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Method of reducing the wall thickness of a PTFE tube and product formed thereby

  • US 20040056384A1
  • Filed: 09/23/2003
  • Published: 03/25/2004
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/26/2000
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method of forming a thinned-wall PTFE tube comprising the steps of:

  • providing a PTFE tube having an inner tubular wall surface and opposed outer tubular wall surface defining a tubular wall of a first wall thickness; and

    compressing said tubular wall to reduce said tubular wall first thickness to a lesser second thickness, and circumferentially orient said PTFE tube.

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