Tubular lining material for pipe lines having bends

• US 4,576,205 A
• Filed: 04/18/1984
• Issued: 03/18/1986
• Est. Priority Date: 04/18/1983
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Ashimori Industry Company Limited, Tokyo Gas Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Ashimori Industry Company Limited, Tokyo Gas Company Limited
• Inventors: Sakaguchi, Yoichi, Yagi, Isaburo, Hyodo, Masakatsu, Morinaga, Akio
• Primary Examiner(s): Bryant, III, James E.
• Application Number:
  US06/601,713
• Time in Patent Office: 699 Days
• Field of Search: 138/98, 138/123, 138/124, 138/125, 139/387 R, 139/388, 156/287
• US Class Current: 138/98
• CPC Class Codes: F16L 55/1656 materials for flexible liners hoses in general F16L11/00

Abstract

A tubular lining material for pipe lines having bends or curved portions, which comprises a tubular textile jacket made of warps and wefts woven in a tubular form overlaid with a coating of a flexible synthetic resin and is applicable onto the inner surface of a pipe line having bends or curved portions in such manner that the tubular lining material with a binder onto the inner surface thereto is inserted into the pipe line and allowed to advance within the pipe line with or without the aid of a leading rope-like elongated element while turning the tubular lining material inside out under fluid pressure thereby applying the tubular lining material onto the inner surface of the pipe line with the binder being interposed between the pipe line and the tubular lining material, characterized in that a part or all of the warps are comprised of an elastic yarn around which, over the full length thereof, a synthetic fiber yarn or yarns have been left-and/or right-handedly coiled. This tubular lining material is particularly suitable for use in a lining method taking advantage of evagination as disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 4,334,943 for lining a pipe line having an inner diameter of 25-200 mm and a plurality of bends, such as service pipe lines or house pipe lines of gas without occurrence of wrinkles in the lining material in a bend.

Claims

1. A tubular lining material for pipe lines having bent or curved portions, which comprises a tubular textile jacket made of warps and wefts woven in a tubular form overlaid with a coating of a flexible synthetic resin and adapted to be applied to the inner surface of a pipe line having bends or curved portions in such a manner that the tubular lining material containing a binder disposed on the inner surface thereof is inserted into the pipe line and allowed to advance within the pipe line while turning the tubular lining material inside out through the application of fluid pressure to apply the tubular lining material onto the inner surface of the pipe line with the interposition of the binder between the pipe line and the tubular lining material, wherein a part of the warps are composed of an elastic yarn around which at least one synthetic yarn is coiled over the full length of the elastic yarn.

2. The tubular lining material according to claim 1, wherein the weft is a synthetic yarn.

3. The tubular lining material according to claim 1, wherein the weft is composed of an elastic yarn around which a synthetic yarn has been coiled, left-handed over the full length of the elastic yarn.

4. The tubular lining material according to claim 1, wherein the elastic yarn is a polyurethane elastic yarn.

5. The tubular lining material according to claim 1, wherein the synthetic yarn is a crimped yarn made of polyester fibers.

6. The tubular lining mateial according to claim 2, wherein the synthetic yarn is a crimped yarn made of polyester fibers.

7. The tubular lining material according to claim 3, wherein the elastic yarn is a polyurethane elastic yarn.

8. The tubular lining material according to claim 3, wherein the synthetic yarn is a crimped yarn made of polyester fibers.

9. The tubular lining material according to claim 1, having an elongation of 10-100% in the longitudinal direction.

10. The tubular lining material according to claim 1, wherein the outer diameter of the tubular lining material is 80-100% of the inner diameter of the pipe line to be treated in its narrowest portion.

11. The tubular lining material according to claim 1, wherein the outer diameter of the tubular lining material under fluid pressure for turning the tubular lining material inside out is 100-130% of the inner diameter of the pipe line to be treated in its straight portion.

12. The tubular lining material according to claim 1, wherein the synthetic yarn is coiled in the left-handed direction.

13. The tubular lining mateial according to claim 1, wherein the synthetic yarn is coiled in the right-handed direction.

14. The tubular lining material according to claim 1, wherein the weft is composed of an elastic yarn around which a synthetic yarn has been coil, right-handed, over the full length of the elastic yarn.