Pipes and tubular conduits – With closures and plugs – Inflation stem type
Patent
1992-05-18
1994-05-17
Stodola, Daniel P.
Pipes and tubular conduits
With closures and plugs
Inflation stem type
F16L 5510
Patent
active
053119118
ABSTRACT:
A tube plug for closing a defective heat exchanger tube includes a hollow conical portion having a closed free end and a hollow cylindrical portion merging fluidly with the hollow conical portion without a step. The hollow cylindrical portion has an outer surface with an outside diameter being smaller than the inside diameter of the heat exchanger tube to be closed. The outer surface of the hollow cylindrical portion has a roughened region to be expanded into sealing contact with the inner surface of the heat exchanger tube. The roughened region has a peak-to-valley height of substantially between 0.05 and 0.2 mm. A device is disposed in the hollow cylindrical portion and/or the hollow conical portion for positioning and locking a pulling tool. A method for loosening a tube plug firmly retained in a heat exchanger tube by melting the surface of the wall of the tube plug along a predetermined path with a welding tool, and a method for closing a defective heat exchanger tube by inserting a tube plug and expanding a cold-formed roughened region of the cylindrical portion from inside and forcing the roughened region into locking contact with the inner surface of the heat exchanger tube, are also provided.
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Hummeler Alexander
Krausser Peter
Darling John P.
Greenberg Laurence A.
Lerner Herbert L.
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
Stodola Daniel P.
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