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Process for producing plastic pipes having oval cross-sectional shape

US4165354A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateAug 15, 1977
Grant dateAug 21, 1979
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Expiry dateAug 15, 1997

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
  • CPC primaryB29L2031/772
  • WIPO fieldOther special machines
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

A process for producing a plastic pipe having an oval cross-sectional shape with a high dimensional precision, which comprises conducting a roughly shaped plastic pipe having an oval cross-sectional shape, which is in the softened state and composed of a large-diameter portion, a small-diameter portion and transitional portions connecting them to each other, to a cooling tank while its shape is adjusted by being passed through a forming tube with its large-diameter portion down; cooling the form-adjusted plastic pipe in the cooling tank by dipping the large-diameter portion or both the large diameter portion and a part of the transitional portions contiguous thereto in a cooling bath; and subjecting that portion of the form-adjusted plastic pipe which is out of the cooling bath to a shower of a cooling liquid. This plastic pipe is useful for a drainage or sewage system.

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