Coated Patents (Class 138/145)
  • Patent number: 5476121
    Abstract: A rubber hose comprising an inner tube of synthetic resin, a silver or silver alloy thin film sputtered or ion plated on the inner tube, and a rubber layer heat cured to the thin film through adhesive exhibits low gas and solvent permeability and high flexibility while maintaining such properties even on angular bending.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 1993
    Date of Patent: December 19, 1995
    Assignee: Bridgestone Corporation
    Inventors: Masato Yoshikawa, Hideyuki Niwa, Yukio Fukuura, Kazuo Naito
  • Patent number: 5460852
    Abstract: A method of coating a corrugated pipe includes preparing an asphalt composition having a polymer constituent within the range of from about 3 to about 20 percent by weight, the composition having a softening point within the range of from about 180.degree. F. to about 250.degree. F. and a viscosity at a temperature of 360.degree. F. within the range of from about 600 to about 4000 cps, heating the asphalt composition to a temperature within the range of from about 340.degree. F. to about 390.degree. F. and coating the corrugated pipe by positioning at least a portion of the corrugated pipe in the heated asphalt composition for a time sufficient for the corrugated pipe to reach a temperature of at least 150.degree. F. The coated pipe is then removed from the asphalt composition for cooling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 1994
    Date of Patent: October 24, 1995
    Assignee: Owens-Corning Fiberglas Technology Inc.
    Inventors: Richard T. Janicki, Jay W. Keating
  • Patent number: 5458156
    Abstract: A multifold pipe made by multiple rolling up and turning of a copper coated steel sheet into a multifold pipe, characterized in that said steel sheet is a cold rolled sheet of a super soft austenitic stainless steel comprising by weight: up to 0.05% of C, up to 1.0% of Si, up to 5.0% of Mn, from 9.0% to 15.0% of Ni, from 15.0% to 20.0% of Cr, up to 0.04% of N, up to 5.0% of Cu, the balance being Fe and unavoidable impurities, wherein the alloying elements are further adjusted so that both the two relations (1) and (2) noted below are satisfied:K=20.5+13.0.times.C+0.99.times.Si-1.1.times.Mn-Ni-0.4.times.Cu +0.4.times.Cr+117.1.times.N.ltoreq.19.5 (1)H=27.1+60.9.times.C+0.26.times.Si-Ni-0.79.times.Cu+0.68 .times.Cr+52.6.times.N.ltoreq.29.0 (2)The multifold pipe according to the invention is excellent in fluid tightness of its fused part and in corrosion resistance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 1993
    Date of Patent: October 17, 1995
    Assignees: Nisshin Steel Co., Ltd., Sanoh Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Naoto Okubo, Yoshihiro Uematsu, Katsuhisa Miyakusu, Takashi Igawa, Yukio Oda, Yukito Nomura, Koichi Satake, Juichi Ozawa
  • Patent number: 5411779
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a composite tubular article for use as the fixing belt in an image-forming device such as a copying machine etc., particularly as a fixing belt suited for thermal fixing, and also relates to a process for producing the same.Conventionally known as an image-fixing belt is a belt consisting of a polyimide resin as the inner layer and a fluoroplastic as the outer layer. However, this fixing belt has problems that clear images cannot be obtained because the thickness of each layer is uneven, and that unglossed, so-called matt images cannot be obtained because the belt surface is smooth.This invention provides a composite tubular article comprising a tubular inner layer made of a polyimide resin and a tubular outer layer made of a fluoroplastic, the outer circumferential surface of the fluoroplastic tubular outer layer having a surface roughness of 1 to 10 .mu.m.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 1991
    Date of Patent: May 2, 1995
    Assignee: Nitto Denko Corporation
    Inventors: Toshio Nakajima, Masayuki Kaneto, Toshihiko Tomita, Tokio Fujita, Hitoshi Ishizaka, Chiaki Harada, Gosei Uemura, Taizo Sasaki, Masao Nakamura, Mamoru Hondo, Tadanori Michimoto, Toshiaki Iwamoto
  • Patent number: 5385175
    Abstract: A conduit for transporting an oil and water mixture wherein the conduit has an inner surface is substantially hydrophilic and oleophobic. The surface is characterized by a water absorption capacity of greater than or equal to about 8% by weight, and by a contact angle with the oil of greater than or equal to about 120.degree.. The inner surface material may be a silica containing concrete composition or a polymeric coating composition. A conduit having such an inner surface is wetted by water so as to inhibit adhesion of oil to the conduit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 1993
    Date of Patent: January 31, 1995
    Assignee: Intevep, S.A.
    Inventors: Mayela Rivero, Valmore Rodriquez, Dan Joseph, Emilio Guevara, Nelson Carabano
  • Patent number: 5354586
    Abstract: A tubular liner for lining the inner wall of a pipe such as sewer pipe made up of a flexible tubular resin-absorbent fabric to be impregnated with a thermosetting liquid resin and a tubular plastic film welded on the external surface of the tubular resin-absorbent fabric; also disclosed are the methods for making such tubular liner and for impregnating such tubular liner with the thermosetting liquid resin, and in particular the impregnation method is characterized by using a plurality of vacuum suction hoses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 1992
    Date of Patent: October 11, 1994
    Assignees: Shonan Gosei-Jushi Seisakusho K.K., Yokoshima & Company, OAR Inc.
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Yokoshima, Hiroyuki Aoki
  • Patent number: 5300336
    Abstract: The invention provides a composite protective coating applied to a steel pipe, the coating comprising an epoxy resin primer bonded to the outer surface of the pipe, a polyolefin outer sheath, and an interlayer consisting of a mixture of epoxy resin and polyolefin. The composition of the mixture forming the interlayer is graded throughout its thickness, being substantially all epoxy resin adjacent to the primer coating and substantially all polyolefin adjacent to the sheath.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 1992
    Date of Patent: April 5, 1994
    Assignee: Shaw Industries Ltd.
    Inventors: Dennis Wong, Jiri Holub, Joseph G. Mordarski
  • Patent number: 5277228
    Abstract: Disclosed are a welded pipe with an excellent corrosion resistance, having two plate layers on the inner surface thereof, and a method of manufacturing it. The inner surface is coated with the plate layers even on the bead part and other steel foundation-exposed parts. A first plate layer of at least one of Ni, Co and Ni- or Co-base alloys is formed on at least one surface of a steel strip, then a second plate layer made of a metal or alloy having a lower melting point than the metal or alloy of forming the first plate layer is formed over the first plate layer. The thus plated steel strip is formed into a pipe and then heat-treated to give a welded pipe having no exposed steel foundation. The welded pipe has excellent corrosion resistance and workability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 1991
    Date of Patent: January 11, 1994
    Assignee: Usui Kokusai Sangyo Kaisha Limited
    Inventor: Hiroshi Yamanashi
  • Patent number: 5265793
    Abstract: A small thick-walled composite metal fuel injection tubing for a diesel engine, for example, is manufactured from an outer carbon steel pipe, and an inner stainless steel pipe press-fitted in the large diameter carbon steel pipe by drawing. The press-fitted mating surfaces of the inner and outer pipes are metallurgically and integrally bonded together by heat-treating. As a result, at least an inside wall surface of the inner stainless steel pipe has a diffused layer of at least one kind of metal, or an alloy of two or more kinds ,of metals in combination, selected from the group consisting of Ni, Cr, Mo, Co, Al and Cu.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 1992
    Date of Patent: November 30, 1993
    Assignee: Usui Kokusai Sangyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masayoshi Usui, Yuzo Hitachi, Seiya Takahata
  • Patent number: 5207248
    Abstract: In a pipe coated with a resin layer on the inner surface thereof and a method for manufacturing the same, resin mixture including thermal melting fluoro resin and fluorine elastomer is applied to the inner surface of a pipe member. The resin mixture is thermally treated on the inner surface of the pipe member to be of a mesh like pattern so that a resin layer of a predetermined stripping strength is obtained thereon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 1992
    Date of Patent: May 4, 1993
    Assignee: Hitachi Cable, Ltd.
    Inventors: Kuniaki Seki, Shinichi Nishiyama, Hajime Abe, Noboru Hagiwara
  • Patent number: 5205886
    Abstract: An improved method of inserting a liner into a metallic pipeline is disclosed. The liner is formed from a plurality of concentric tubes that are enveloped in a flexible, expansible, tear resistant material. When the concentric tubes are pulled into the pipeline, the tear resistant material provides protection against tearing of the tubes by burrs, snags or other imperfections on the inside of the metallic pipeline. The tear resistant material may be a fabric, woven material or mesh. Materials having a structure that permits escape of fluid entrapped during subsequent expansion of the concentric tubes on formation of the liner are preferred. The method permits the lining of pipeline sections that have bends, loops or the like, while protecting the liner from tearing during insertion into the pipeline.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 1992
    Date of Patent: April 27, 1993
    Assignee: Du Pont Canada Inc.
    Inventor: George White
  • Patent number: 5128184
    Abstract: A wet sleeve from a diesel engine is coated with Teflon in the area which will be in contact with the water from the cooling system. The Teflon coating will prevent the sleeves from being pitted from the boiling of the water against the sleeve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 1990
    Date of Patent: July 7, 1992
    Inventor: Michael W. Benefield
  • Patent number: 5104595
    Abstract: Underground pipelines that carry wastewater water, natural gas and industrial fluids deteriorate with age. Shown is a process and apparatus for installing a thermoplastic liner in such existing pipelines to accomplish in situ rehabilitation. It involves extruding a tube of thermoplastic liner material within the interior of a pipeline in situ, said tube having an outside diameter smaller than the inside diameter of said pipeline. The tube is next expanded so that the outside diameter of said tube is essentially equal to the inside diameter of said pipeline. The expanded tube is then cooled and hardened in a liner configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 1990
    Date of Patent: April 14, 1992
    Inventor: Robert M. Hunter
  • Patent number: 5091230
    Abstract: The tube, composed of a structural portion (1) of composite fibers encapsulated with thermosetting matrixes playing the part of a binder and obtained by filament winding, is provided with at least one inner coating (2) of a fibrous composite material impregnated with a thermoplastic binder, which is directly adjacent to the tubular portion formed by the structural portion (1) with the thermosetting binder.Application to oil production tubings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 1990
    Date of Patent: February 25, 1992
    Assignees: Aerospatiale Societe Nationale Industrielle, Institut Francais du Petrole
    Inventors: Jean-Francois Fuchs, Jean-Louis Tisne, Pierre Odru
  • Patent number: 5077105
    Abstract: A gas-tight aluminum oxide tube having an Al.sub.2 O.sub.3 content of 98.0 to 99.8 wt-%, wherein the interior of the tube has a coating of Al.sub.2 O.sub.3 with a thickness of from 0.03 to 0.30 mm and a mean roughness R.sub.a of 2 to 10 .mu.m, is provided. Preferably, the outer surface of the tube can have a mean roughness of 1.0 to 1.5 .mu.m. Also, the coating material can contain from 15 to 30 vol-% pores and the tube material can contain from 5 to 10 vol-% pores.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 1989
    Date of Patent: December 31, 1991
    Assignee: Hoechst Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Gunter Frankfurter, Reinhard Manner
  • Patent number: 5063969
    Abstract: A self-erecting, coiled metal tube comprises a helically wound ribbon of spring material having an inside surface and an outside surface, the ribbon having adjacent turns stressed to coil in tight overlapping and telescoping engagement, and a textured surface formed on the outside surface of the ribbon so that when the ribbon is extended, the textured surface of an underlapped turn of ribbon bears against the inner surface of an overlapped turn of ribbon to create friction between the adjacent turns of ribbon and control the length of extension of the ribbon tube and strengthen the tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 1990
    Date of Patent: November 12, 1991
    Assignee: Ametek, Inc.
    Inventor: Kenneth J. Snyder
  • Patent number: 5030489
    Abstract: The molding has a body (3) of thermoplastic. A sound-muffling layer (4), which is affixed to the body (3) by the injection-molding process, consists of a thermoplastic elastomer. The body (3) protrudes at its end from the sound-muffling layer (4). Welding sleeves (2) are welded onto these unlayered areas (5) of the body (3). Molding (1) in the course of repair work can also be severed in the area of the sound-muffling layer (4) and joined by means of butt welding. The thickness of the sound-muffling layer (4) is comparatively small.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 1989
    Date of Patent: July 9, 1991
    Assignee: Geberit AG
    Inventor: Heimo Johri
  • Patent number: 4995427
    Abstract: A pipe section of an outer metallic pipe and a nonmetallic inner lining is provided so that the lining can be removed. To this end, the lining consists of lining segments, the terminal members of which are braced against the ends of the pipe in a form fitting manner and the successive lining segments can interfit with, for example, complementary frustoconical formations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 1989
    Date of Patent: February 26, 1991
    Assignee: Metalpraecis Berchem & Schaberg Gesellschaft fur Metallformgebung mit beschrankter Haftung
    Inventor: Rutger Berchem
  • Patent number: 4971846
    Abstract: A fiber/thermoplastic resin matrix cylinder with a metal lining and a process for manufacturing such a cylinder using metal plasma spray and filament winding techniques are disclosed. In the manufacturing process, a molten metal plasma spray is deposited on a heated and rotating mandrel. After the metal layer has cooled, filament winding techniques are used to deposit a layer of graphite fibers and thermoplastic resin around the metal layer, after which the mandrel is removed. The metal layer remains bonded to the fiber/thermoplastic layer. The process results in a fiber/thermoplastic resin matrix cylinder of low cost, light weight, durability, and survivability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 1989
    Date of Patent: November 20, 1990
    Assignee: TRE Corporation
    Inventor: Brian T. Lundy
  • Patent number: 4967798
    Abstract: The tubular packaging casing, in particular a synthetic sausage casing, comprised of fiber-reinforced cellulose, in which the fiber-reinforcement is coated at least on the outside with a cellulose layer, and a surface layer on the cellulose layer. The surface layer comprises a water-insoluble cationic resin containing particles of fibers of synthetic resin or cellulose, in particular particles of a vinyl chloride homopolymer or copolymer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 1990
    Date of Patent: November 6, 1990
    Assignee: Hoechst Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Klaus-Dieter Hammer, Hermann Winter, Gerhard Krag
  • Patent number: 4968556
    Abstract: An improved coating is provided for fiberglass insulation articles which is coated onto the fiberglass insulation, thereby providing the fiberglass insulation with good mechanical properties and other desirable properties such as low emission of volatiles, fire retardency, low potential smoke generation and low air friction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 1988
    Date of Patent: November 6, 1990
    Assignee: The Reynolds Company
    Inventor: Surendra Jain
  • Patent number: 4966201
    Abstract: A transfer tube is produced comprised of a high density ceramic oxide tube having a low density multi-layered ceramic oxide shell directly bonded to its outer surface wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 1989
    Date of Patent: October 30, 1990
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Paul S. Svec, Marcus P. Borom, Lawrence E. Szala, Milivoj K. Brun, Steven A. Miller, David P. Mourer
  • Patent number: 4952429
    Abstract: A separating pot for glandless electrical or magnetic drive assemblies includes a pot jacket having a generally tubular body with two ends and a flange portion at one of the two ends, the pot jacket being composed of fiber reinforced plastic with the fiber being wound in alternating layers of circumferential windings and helical windings, and with the flange portion being composed of additional circumferential windings; a bottom member disposed within and closing off the other of the two ends of the pot jacket, the end of the pot jacket being an open end, the bottom member having a generally cup-shaped portion which includes a rim portion surrounding an interior bottom face, the rim portion facing the open end of the pot jacket and extending in an axial direction away from the interior bottom face, the bottom member being in a press fit with the pot jacket and being glued to the pot jacket, the rim portion having a generally conically-shaped interior surface which is enlarged in a direction away from the inte
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 1989
    Date of Patent: August 28, 1990
    Assignee: Uranit GmbH
    Inventors: Bernd-Horst Schmitz, Josef Humpert, Horst Corr
  • Patent number: 4901983
    Abstract: A high-temperature resistant blast pipe is primarily intended for delivering gas, such as oxygen, and, when appropriate, solid material to metallurgical processes, and incorporates a layer of refractory material comprising a refractory mixture of solid particles and an alkali-silicate based binder.The blast pipe is characterized in particular in that the major constituent of the binder is of the type polymerized alkali silicate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 1988
    Date of Patent: February 20, 1990
    Assignee: Oxy-Tuben AB
    Inventor: Arne Larsson
  • Patent number: 4846264
    Abstract: A composite pipe is proposed which is comprised of an aluminum pipe and a lead pipe formed in the aluminum pipe in direct contact with the inner wall of the aluminum pipe. The composite pipe is produced by supplying a lead pipe to a continuous aluminum extrusion machine which can extrude while enveloping a long object, to form an aluminum pipe on the outer periphery of the lead pipe. A heat pipe using the composite pipe is also proposed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 1988
    Date of Patent: July 11, 1989
    Inventor: Ryosuke Hata
  • Patent number: 4844129
    Abstract: Polydextrose compound containing anti-pleat lock coatings, food casings containing said coatings, and a method for their production which comprises applying to the surface thereof an aqueous coating composition containing a polydextrose compound are disclosed. The coated food casings exhibit improved food release characteristics, improved resistance to strand breakage, and improved anti-pleat lock characteristics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 1988
    Date of Patent: July 4, 1989
    Assignee: Teepak, Inc.
    Inventors: Douglas J. Bridgeford, Rodney J. Hine
  • Patent number: 4840154
    Abstract: A tubular ceramic body for gas passages in a cylinder head of an internal combustion engine comprises a tubular piece having an opening, two separate tubular portions each having an end side and provided with an opening at the end side, the tubular portions merging into the tubular piece in a transition region, and a connection provided between the tubular portions at least in the transition region of the tubular portions into the tubular piece, the ceramic body being formed as a one-piece member produced in a single sintering process from a single material, and the connection of the tubular portions being formed by a common wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 1988
    Date of Patent: June 20, 1989
    Assignee: Feldmuhle Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Dieter Fingerle, Wolf-Dieter Gundel
  • Patent number: 4839204
    Abstract: A resin coated metal pipe has a plane surface portion formed with a coating resin as one body. By arranging many resin coated metal pipes in parallel such that the plane surface portions point upward, a lightweight structure, such as a bench, a flower stand, a draining board, and so forth can be assembled easily. Slippery or anti-slippery synthetic resin may be used as a part of or all the plane surface portion having a color different from the coating resin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 1987
    Date of Patent: June 13, 1989
    Assignee: Yazaki Kakoh Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Syuji Yoshino, Satoshi Makino, Mitsuo Fujita, Yukio Shimizu
  • Patent number: 4835919
    Abstract: An impervious shelter is made of tube-shaped modules fitted end to end. The invention pertains more especially to the junction between the facing ends of the modules. Each module has an outer shell covered on the inside by a metal sheet. At the facing ends of two modules, the metal sheets are prolonged by collars which fit into one another. At least one of the collars has a grooved and flexible part which can change shape without breaking when the shelter is subjected to external stresses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 1987
    Date of Patent: June 6, 1989
    Assignee: Societe Gerac
    Inventor: Solly Side
  • Patent number: 4820591
    Abstract: A corrosion resistant article comprising a refractory metal having a sulfide coating of said refractory metal formed thereon and a method for producing the same by forming on a refractory metal substrate a sulfide coating of said refractory metal. The corrosion resistant article may be provided in a composite comprising also a metal substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 1987
    Date of Patent: April 11, 1989
    Assignee: Exxon Research and Engineering Company
    Inventor: Trikur A. Ramanarayanan
  • Patent number: 4798769
    Abstract: An electrode supporting conduit tube for electrical heating of underground hydrocarbon resources comprises a metal conduit tube and an insulating member adhered on and around the outer peripheral surface of the metal conduit tube. The insulating member is a laminated body of a web of glass fiber impregnated with water-dispersion varnish of a hot-water resistant and thermoplastic resin and a polyether/ether/ketone resin film, which is formed by first alternately winding the glass fiber web and the resin film on and around the outer peripheral surface of the metal conduit tube for a plurality of winding turns, and then subjecting both polyether/ether/ketone resin film and glass fiber web thus wound on and around the metal conduit tube to shaping under heat and pressure at a heating temperature of from 350.degree. C. to 450.degree. C, and under a pressure of from 10 kg/cm.sup.2 to 200 kg/cm.sup.2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 1987
    Date of Patent: January 17, 1989
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Osamu Hayashi, Sadamu Matsuda, Ichiro Takahashi, Goro Okamoto, Kazuo Okahashi
  • Patent number: 4794049
    Abstract: An electrode supporting conduit tube for electrical heating of underground hydrocarbon resources comprises a metal conduit tube; and an insulative covering adhered on and around the outer peripheral surface of the metal conduit tube, the insulative covering being a laminated body of polyether/ether/ketone resin and glass fiber, which is obtained by confining both polyether/ether/ketone resin and glass fiber wound on and around the metal conduit tube within a metal mold and subjecting the laminated materials to shaping under heat and pressure at a heating temperature of from 350.degree. C. to 450.degree. C. and a pressure of from 10 to 200 kg/cm.sup.2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 1987
    Date of Patent: December 27, 1988
    Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Ichiro Takahashi, Goro Okamoto, Kazuo Okahashi
  • Patent number: 4789005
    Abstract: A flexible hose suitable for use in seawater contains a small amount of copper dust in its elastomeric cover. The copper dust, even though present in a small amount, inhibits marine growth on the hose and prevents marine creatures boring very far into the hose. The hose is particularly suitable for the transportation of corrosive fluid such as crude oil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 1988
    Date of Patent: December 6, 1988
    Assignee: Dunlop Limited
    Inventor: Alan D. Griffiths
  • Patent number: 4785854
    Abstract: In a concrete-wrapped pipe having an inner water-impermeable resinous coating, the concrete wrapping is formed with a continuous inner portion covering the resinous coating and a helically slotted outer portion, the helical slot extending at least to the depth of a mesh reinforcement embedded in the concrete. The structure is characterized by the fact that the inner portion of the concrete wrapping is formed with one or more helically extending zones of reduced compressive strength, radially aligned with the helical slot or slots in the outer portion. The helical configuration breaks the continuityof the concrete wrapping in the longitudinal direction of the pipe and, even with pipe of relatively large diameter, enables the wrapping to accommodate limited bending of the pipe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 1988
    Date of Patent: November 22, 1988
    Assignee: Shaw Industries Ltd.
    Inventors: Harold F. Jarvis, Frederick S. Gelfant
  • Patent number: 4759390
    Abstract: In a concrete-wrapped pipe having an inner water-impermeable resinous coating, the concrete wrapping is formed with a continuous inner portion covering the resinous coating and a helically slotted outer portion, the helical slot extending at least to the depth of a mesh reinforcement embedded in the concrete. The structure is characterized by the fact that the inner portion of the concrete wrapping is formed with one or more helically extending zones of reduced compressive strength, radially aligned with the helical slot or slots in the outer portion. The helical configuration breaks the continuity of the concrete wrapping in the longitudinal direction of the pipe and, even with pipe of relatively large diameter, enables the wrapping to accommodate limited bending of the pipe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 1986
    Date of Patent: July 26, 1988
    Assignee: Shaw Industries Ltd.
    Inventors: Harold F. Jarvis, Frederick S. Gelfant
  • Patent number: 4749622
    Abstract: A composition which contains (a) 80 to 99% w of a bitumen component; (b) 1 to 20% w of an elastomer; (c) 1 to 60% w of a hydrocarbon resin which has been modified to contain carboxyl, carboxylic anhydride, hydroxyl and/or amino groups; and (d) 1 to 100% w of an inorganic filler, the weight percentages being based on the total weight of the bitumen component and elastomer, is suitable for coating structures and a process for applying the composition at elevated temperature onto a suitable structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 1987
    Date of Patent: June 7, 1988
    Assignee: Shell Oil Company
    Inventors: Willem C. Vonk, Gerrit V. Gooswilligen
  • Patent number: 4738307
    Abstract: A gas-fired condensing furnace with a corrosion resistant condensing heat exchanger. The condensing heat exchanger is formed from a flat sheet of engineering metal with a layer of polypropylene sheet material laminated thereto. Each condensing heat exchanger has a condensing flow passage of serpentine shape formed in the laminated flat sheet of engineering metal such that the polypropylene layer will be exposed to the flue gas/condensate environment to provide corrosion resistance to the metal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 1987
    Date of Patent: April 19, 1988
    Assignee: Carrier Corporation
    Inventor: Richard M. Bentley
  • Patent number: 4733699
    Abstract: A composite pipe is proposed which is comprised of an aluminum pipe and a lead pipe formed in the aluminum pipe in direct contact with the inner wall of the aluminum pipe. The composite pipe is produced by supplying a lead pipe to a continuous aluminum extrusion machine which can extrude while enveloping a long object, to form an aluminum pipe on the outer periphery of the lead pipe. A heat pipe using the composite pipe is also proposed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 1985
    Date of Patent: March 29, 1988
    Assignee: Sumitomo Electric Industries Ltd.
    Inventor: Ryosuke Hata
  • Patent number: 4734333
    Abstract: A postformable ultraviolet curable primer coating composition is disclosed which consists essentially of: (A) from 10% to 80% of a linear acrylate-terminated polyurethane based on a polycarbonate diol; (B) from 2% to 35%, of acrylic acid; (C) from 15% to 65% of a monoethylenically unsaturated monomer having the rapid ultraviolet cure rate associated with acrylate monomers and having a glass transition temperature above 35.degree. C.,; (D) from 0% to 25% of a polyacrylate monomer; and (E) photoinitiator rendering the composition curable with ultraviolet light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 1986
    Date of Patent: March 29, 1988
    Assignee: DeSoto, Inc.
    Inventors: A. Frank Leo, Clive J. Coady
  • Patent number: 4729410
    Abstract: A casing in use for sausages that utilizes the heat shrinkable plastic film, and features the formation of vinylidene layer on the internal surface of heat shrinkable plastic film, namely on the area getting in direct contact with the sausages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 1986
    Date of Patent: March 8, 1988
    Inventor: Hiromichi Inagaki
  • Patent number: 4723602
    Abstract: A heat exchanger having a housing with one or more tubes therein for the transportation of a first fluid through the tubes and a second fluid through the housing and at least partially around the tube or tubes, in which each tube includes two concentric walls with a thin layer or thin layers of a relatively soft material between them applied to the outer surface of the inner wall and to the inner surface of the outer wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 1980
    Date of Patent: February 9, 1988
    Assignee: B.V. Neratoom
    Inventors: Johannes H. Huigen, Theodoor J. Tromp, Jan Vrijen, Johan K. van Westenbrugge
  • Patent number: 4723579
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a lining material suitable for reinforcing various pipe lines buried in the ground, which is made by inserting an unwoven fabric of a specific structure into the interior of a conventional air-impervious tubular fabric having a film of a synthetic resin on the exterior surface thereof and is passed through a pipe line while being evaginated under fluid pressure and which possesses earthquake-resistance and shape-maintaining property against external hydraulic pressure in addition to the characteristics required for conventional lining materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 1986
    Date of Patent: February 9, 1988
    Assignee: Ashimori Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masakatsu Hyodo, Isaburo Yagi
  • Patent number: 4681783
    Abstract: A tubular lining material for reinforcing pipe lines, which has a double-layered structure comprising an air-impervious outer tubular textile jacket provided on the inside thereof with a reinforcing inner tubular textile jacket, characterized in that the reinforcing tubular textile jacket is more coarse in weaving density and larger in diameter than the air-impervious tubular textile jacket and that the product of the length of the diameter and the elongation ratio in the direction of the diameter on fracture, of the air-impervious tubular textile jacket is approximately equal to the product of the length of the diameter and the elongation ratio in the direction of the diameter on fracture of the reinforcing tubular textile jacket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 1985
    Date of Patent: July 21, 1987
    Assignee: Ashimori Industry Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Masakatsu Hyodo, Isaburo Yagi
  • Patent number: 4675221
    Abstract: A hose (such as an airplane fuel line hose) is made from a material which forms ablative particles in the presence of fire. Normally, these particles flake away from the hose. According to the invention, an encapsulating basket weave, braid or cage of stainless steel wire surrounds the hose to capture and retain ablative particles, so that they continue to provide an insulating quality for the hose and, therefore, to prolong the life of the hose.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 1980
    Date of Patent: June 23, 1987
    Assignee: Titeflex Corporation
    Inventors: James M. Lalikos, Chester T. Gazda, Lawrence O'Melia
  • Patent number: 4665996
    Abstract: Hardfacing the principal bearing surface of a drill pipe with an alloy having the composition of: 50-65% Cobalt, 25-35% Molybdenum, 1-18% Chromium, 2-10% Silicon and less than 0.1% Carbon reduces the friction between the drill string and the casing or rock. As a result, the torque needed for the rotary drilling operation, especially directional drilling, is decreased. The alloy also provides excellent wear resistance on the drill string while reducing the wear on the well casing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 1986
    Date of Patent: May 19, 1987
    Assignee: Exxon Production Research Company
    Inventors: Z. Andrew Foroulis, Yuh H. Tsao
  • Patent number: 4648243
    Abstract: A ceramic body for use as a gas conduction channel or duct and preferably used to define an exhaust channel in a cylinder head of an internal combustion engine, where the cylinder head is cast around the ceramic body. The ceramic body is provided with a thickening or external layer over at least a part of its outer surface. This external layer adds stability and strength to the ceramic body and allows it to withstand the pressures occurring during the casting of the cylinder head. The thickening or external layer is formed from a pressure resistant material and may be applied to a depression in the ceramic body or into the space between two parallel ceramic bodies to provide the required strength and stability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 1984
    Date of Patent: March 10, 1987
    Assignee: Dr. Ing. h.c.F. Porsche AG
    Inventor: Hans Korkemeier
  • Patent number: 4644907
    Abstract: A composite boiler tube has a fireside surface and a water-side surface and comprises a metallic tubular member having an outer surface and an inner surface. One of the metallic surfaces has an efficiency enhancing coating adhered thereto and providing the composite tube with the fireside surface or the waterside surface. A method of enhancing the efficiency of a boiler tube which comprises a metallic tubular member having an outer surface and an inner surface includes the step of applying a coating of efficiency enhancing material adhered to one of the metallic tube member surfaces, thus to produce a composite boiler tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 1985
    Date of Patent: February 24, 1987
    Inventor: Edward H. Hunter
  • Patent number: 4645553
    Abstract: Process for manufacturing a calibrated cardboard tube having minimal surface roughness and dimensional stability, involving helically winding a plurality of glued strips or plies around a mandrel and then polishing the exterior surface of the rough tube, coating the exterior surface with a thermosetting resin, cutting the tube, drying and compressing the cut pieces transversely together with applying heat, wherein at least the next-to-last ply and the last ply or strips of a dense material are impregnated with a thermosetting resin and, after coating and heat compression of the pieces, a final coating of a thermosetting resin is applied to the last plies before drying the coated surface and buffing or finish polishing to form a smooth surface, and the apparatus for performing the process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 1985
    Date of Patent: February 24, 1987
    Assignee: L'Homme, S.A.
    Inventor: Jean-Paul Languillat
  • Patent number: 4607698
    Abstract: A string of pipe is provided with intermittent coatings of grit-like materials bonded to the pipe to provide a rough surface for adhesion of cement in a cementing operation. Between the intermittent coatings are intermittent bare portions of pipe thereby to permit the use of a cement bonding tool. The spacings of the coatings is functionally related to the transmitter/receiver spacing for a cement bonding tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 1985
    Date of Patent: August 26, 1986
    Assignee: Completion Tool Company
    Inventor: Edward T. Wood
  • Patent number: 4606378
    Abstract: Subsea pipe line sections adapted to be welded together into a continuous subsea pipe line are provided with a weight coating which, apart from its weighting function, also serves to protect the pipes. The weight coating comprises a composite material substantially consisting of a granulated iron ore in a matrix of a thermosetting resin, covered by a high strength durable plastic tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 1985
    Date of Patent: August 19, 1986
    Inventor: Erik B. Meyer