Victaulic Celebrates 100 Years Of Customer - Focused Patented Innovation
Milestones include one billion solution installations worldwide, contributions to Eiffel Tower, Hoover Dam, and other iconic projects.
On April 4, 2019, Victaulic celebrates a century of innovation — 100 years since it was granted its first industry patent for mechanical pipe joining solutions. On its Centennial "Innoversary," the company continues to develop and patent groundbreaking technologies, with a current portfolio of more than 2,000 patented solutions that transform the building and industrial construction industries, while driving new industry standards in performance and safety.
On this day in 1919, Lieutenant Ernest Tribe filed the first patent for The Victory Joint, the first mechanical bolted coupling to join grooved pipe ends. Now known as the Victaulic coupling, the invention enabled critical piping infrastructure to be installed more quickly, safely and cost effectively than traditional methods. While first devised for military applications, the coupling went on to revolutionize the construction industry.