Inside Of Hollow Work Patents (Class 118/306)
  • Publication number: 20120177809
    Abstract: A method of sealing pipes or ducts with a duct coating applicator having a camera mounted thereon. The duct coating applicator sprays plural compounds on an interior of the duct. A duct coating applicator mounted camera records a video of an inside of the duct. The video is quickly accessible for customer review on site. A customer billing statement is quickly generated on site. A controller communicates with the nozzle carriage. A pump feeds the duct coating applicator from a resin tank via a resin supply line. The controller receives resin temperature and pressure, duct diameter, and duct coating applicator speed data and can adjust resin feed and duct coating applicator speed rates. The duct coating applicator has a cylindrical body having an outer member and a core member. An adjustable nozzle is on an outlet end for dispersing resin. Extension arms may be adjusted to accommodate various duct sizes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2011
    Publication date: July 12, 2012
    Inventors: JOHN B. SOLIE, MARVIN L. STONE, EVANDER EVANS CHAMBERS
  • Patent number: 8096261
    Abstract: The invention relates to a substrate, a method for spraying particulate solids onto a substrate and an apparatus for spraying particulate solids onto a substrate covered with a wet and/or adhesive synthetic resin layer, comprising a feed line having means for generating a gas pressure at its first end and a free opening at its second end, a reservoir for particulate solids, and a nozzle for generating a pressure differential, wherein the reservoir and the nozzle are inserted in the line in such a way that particulate solids are taken out of the reservoir into the line and swirled, and transported to the open end of the line, from which the particulate solids are ejected and sprayed onto the wet and/or adhesive synthetic resin layer, by the pressure differential generated by the nozzle in operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2012
    Assignee: Kronotec AG
    Inventors: Pius Steinmann, Christian Hubner, Erich Bauer
  • Patent number: 8061296
    Abstract: The pipe treatment apparatus rotates a pipe to be treated, from the pipe exterior. The apparatus provides easy adaptation to varied pipe lengths and pipe diameters. The blast nozzle delivers blast media to the pipe interior to clean and prepare the interior for coating. The spray head delivers various chosen coatings to the pipe interior. The blast nozzle and spray head are easily installed and removed. The trolley and telescopic member with c-channel, along with the longitudinal drive motor with drive roller propel either the blast nozzle or spray nozzle into, within, and out of the pipe, as the rotational motor and transverse rollers turn the pipe from the pipe exterior. The apparatus therefore provides a basic design with which pipe can be both cleaned and coated within.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2011
    Inventor: Tom Batur
  • Patent number: 7954447
    Abstract: A method of creating an air barrier on both sides of an innerliner splice on the inside surface of a green tire when a bladder release lubricant is being applied thereto to prevent contamination of the splice. High pressure air is directed through air nozzles on both sides of the innerliner splice just prior to and during the application of the lubricant. A pressure sensor detects high or low air pressure during the creation of the air barriers to stop the spray of lubricant should either situation be detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2011
    Assignee: Bridgestone Americas Tire Operations, LLC
    Inventors: Gregory M. Hawkins, Dan S. Shipley
  • Patent number: 7927667
    Abstract: This invention generally relates to a spray apparatus and a method useful in the repair of coating adhered to can ends used in the food and beverage packaging industries. The spray apparatus has one or more elongated shafts rotatably coupled to a frame. One or more bearing members are rotatably coupled to the shafts. One or more plates are rotatably coupled to the bearing members. One or more spray guns are coupled to the plates. The spray guns of the spray apparatus are structured to apply fluid to the can end with a solid stream emitted from the spray guns in a circular pattern. A method for the repair of coating adhered on a can end is provided as well.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2011
    Assignee: Stolle Machinery Company, LLC
    Inventors: Craig Allan McEldowney, Dennis Cornelius Stammen
  • Patent number: 7915561
    Abstract: A wear resistant coating is applied on an elbow or S-bend by weld beads applied along a pipe. A rectangular support rod is attached inside the pipe by connectors so that wheels of the carriage are guided on the corners to maintain a fixed orientation relative to the support rod. A three axis robot arm carries an electric welding head so as to be able to dynamically adjust the head both angularly and radially. A welding wire is pulled to the head by a feeding system on the carriage. The weld parameters including a predetermined wire stick out and angle of wire attack are controlled. A drive motor carried by a drive carriage propels the drive carriage longitudinally along the support rod with a series of intermediate carriages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2011
    Assignee: Matrix Wear Technologies Inc.
    Inventor: Barry Kossowan
  • Patent number: 7879394
    Abstract: Method and apparatus for depositing material in hard to reach locations of a workpiece. An elongated member is inserted in an opening. The member transports a laser beam from a fiber laser and material, preferably in powder form, to the desired location. The material is deposited on the workpiece and the laser beam contacts the material. The method and apparatus may be used to manufacture a part or to repair an existing part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2011
    Assignee: Optomec, Inc.
    Inventors: David M. Keicher, Lucas B. Brewer, Richard John Grylls
  • Patent number: 7866277
    Abstract: A method and apparatus is disclosed for remotely and robotically installing an organic, monolithic, structural and non structural, circumferential and partial radius membranes in conduits, pipelines or passageways. The included apparatus has the mechanical function to manually or automatically center the liner dissipation device in any geometrical shape. The included apparatus possesses the remote controlled capability to manipulate centrifugal dissipation of the liner to afford consistent thickness on any shaped profile or flat surface of the pipe wall surface. The apparatus includes a manual or automatic mechanical scissoring device for elevation changes and a manual or automatic rotational table for shaft alignment. The apparatus includes a means of automated self alignment by way of proximity sensors. The pendulum oscillation bracketing incorporates a fluid driven motor assembly communicating with a bored shaft and integrates as many as two offset dissipation devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2011
    Inventor: Kent Weisenberg
  • Patent number: 7857166
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for accurately and repeatably depositing edible particulates on edible products. A dual-drum rotary feed system accurately meters an amount of edible particle for each edible product with a first rotary drum while a second rotary drum deposits the edible particulates onto or within the edible product. The dual-drum rotary feeder can comprise replaceable drums wherein drums can be quickly removed and replaced for cleaning, sanitization and to adjust processing conditions such as, for example, changes in production rates and/or product size.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2010
    Assignee: General Mills Marketing, Inc.
    Inventors: Lisa Jo Ryan, Peter A. Huberg, Gary O. Bendickson, Joana A. Montenegro
  • Patent number: 7823284
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention use a gas flow to prevent adherence of a coating to portions of an engine block adjacent to a cylinder bore being coated with the coating. Embodiments may be particularly useful for applying a coating on the inner surface of the cylinder bores in one cylinder bank while protecting cylinder bores in an opposing cylinder bank, e.g., in a V-type engine. One method of applying a coating to an engine block comprises spraying the coating on an inner surface of a first cylinder bore of the engine block. The method further comprises shielding a second cylinder bore of the engine block from the sprayed a coating with a gas flow while spraying the coating on the inner surface of the first cylinder bore.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2010
    Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hideo Takahashi, Takashi Ogino, Kazuhiro Kougo, Kiyokazu Sugiyama
  • Patent number: 7726256
    Abstract: A method and apparatus is disclosed for remotely and robotically installing an organic, monolithic, structural and non structural, circumferential and partial radius membranes in conduits, pipelines or passageways. The included apparatus has the mechanical function to manually or automatically center the liner dissipation device in any geometrical shape. The included apparatus possesses the remote controlled capability to manipulate centrifugal dissipation of the liner to afford consistent thickness on any shaped profile or flat surface of the pipe wall surface. The apparatus includes a manual or automatic mechanical scissoring device for elevation changes and a manual or automatic rotational table for shaft alignment. The apparatus includes a means of automated self alignment by way of proximity sensors. The pendulum oscillation bracketing incorporates a fluid driven motor assembly communicating with a bored shaft and integrates as many as two offset dissipation devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 1, 2010
    Assignee: Inspar Robotic Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Kent Weisenberg
  • Patent number: 7692758
    Abstract: A method of fabricating a liquid crystal display device includes forming a thin film transistor on a first substrate, forming a color filter on a second substrate, and forming a spacer on one of the first and second substrates, the spacer being formed by a distributing apparatus, and forming a liquid crystal layer between first and second substrates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2010
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chun Ok Park, Sung Yel Kim
  • Patent number: 7641756
    Abstract: A method for lining a pipe conduit with a coated textile tubing that adheres to the inner walls of the pipe conduit by means of an adhesive. The coated textile tubing can be filled with a long pot life adhesive and the textile tubing turned inside out (inverted) while being introduced into the pipe conduit. A fast curing adhesive is substantially simultaneously applied to the inner wall of the pipe conduit in as short a distance as possible to the moving tubing inversion point. The introduced tubing is then subjected to an inner pressure to force the tubing into contact with the pipe inner wall until the fast curing adhesive has cured. Alternatively, an impregnated textile tubing can be substituted for the tubing filled with the long pot life adhesive. As a further alternative, conditions are controlled to cause curing of the adhesive only in the inverted portion of the tubing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2010
    Inventor: Siegfried Schwert
  • Patent number: 7622002
    Abstract: This invention generally relates to a spray apparatus and a method useful in the repair of coating adhered to can ends used in the food and beverage packaging industries. The spray apparatus has one or more elongated shafts rotatably coupled to a frame. One or more bearing members are rotatably coupled to the shafts. One or more plates are rotatably coupled to the bearing members. One or more spray guns are coupled to the plates. The spray guns of the spray apparatus are structured to apply fluid to the can end with a solid stream emitted from the spray guns in a circular pattern. A method for the repair of coating adhered on a can end is provided as well.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2009
    Assignee: Stolle Machinery Company, LLC
    Inventors: Craig Allan McEldowney, Dennis Cornelius Stammen
  • Patent number: 7591901
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for remotely installing a monolithic liner in a conduit is disclosed. The apparatus includes a main component body including electromagnetic actuators, pneumatic cylinders, linear actuators relays, solenoids, ion generator, attachment points for tethers, umbilical, cameras and diameter specific guides and a reciprocation head attached thereto. The longitudinally traversing reciprocation head incorporates a fluid driven rotary turbine motor assembly communicating with shaft and self cleaning dissipation device integrating both conical and inverted cone surfaces. Also included on the reciprocating assembly is an impingement block for the efficient mixing of products and a termination mechanism for the precise remote control of product flow. Additionally, the assembly provides the ion generator to direct a stream of negatively charged air flow to the shaft and the diffusion device to effectively prohibit excess material accumulation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2009
    Inventor: Kent Weisenberg
  • Patent number: 7555837
    Abstract: A cylinder block has at least two cylinder banks each having cylinder bores arranged in at least two directions relative to an axis for a crankshaft. A rotator on which the cylinder block is securely disposed has a convex rounded surface. When the rotator rotates, the convex rounded surface moves along a concave rounded surface of a rotator-holding base. As a result of the rotation, the cylinder bores of the first bank or the cylinder bores of the second bank face upward in the vertical direction. Accordingly, with a single spray gun, sprayed coatings can be formed on inner surfaces of the cylinder bores of the first and second banks without having to change a mounting position of the cylinder block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2009
    Assignee: Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Kiyokazu Sugiyama, Takayuki Monchujo, Akiharu Tashiro, Eiji Shiotani
  • Publication number: 20090155463
    Abstract: An apparatus for transferring adhesive material to portions of filter elements that are displaced relative to the apparatus includes a dispenser from which heated adhesive material is discharged, a transfer arrangement that receives discharged adhesive material and transfers the discharged adhesive material to the portions of the elements as they are displaced, and a cooling arrangement. The cooling arrangement cooperates with the transfer arrangement to cool the discharged adhesive material while the adhesive material is carried by the transfer arrangement to the adhesive material receiving portions of the elements. A process by which adhesive material is transferred to adhesive material receiving portions of the filter elements, as well as an air line panel filter produced by that process, are also discussed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2007
    Publication date: June 18, 2009
    Applicant: PUROLATOR FILTERS NA LLC
    Inventor: James Steven WHITEHURST
  • Patent number: 7517408
    Abstract: A powder feeding apparatus of manufacturing a heat pipe includes a vibration tray having a supporting board and a plurality of pipes positioned in the supporting board of the tray. A mandrel is coaxially inserted in each of the pipes. A feeder is located corresponding to an end of each pipe for feeding powder into the pipe. A vibration source is located under the tray to drive the tray to vibrate with substantially a same amplitude in a vibration direction when feeding the powder into the pipes from the feeder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2009
    Assignee: Foxconn Technology Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chuen-Shu Hou, Chao-Nien Tung, Tay-Jian Liu, Cheng-Chi Lee
  • Patent number: 7448555
    Abstract: Spraying tool for foundry molds with spraying nozzles, which can be controlled separately for several media per spraying nozzle and/or for a spraying nozzle per medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2008
    Assignee: Wotec Automationssysteme GmbH
    Inventor: Rudolf Wollin
  • Patent number: 7407552
    Abstract: A method of creating an air barrier on both sides of an innerliner splice on the inside surface of a green tire when a bladder release lubricant is being applied thereto to prevent contamination of the splice. High pressure air is directed through air nozzles on both sides of the innerliner splice just prior to and during the application of the lubricant. A pressure sensor detects high or low air pressure during the creation of the air barriers to stop the spray of lubricant should either situation be detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2008
    Assignee: Bridgestone Firestone North American Tire, LLC
    Inventors: Gregory M. Hawkins, Dan S. Shipley
  • Patent number: 7338687
    Abstract: A method for applying a liner to a pipe is disclosed. The methodology includes inserting an apparatus within the pipe and moving the apparatus at a predetermined speed through the pipe. The method sprays a material from a spray head secured to the apparatus. The methodology also includes an oscillation system wherein the spray head assembly will move relative to the base assembly thus creating an over lapping pattern for the spray coating being applied to the interior surface of the pipeline. This oscillation system will allow for a more uniform coating to be applied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2008
    Assignee: Visuron Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Thomas Davis
  • Patent number: 7335264
    Abstract: A method for coating at least a portion of a medical device having an interior is provided that includes holding the medical appliance from an outside surface, inserting a spray nozzle in a first opening accessing the interior of the medical appliance, and spraying the coating on an inside surface of the medical appliance with the spray nozzle. The method may include inserting a further spray nozzle in a second opening accessing the interior of the medical appliance. The spray nozzle and the further spray nozzle may be opposingly arranged to form a radial nozzle. A device adapted to hold a medical appliance is provided that includes at least two wires and a tensioning arrangement adapted to introduce tension into the two wires. The at least two wires may be adapted to support the medical appliance from an exterior of the medical appliance. An apparatus for coating an interior of a medical appliance is provided. A medical appliance having a differential coating applied by the method is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2008
    Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.
    Inventors: John Motherwell, Michael Austin, Barry Heaney
  • Patent number: 7332034
    Abstract: To provide a coating apparatus, which can surely prevent a coating solution from spreading, to simplify a manufacturing process and reduce the manufacturing cost and provide a coating method using the same. The coating apparatus includes a holding table holding a plate having a through hole penetrating in a thickness direction; and a coating head including a slit-shaped nozzle orifice which discharges a coating solution, the nozzle orifice being opposed to a coating surface opposite to a holding surface held on the holding table. The coating apparatus applies the coating solution to the coating surface of the plate by moving the plate and the coating head relative to each other in an in-plane direction of the coating surface. In addition, the coating apparatus includes coating preventing means, which prevents the coating solution from entering the through hole of the plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2008
    Assignee: Seiko Epson Corporation
    Inventors: Takuya Miyakawa, Shinya Momose, Takayuki Suzuki
  • Patent number: 7238240
    Abstract: The subject invention relates to a method of applying the hydrocarbon barrier inside plastic fuel tanks. The plastic fuel tanks are supported on a carrier in an upright position for movement in a loop through inverted positions. While upright, hot and dry air treats the inside of the plastic fuel tanks followed by injecting SO3 inside the plastic fuel tanks through the nozzles. The SO3 is extracted from the plastic fuel tanks followed by injecting ammonia into the tanks through a second nozzle. After extracting ammonia from the plastic fuel tanks, the tanks are inverted and drained followed by a rinsing with a high pressured water and drying with hot air.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2007
    Assignee: Don Corning
    Inventor: Donald Corning
  • Patent number: 7179333
    Abstract: A machine for applying sealant material to non-circular closures using a rotating chuck connected to a rotational motor and a fixedly mounted dispensing apparatus. The chuck is also moved in at least one linear direction in a plane normal to the rotational axis of the chuck. The rotational motor may be connected to the chuck using various mechanisms while minimizing the moving mass of the machine. Sealant applicators are also disclosed that are mounted on a turret and use independently controlled motors, or fully integrated servomotors to rotate the chuck.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2007
    Assignee: Computrol, Inc.
    Inventors: Scott J. Woolley, William W. Weil, Ian J. Buckley, James N. McBride
  • Patent number: 7163584
    Abstract: An apparatus for applying liquid liner to the interior of a rocket motor tube includes a horizontal surface; a rail mounted on the horizontal surface; a carriage that is movable along the rail; cartridge saddles and a bearing block mounted on the carriage; a cartridge gun disposed in the cartridge saddles, the cartridge gun including an extended tip that is longer that the rocket motor tube to be lined; a power supply connected to the cartridge gun; a rotary driven linear actuator mounted on the bearing block; a shaft drive mounted on the bearing block in operative association with the rotary driven linear actuator and in contact with a trigger of the cartridge gun; a weighing scale disposed on the horizontal surface; and a V-block disposed on the weighing scale, the V-block for holding the mask mounted rocket motor tube in axial alignment with the extended tip of the cartridge gun.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2007
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventor: Harry L. Archer, Jr.
  • Patent number: 7156144
    Abstract: A spray head for a spraying tool for spraying the halves of a casting tool is described, in which the connection is made to a traveling arm provided with the media-carrying passages through distributing blocks disposed one under the other, from which the connection is made to spray bars through cross connections. The new configuration is selected such that the connection of the spray bars can be made selectively to the one or other of the media passages. By arranging a plurality of distributing blocks together, the addition of spray bars can also be performed stack-wise at varying distances from the particular distributing block.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2007
    Assignee: Oskar Frech GmbH +Co. KG
    Inventors: Norbert Erhard, Hubert Pschenitschni
  • Patent number: 6966950
    Abstract: A system for internally filling a joint or other discontinuity in a pipeline. The system includes a flexible conduit, a fill device removably connected to said flexible conduit, wherein the fill device is constructed and arranged to apply a fill material to an interior surface of said pipeline to fill one or more gaps in the pipeline, and a propulsion unit connected to at least one of the flexible conduit and the fill device that propels the flexible conduit through said pipeline.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2005
    Inventors: Anthony E. Winiewicz, Randall A. Nichols
  • Patent number: 6878204
    Abstract: Method and apparatus for applying a thermal conductive medium (TCM) to the inside of a disposable sheath. A uniform amount of TCM is applied in an automated manner to the conductive portion of a disposable sheath to increase conductivity. Application is by way of a rotating tip having a plurality of nozzles through which TCM is pumped under control of a timing circuit. The duration of TCM application and the rotation of the tip is carefully controlled to insure uniform application of a precise amount of TCM. TCM application is avoided at portions of the sheath where thermal conductivity is not desired and at the tip of the sheath which will be coated by TCM as a result of probe insertion into the sheath. By automating the TCM application process, TCM can be applied in precise amounts and in a uniform manner without accidentally coating areas of the sheath where TCM is not desired. In addition the process can be conducted in far less time than is required to manually apply TCM.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2005
    Assignee: AMS Research Corporation
    Inventors: Charlotte F. Kinnison, John F. Hayfield
  • Publication number: 20040194697
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for applying a liner to a pipe is disclosed. The apparatus includes a base assembly having a plurality of guide rails and a shuttle plate attached thereto. The apparatus also includes a motor module attached to an end of the base assembly. An extension arm is connected to a top surface of the shuttle plate. The extension arm has a spray head assembly attached at an opposite end thereof. The extension arm and spray head assembly will move relative to the base assembly of the apparatus. A fast cure coating will be applied via the spray head assembly to the interior surface of a pipe being rehabilitated. The spray head assembly will have an air blow off mechanism therein thus allowing for the tip of the spray head assembly to stay relatively clog free during the fast cure coating operation of the apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2003
    Publication date: October 7, 2004
    Inventor: Thomas Davis
  • Patent number: 6790284
    Abstract: A coated film forming method is capable of readily forming a coated film of a thermoplastic material on a coated region of an inner peripheral surface of a cylinder. A nozzle, through which a molten paste of a thermoplastic material kept molten is discharged, is disposed toward an inner peripheral surface of a cylinder. The nozzle is moved along a rotational central line of the cylinder while rotating the cylinder and discharging the molten paste from the nozzle. Centrifugal force acting on the cylinder being rotated leads to spreading of the molten paste applied to the inner peripheral surface of the cylinder. Viscosity of the molten paste, a rotational speed of the cylinder and a speed of movement of the nozzle are set so as to keep the molten paste discharged from the nozzle from being scattered to a region other than the coated region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2004
    Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.
    Inventor: Yasuji Suzuki
  • Patent number: 6761126
    Abstract: An apparatus is disclosed for the application of a polymer resin to a threaded fastener, where the fastener includes a cylindrical body and the threads of the fastener are formed in a bore extending diametrically across the body. The apparatus generally comprises a conveyor, a resin application station and a fastener orientation station. The conveyor carries the fasteners along a predetermined path of travel, and includes one or more fastener support members that permit the individual fasteners to rotate about the axes of their cylindrical bodies. The application station comprises a nozzle which directs a stream of the resin toward the travel path of the fasteners.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2004
    Assignee: Nylok Corporation
    Inventors: Anthony DiMaio, Mahmoud Arslanouk
  • Patent number: 6758282
    Abstract: A fire protection water sprinkler system, comprising at least one metal tube to carry water within the system, the metal tube having a coating on its interior surface comprising a quaternary ammonium salt in combination with a filming amine(s) and/or a synthetic oil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2004
    Assignee: Allied Tube & Conduit Company
    Inventors: David S. Pliner, Manzoor Chaudhry, Stephen T. Norvilas, Elmer H. Foster, Robert D. Bussiere
  • Patent number: 6752873
    Abstract: In order to reliably form a coating layer on the interior surface of a primary lining such as an underground pipe, etc., in a short time and form a coating layer having a uniform thickness, a spray gun 62 is attached to a revolving ring 30 attached to a running truck 2, right and left drive wheels of the running truck 2 are respectively independently driven and controlled to moving the running truck 2 in a primary lining 90 while the revolving ring 30 is rotated at a steady peripheral velocity to blow out a coating material from the spray gun 62, whereby a homogenous coating layer is formed with a fixed thickness on the interior surface of the primary lining 90.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2004
    Assignee: Taisei Corporation
    Inventors: Shuzo Kato, Shintaro Ikeda, Kotaro Masuda, Takaharu Izumo
  • Patent number: 6722587
    Abstract: A spray system has a base plate, a support member, a first cylinder mechanism and a second cylinder mechanism, a first slide tube and a second slide tube, a first board portion and a second board portion, a first holding bar, and a second holding bar. Each board portion is so constructed that a nozzle cassette is detachably fitted to a board base plate, the nozzle cassette is equipped with a number of spray nozzles, the first cylinder mechanism is so constructed that the first board portion can be moved relative to the support member, and the second cylinder mechanism is so constructed that the second board portion can be moved relative to the support member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2004
    Assignee: Hanano Corporation
    Inventor: Takashi Hanano
  • Patent number: 6699324
    Abstract: The invention relates to a coating system in the form of a vehicle (3), which can travel in a pipe (1) or a duct. The coating system is pulled over an appropriately stabilised section of piping (4) in such a way that the inner wall (58) can be evenly coated by a rotating distributor (18) with an outlet opening (29). The various product and supply lines (20, 21, 22, 136) are securely accommodated inside the section of piping (4) by means of a highly resistant flexible tube (138) into which they are drawn. Said flexible tube is air-tightly sealed by covers (148, 149) or a terminal block (150) at the ends and is also configured to absorb tensile forces. The individual supply and product lines (20, 21, 22, 136) are thereby protected in the section of piping (4) without being subjected to excessive pulling or other forces. They are also prevented from interfering with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2004
    Inventors: Klaus Berdin, Eckehard Deggerich, Klaus Mathmann
  • Patent number: 6632475
    Abstract: A method of creating a self-supporting waterproof lining in an underground pipe involves pulling a small carriage through the pipe and operating a rotary sprayer mounted on the carrier to spray an air-atomized, fast-setting organic compound on the interior of the pipe. Supply lines for air and the two parts of the compound pass through a union from the non-rotary carriage to the rotary sprayer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2003
    Inventor: Nicola Bleggi
  • Publication number: 20030172871
    Abstract: This invention relates to a method and a device (01) for coating the interior wall (14) of a pipe (02) with a curable compound, a spraying device (04) being provided on the device (01) by means of which a directed stream (10) of curable compound can be produced. A centrifugal device (05) which is driven to rotate is provided on the device (01), the stream (10) of the curable compound being directed at the centrifugal device (05), so that the curable compound is thrown by the centrifugal device (05) against the inside wall (14) of the pipe (02) because of the rotational force produced by the rotation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2003
    Publication date: September 18, 2003
    Inventor: Oswald Scherer
  • Patent number: 6554903
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for applying a thermoplastic powder to threads located in a bore of an internally threaded fastener having a powder supply conduit in communication with a powder source and a powder application conduit defining a first passageway having a powder discharge port and a second passageway having a powder inlet port located adjacent the discharge port which is in communication with a powder collection system. The powder application conduit is movable for insertion into and through the bore of the fastener and into engagement with the powder supply conduit. The engagement forms a nozzle which directs powder through the powder discharge port onto the threads of the fastener and retrieves excess powder through the powder inlet port for conveyance to the powder collection system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2003
    Assignee: Nylok Corporation
    Inventor: Eugene D. Sessa
  • Publication number: 20030039752
    Abstract: A system for internally filling a joint or other discontinuity in a pipeline. The system includes a flexible conduit, a fill device removably connected to said flexible conduit, wherein the fill device is constructed and arranged to apply a fill material to an interior surface of said pipeline to fill one or more gaps in the pipeline, and a propulsion unit connected to at least one of the flexible conduit and the fill device that propels the flexible conduit through said pipeline.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2002
    Publication date: February 27, 2003
    Inventors: Anthony E. Winiewicz, Randall A. Nichols
  • Patent number: 6514346
    Abstract: Joints or other discontinuities in live gas pipelines are sealed by spraying the joint or discontinuity with a coating material by means of an explosion-resistant coating device (10), capable of traversing long lengths of pipe (14). The coating device is inserted into the pipe and uses an explosion-resistant camera (44) for locating joints or other discontinuities in the pipe. The preferred coating material is a high build epoxy-type elastomeric polyurethane (48), which quickly cures in the presence of pressurized flowing gas. Several joints or discontinuities, spanning several hundred feet of pipe, may be coated using a single excavation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 1999
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2003
    Assignee: NEUCO, Inc.
    Inventor: Randall A. Nichols
  • Patent number: 6508413
    Abstract: A machine (10) that can clean and spray coat the inside of a hollow pipe (14) can contain a support bar (16) and associated motors (6 and 8) with a moveable carriage (12) which mounts a thermal spray coating device (28) and/or an abrasion cleaning/profiling head (30) where a programmable controller external to the pipe is capable of controlling the motors (6 and 8).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2003
    Assignee: Siemens Westinghouse Power Corporation
    Inventors: James Alan Bauer, George Franklin Dailey, Mark William Fischer, Dwight Owen Willaman, Michael J. Metala
  • Patent number: 6454857
    Abstract: The invention relates to an apparatus for the cleaning and/or coating of a mold surface of a mold. The apparatus has a frame which can be placed onto the mold and in which a handling device is movable along a predetermined track in such a way that at least one cleaning or coating unit provided on the handling unit, of which the relative position is adjustable relative to the mold surface, is moved past the mold surface at a predetermined spacing to carry out the cleaning or coating process. A drive means is provided for the adjustment of the relative position of the cleaning or coating unit and can be coupled to the handling device, but is decoupled from the handling device during the movement thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2002
    Assignee: The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
    Inventors: Peter Glasner, Günther Willi Hartmann
  • Patent number: 6408785
    Abstract: A wetting device for the mat (10) of a carrier material comprises a grasping frame which is constituted by side ledges (101, 102, 104), whereby the mat to be coated (10) can be fixed by clamps (105) to the side ledges. At least one of the side ledges of the frame is configured flexible (bendable), since it preferably comprises several segments (101, 102) which are hinged together. Thus, the clamped mat (10) can be brought into a cylindrical configuration in which it can be coated by a spray device which is introduced into the inner space of the cylinder. Due to the subsequent bending of the flexible side ledge in the opposite direction, the mat (10) can be brought into a second cylindrical configuration for which its other upper surface constitutes the inner side of the cylinder and is thus available for being coated by the spray device. During the spraying operation, the cylinder axis is preferably orientated vertically in order to avoid non-homogeneities of the coating because of the gravitation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2002
    Assignee: Heidel GmbH & Co. KG Werkzeug- u. Maschinenfabrikation
    Inventors: Norbert Hoogen, Dieter Lencer, Christoph Pekal
  • Patent number: 6390105
    Abstract: An apparatus for cleaning the interior of small diameter pipes. The apparatus has high-pressure rotary fluid distribution nozzles on a rotating bracket carried on a movable platform. The apparatus is self-centering within the pipe with ultra high-pressure fluid swivels and quick disconnect air and fluid supply fittings associated therewith.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2002
    Inventor: Donald Ramsey
  • Patent number: 6365013
    Abstract: The invention relates to a coating process, particularly for coating a gas turbine blade (1) having cooling passageways (4) opening out onto the surface (2). During the coating operation, a fluid (6) is directed out of the cooling passageways (4) to prevent blocking of the cooling passageways (4). The invention also relates to an apparatus for implementing this coating process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2002
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Wolfram Beele
  • Patent number: 6284045
    Abstract: A monolithic refractory depositing system capable of improving working environment and working efficiency and of spraying a material in a uniform thickness is provided. The monolithic refractory depositing system is capable of carrying out both a spraying process and a casting process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 1999
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2001
    Assignee: Shinagawa Refractories Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Ryosuke Nakamura, Toshihiko Kaneshige, Seiji Nagai, Keizo Nishimura
  • Patent number: 6270847
    Abstract: Pipe coated with a hot plastic coating is cooled by applying a liquid cooling medium to the interior of the pipe. The cooling medium may be applied from a lance or pressurised cart that is stationary relative to the surroundings and moves internally relative to sections of pipe that pass successively through coating and cooling stations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2001
    Assignee: Dresser-Shaw Company
    Inventors: Dennis T. Wong, Jiri F. Holub, Louis Lemenn, Richard A. Johnston
  • Patent number: 6176927
    Abstract: A coating apparatus with a spray head is provided for coating can bodies internally. The spray head is supplied with coating material through a feed line which passes through the seam welding machine for the container bodies. The combined spray and extraction head is also connected to a suction line which extracts excess coating material which has not been deposited on the internal walls of the container bodies, and returns it through the welding machine. In this way, the escape of coating material between the individual can bodies can largely be avoided, thus reducing contamination of equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 1997
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2001
    Assignee: Elpatronic AG
    Inventors: Hans-Jörg Nussbaumer, Guido Huber, Felix Walser
  • Patent number: H2159
    Abstract: A pair of vertical guide supports are slidably received in horizontally spaced rails removably mounted on a vertical target surface to be treated, such as the hull of a ship. A rack support interconnects the vertical guide supports and is vertically displaceable relative thereto with a rack plate thereby positioned in spaced relation to the target surface. A treatment device such as a pressurized paint ejector is positioned on the rack plate for selectively imposed movement therewith along linear paths to positions at which it is aligned perpendicular to the target surface to be completely treated by application or removal of paint for example.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2006
    Assignee: The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventor: Daniel B. McGoldrick