Method of manufacturing a silo or tank with a lining, and a wall sheet for manufacturing a silo or tank

• US 5,829,209 A
• Filed: 08/14/1996
• Issued: 11/03/1998
• Est. Priority Date: 08/14/1995
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Industrial Storage Systems B.V.
• Original Assignee: Industrial Storage Systems B.V.
• Inventors: Keyl, Ruud V.D.
• Primary Examiner(s): Friedman, Carl D.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Yip, Winnie S.
• Application Number:
  US08/696,696
• Time in Patent Office: 811 Days
• Field of Search: 52/192, 52/197, 52/249, 52/416, 52/418, 52/591.5, 220/565, 220/567, 427/421, 427/242, 427/284, 427/299
• US Class Current: 52/192
• CPC Class Codes: B65D 90/045 the liners being in the form of tiles or panels
• CPC Class Codes: E04H 7/30 mainly of metal

Abstract

A method of manufacturing a silo or tank with a lining by using preformed wall sheets comprising, along the edges thereof, edge zones provided with bolt holes for connecting the wall sheets to each other with slight overlap, wherein wall sheets are used prefabricated with a coating layer applied to the inside of the wall sheets under controlled conditions by spraying, spreading or the like, which coating layer covers the entire inner surface of the wall sheet, but leaves free the edge zones of two connecting edges; that the prefabricated wall sheets are then brought to the building site and connected to each other in such a manner that in each case a coated edge zone of a wall sheet lies on the inside on a free edge zone of another wall sheet; that at least on the inside the seams between the wall sheets are provided with a cemented joint and the heads of the bolts or the like are likewise provided with a layer of coating material.

Claims

1. A method of manufacturing a silo or tank with a lining comprising the steps of:

providing preformed wall sheets including edge zones with bolt holes for connecting the wall sheets to each other with slight overlap by bolts;

applying coating layers to inner surfaces of the wall sheets under controlled conditions so that, coating layer cover the entire inner surfaces of the wall sheets except for coating-free edge zones of two connecting edges on each of the wall sheets;

transporting the wall sheets to a building site of a silo or tank;

laying one of the coating-free outside surface of a first wall sheet edge zone on a coating-free edge zones of a second wall sheet inner surface;

connecting the wall sheets to each other by passing the bolts through the bolt holes in each of said first and second wall sheets;

providing seams between the wall sheets with a cemented joints; and

coating each exposed head of the bolts passed through the bolt holes with a layer of coating material which bonds to one of the coating layers.

2. A method according to claim 1, and further comprising the step of pretreating the wall sheets before application of the coating layer to effect better bonding of the coating layer.

3. A method according to claim 2, wherein pretreating is performed by applying an intermediate layer.

4. A method according to claim 3, wherein the intermediate layer comprises a fabric layer.

5. A method according to claim 2, and further comprising the step of also pretreating the coating-free edge zones.

6. A method according to claim 1, and further comprising the step of providing the coating-free edge zones with a thin layer of coating material after transporting the wall sheets to the building site.

7. A method according to claim 1, and further comprising the step of using at least a number of wall sheets with holes in said edge zones with larger dimensions than diameters of the bolts.

8. A method according to claim 1, wherein the cemented joint is of the same base material, but with a higher viscosity, as the coating layers.

9. A method according to claim 1, and further comprising the step of providing a cemented joint on an outside of said seams.

10. A method according to claim 1, wherein the coating layer is applied by spraying, spreading or the like.