Plastic and nonmetallic article shaping or treating: processes – Repairing or restoring consumer used articles for reuse
Patent
1994-11-29
1997-02-11
Vargot, Mathieu D.
Plastic and nonmetallic article shaping or treating: processes
Repairing or restoring consumer used articles for reuse
138 97, 156287, 264514, 264564, 264573, 2642092, 2642093, 264269, 264DIG65, 425 13, 4253261, 425380, 425DIG39, B29C 4706, B29C 6334
Patent
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056017634
ABSTRACT:
Underground pipelines that carry wastewater, water, natural gas, and industrial fluids deteriorate with age. This invention is a process and apparatus for installing a thermoplastic liner in a dry pipeline to accomplish in situ rehabilitation. It involves extruding a tube of thermoplastic liner material within the interior of a dried and preheated pipeline in situ, said tube having an outside diameter smaller than the inside diameter of said pipeline. The tube is next expanded so that the outside diameter of said tube is substantially equal to the inside diameter of said pipeline. The expanded tube is then cooled and hardened in a liner configuration.
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Hunter, R. M., Stewart, F. M. & Stephens, J. E. System for Situ in Pipeline Rehabilitation, Oct. 1994, vol. I & II. (This is not prior art because it was not released to the public until after the subject application was filed. It does, however, list prior art.).
Hunter Robert M.
Hunter William H.
Stewart Frank M.
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