Abstract: The present invention provides a repairing tube to be used in pipe lines such as gas conduits, water supply lines and sewer lines, chiefly those buried in the ground, for the purpose of repairing the pipe lines. More particularly, the present invention relates to a repairing tube including a rigid pipe formed of thermoplastic resin and a tubular woven fabric and a method for repairing or reinforcing a pipe line with the repairing tube. Furthermore, the present invention relates to a method for removing the repairing tube in its collapsed form out of the pipe line, for example when the repairing tube installed in the pipe line has become superannuated or it has been collapsed for some reason or other to impair the function of the pipe line and hence it is desired to reline the pipe line.

Abstract: A lining material utilizable for a pipe-lining method, which comprises a tubular textile jacket woven or knitted with synthetic fiber yarns provided on the exterior surface thereof with a laminated two or three layer film of the following resinous materials:(1) in case of two layers:the outer layer: a synthetic resin of polyolefin series having a stress-crack resisting property of at least 1000 hours the inner layer: (1) a resin wherein an ethylenically unsaturated carboxylic acid has been grafted to an ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymer or (2) a resin comprised of 30-70% of a resin wherein an ethylenically unsaturated carboxylic acid has been grafted to a polymer of an .alpha.-olefin and 70-30% of a styrene-ethylene butylene-styrene resin composition.(2) in case of three layers:between the above described outer layer and inner layer is interposed an intermediate layer of the following resinous material: the intermediate layer: a styrene-ethylene butylene-styrene resin composition.

Abstract: A tubular lining material for city water pipe lines, which comprises a tubular textile jacket made of warps and a weft woven in a tubular form overlaid with a fluid-impervious coat of a flexible synthetic resin, at least one of the warps and the weft being comprised of threads manufactured by intertwisting filament yarns with spun yarns and/or spun-like textured yarns of synthetic fibers, and the flexible synthetic resin comprising a blend of 60-40% by weight of a polyethylene resin and 40-60% by weight of a styrene-ethylene-butylene-styrene resin, having a stress-crack resisting property of at least 1000 hours which penetrates the interstices of the fabric structure of the tubular textile jacket. The tubular lining material is remarkably improved in flexibility, heat-resistance, abrasion-resistance, stress-crack resistance and other mechanical strength properties and is harmless to drinking water.