Patents by Inventor Bruce A. Munde

Bruce A. Munde has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 5230842
    Abstract: To rehabilitate an internally corroded underground pipeline, excavations are made at its opposite ends to which launching and receiving pipe structures are then secured. Various pig member sets, with appropriate treatment fluids carried thereby, are air-driven through the entire length of the pipeline to successively acid clean, etch, and neutralize its interior surface. The interior pipeline surface is then thoroughly dried by flowing dehydrated air through the pipeline. Specially designed leading and trailing extruder pigs, with 100% solid, high viscosity, solvent-free epoxy coating material therebetween, are then air-driven through the pipeline to extrude a first protective coating layer onto its interior surface. The first layer is then dried with dehydrated air.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 1991
    Date of Patent: July 27, 1993
    Inventor: Bruce A. Munde