Abstract: Fiber-reinforced coated mats and fiber-reinforced coated mat-faced panels are provided herein, along with methods for making the same. Fiber-reinforced coated mats include a mat with a fiber-reinforced coating on one surface. Fiber-reinforced coated mat-faced panels include a fiber-coated mat and a panel material in contact with a surface of the mat opposite the fiber-reinforced coating. Methods include applying a fiber-reinforced coating to a surface of a mat to form a coated mat and drying the coated mat to cure the fiber-reinforced coating. Some methods also include combining the mat with a panel material to form a mat-faced panel.

Abstract: Fiber-reinforced coated mats and fiber-reinforced coated mat-faced panels are provided herein, along with methods for making the same. Fiber-reinforced coated mats include a mat with a fiber-reinforced coating on one surface. Fiber-reinforced coated mat-faced panels include a fiber-coated mat and a panel material in contact with a surface of the mat opposite the fiber-reinforced coating. Methods include applying a fiber-reinforced coating to a surface of a mat to form a coated mat and drying the coated mat to cure the fiber-reinforced coating. Some methods also include combining the mat with a panel material to form a mat-faced panel.

Abstract: A grooving tool includes a spindle rotatable about a longitudinal axis thereof and having at least one coolant inlet port, a ramp portion, and a fluid flow path to the ramp portion; a tool bit moveably coupled to the ramped portion, the tool bit comprising one or more teeth and one or more coolant channels to supply coolant proximate the one or more teeth, the one or more coolant channels operatively connected to the fluid flow path; wherein movement of the tool bit along the ramp portion toward the inlet port causes the one or more teeth to be displaced outward from the longitudinal axis. The fluid flow path may include a longitudinal passage in the spindle disposed generally along the longitudinal axis. The coolant channels may be angled with respect to the teeth and dispense coolant supplied via the fluid flow path toward the teeth.

Abstract: A tool for expanding a tube into engagement with a wall of a hole in a plate and simultaneously forming a flange on the end of the tube has a mandrel having a tapered distal portion. The mandrel receives for rotation and axial displacement a tubular cage. The cage carries expanding rolls, each of which is supported for rotation in a slot in a distal portion of the cage, is displaceable radially, is in rolling engagement with the tapered portion of the mandrel and the tube when the tool is in operation, and is skewed at a small angle to the mandrel axis so as to impart traction to the cage and the mandrel and draw them distally into the cage upon rotation of the mandrel.

Abstract: A tube expanding and flaring tool comprising a rotatable cage which has a nose guide, size to be received in a tube end that is to be expanded and flared. The cage has a tail shaft by which the cage is to be rotated. There is at least one roller carried by the cage which extends partially through the cage for rolling engagement with the interior surface of the tube. There is a nose surface on the roller with a portion thereof tapering from a first diameter to a second relatively larger diameter. Also there is a truncated conical tail surface on the roller expanding at a predetermined angle form the second diameter to a third relatively large diameter. Further there is means for supporting the at least one roller in rolling engagement with the interior surface of the tube end with sufficient force to expand the tube to a diameter relatively larger than its original diameter and to flare the tube end at the predetermined angle of the truncated conical tail surface of the roller.

Abstract: The invention provides a tube cutter of the type which forces a tool bit against an interior tube wall as the bit is rotated to sever the tube from the inside.

Abstract: A tube expander having a stop collar for limiting the axial movement of the tube end relative to the expander to prevent damage to the tube end. The stop collar is comprised of a hollow stop collar body having the end adjacent to the tube end slotted to slidingly receive a pair of stop members that can be moved relative to each other to vary the size of the aperture extending through the stop collar body. The stop collar members substantially encircle the cage and have surfaces thereon that engage the end of the tube.