Frangible Connections Patents (Class 425/DIG109)
  • Patent number: 5044405
    Abstract: To facilitate the repair of short sections of pipe by providing a lining in situ, a repair carrier containing the repair lining is moved into position adjacent the pipe length to be lined, the lining is forced out of the carrier into position in the pipe where it is fixed in position and the carrier is then removed from the pipe leaving the lining in place. A flexible tube forming a part of the carrier is used to initially position the lining in the carrier and then to force the lining out from the carrier and urge it against the interior of the pipe, preferably by eversion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 1989
    Date of Patent: September 3, 1991
    Assignee: Insituform Licensees B.V.
    Inventors: F. Thomas Driver, Jeff P. Wells
  • Patent number: 4767587
    Abstract: Break-away closures are formed by an injection molding process with a closure part in interference path with a forming core for interference in use with a counterpart surface of a container neck. The process and apparatus disclosed permits stripping of the formed closure from the core by selectively creating free encircling space about the interference closure part for expansion thereof during stripping. The closure has detent surface molded therein which assists the stripping operation and the process and apparatus provide for the application of stripping forces at spaced locations simultaneously to permit stripping of the closure in part without axial loading thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 1986
    Date of Patent: August 30, 1988
    Assignee: TBL Development Corporation
    Inventors: Edward J. Towns, Edward M. Brown
  • Patent number: 4631161
    Abstract: A continuous molding method is disclosed as providing a sliding seal chamber in which moving molding surfaces form and can provide means for the induction of such temperature changes required to produce finished products from the chosen raw material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 1985
    Date of Patent: December 23, 1986
    Inventor: Anatoliy Popow
  • Patent number: 4341727
    Abstract: The manufacture of perforated vinyl strips by feeding the strip material continuously without interruption to a punching apparatus that has two pairs of cooperative rotary dies that punch out closely spaced perforations with the first pair of dies scoring the perforations and the second pair punching out the perforations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 1981
    Date of Patent: July 27, 1982
    Assignee: The B. F. Goodrich Company
    Inventors: Clifford A. Landsness, William R. Rinker, Thomas E. Barnes, Maurice E. White
  • Patent number: 4165061
    Abstract: A molding unit for forming a frozen liquid confection and the like comprising a container of molded or a plastic material and integrally molded with a ring-like member, which ring-like member is readily severable from the container and positioned between posts or pins on the container so that a portion of the ring-like member extends into the container to be frozen into and embedded in the frozen product with a portion of the ring-like member extending exteriorly so that it may be grasped and used as a handle to hold the finished frozen product.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 1977
    Date of Patent: August 21, 1979
    Assignee: RB Toy Development Co.
    Inventors: Sam Kupperman, Dennis Kupperman
  • Patent number: 3981953
    Abstract: A method of casting concrete blocks having a fractured face. A pattern or frame is embedded in a mass of concrete within a mold and after the mass is compacted within the mold and about the frame, the frame is moved relative to the compacted mass so as to randomly fracture the concrete mass between the elements of the frame. The frame together with a portion of the fractured mass are removed from the finished block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 1974
    Date of Patent: September 21, 1976
    Inventor: Donald John Haines