Patents by Inventor Fernando Culzoni

Fernando Culzoni 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).

  • Publication number: 20090065124
    Abstract: Method for the anticorrosion and thermally insulating coating of tubular bodies and conduits for the transport of fluids, comprising the following stages in sequence. a) positioning on a tubular body (1, 17, 17?, 17?) requiring coating a series of devices (2, 4, 5, 5?, 5?) for automatic coating of such tubular body (1, 17, 17?, 17?) provided with suitable means (6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11) for movement along such tubular body (1, 17, 17?, 17?) and/or moving supporting equipment (18, 21) capable of permitting such tubular body (1, 17, 17?, 17?) to move and if appropriate rotate in such automated coating devices (2, 4, 5), b) sandblasting of the surface of such tubular body (1, 17, 17?, 17?) using a suitable granular metal material, c) heating the surface of such tubular body (1, 17, 17?, 17?), d) applying an epoxy resin and an adhesive resin to such tubular body (1, 17, 17?, 17?), e) final coating of the tubular body (1, 17, 17?, 17?) with thermoplastic, thermohardening or the like coating material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2007
    Publication date: March 12, 2009
    Inventor: Fernando Culzoni
  • Patent number: 6440245
    Abstract: Method for the implementation in situ of the three-layer coating with thermoplastic materials for the anticorrosive protection of welding joints of coated metal pipes, and/or of damaged coating areas, by wrapping up a ready-to use sheathing/band or tape, made of thermoplastic materials. The application of the sheathing/band or of the tape onto the joint is carried out mechanically by means of a suitable roll, e.g. in silicone rubber, said roll, carried by a suitable device placed on the pipe in the area to be coated, turning around the pipe wrapping and pressing with the desired pressure the sheathing/band/tape onto the pipe itself and ensuring a strong adherence to the support/pipe and the absence of air bubbles entrapped between the sheathing/tape and the pipe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2002
    Assignee: Socotherm S.r.L.
    Inventors: Fernando Culzoni, Enrico Berti