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Method and apparatus for manufacture of insulating sleeves

US4160398A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateMar 1, 1978
Grant dateJul 10, 1979
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Expiry dateMar 1, 1998

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
  • CPC primaryY10T83/398
  • WIPO fieldMachine tools
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

Making insulation sleeves from binder containing fibrous material, including integrated method and apparatus features for dividing a continuous blanket or web of fibrous material into individual lengths, winding individual lengths of fibrous blanket upon a multi-part separable mandrel, heating the mandrel to cure the binder in the inside surface layer of the sleeve, separating the sleeve from the mandrel, bringing the outside surface of the sleeve into contact with a heated surface to cure the binder in the outside surface layer of the sleeve, delivering the sleeves to a curing oven in which the sleeves are advanced and rotated, trimming the ends of the sleeves, and axially slitting the sleeves.

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