Male Branch Tees are very similar to traditional Straight Pipe Tees where they are used to connect pipelines with another pipe of the same size at a right angle with the line. The difference is these Male Branch Tees feature a male thread on the branch allowing a female pipe thread to be connected at 90°

Pipe Elbows are used in a piping system to change the flow direction. It is used to connect two pipes with the same nominal diameter to make the pipe, and thus the fluid direction, turn 45 degrees.