as the Brazilian equivalent. Where a specific type code is published for the figure - U11 for the iron conical seat union, E2 for the side outlet elbow, P4 for the threaded flange - it is shown as published.

Where the column shows the standard without a type code, the figure is covered by that standard but is ordered by figure number rather than by designation. Nothing has been inferred to fill a gap.

Using this to check a competitor's list

A takeoff written against another manufacturer usually names shapes rather than that maker's codes: elbow, tee, socket, bush, union, cross. Read down the trade names column, take the figure number, and the sizes and weights are on the linked page. Anything the list calls for that is not here is worth sending anyway - the range is wider than the figures published on this site.

Figure numbers, designations and trade names

Built from the published catalogue, so it stays in step with the product pages. Designations are as published for each figure; a dash means no trade synonym is recorded rather than that none exists.

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