Insulating wrap

• US 7,521,635 B2
• Filed: 05/04/2006
• Issued: 04/21/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 05/12/2005
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Gazelle's Oilfield Services, Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Gazelle's Oilfield Services, Ltd.
• Inventors: Impey, Brian, Stout, Boyd J.
• Primary Examiner(s): PATEL, DHIRUBHAI R
• Application Number:
  US11/418,428
• Publication Number:
  US 20060254807A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,083 Days
• Field of Search: 174/137.R, 174/137.A, 174/138.R, 174/135, 138/149, 138/150, 138/129, 138/130, 138/99, 138/110, 428/222, 156/143, 156/188
• US Class Current: 174/137.00R
• CPC Class Codes: F16L 59/027 Bands, cords, strips or the like for helically winding around a cylindrical object

Abstract

A insulating wrap includes a flexible elongate body of insulating material adapted to be wrapped in a helical fashion around an object, such as a pipe. The body has a first end and a second end. A first tie strap is secured by a first fastener to the first end of the body to facilitate the body being secured to the pipe. A second tie strap is secured by a second fastener to the second end of the body to facilitate the body being secured to the pipe.

Claims

1. Insulating wrap, comprising:

a flexible elongate body of insulating material adapted to be wrapped in a helical, overlapping fashion around an object, and the body having a first end and a second end;

a first tie strap secured by a first fastener to the first end of the body to facilitate the body being secured to the object; and

a second tie strap secured by a second fastener to the second end of the body to facilitate the body being secured to the object;

wherein the first tie strap and the second tie strap are flexible, at least one of the first fastener or the second fastener comprising a single centrally positioned fastener pivotally securing one of the first tie strap or the second tie strap to the body and accommodating relative rotational movement between one of the first tie strap or the second tie strap and the body, thereby allowing the angle of one of the first tie strap or the second tie strap relative to the body to be angularly adjusted.

2. The insulating wrap as defined in claim 1, wherein the flexible elongate body of insulating material is substantially a planar material which facilitates wrapping the flexible elongate body in a helical, overlapping fashion around the object.

3. The insulating wrap as defined in claim 1, wherein each of the first flexible and the second flexible tie straps has a length which is greater than a perimeter of the object, but less than a length of the object, to facilitate tying of the first and the second tie straps around the object.

4. Insulating wrap, comprising:

a flexible elongate body of insulating material adapted to be wrapped in a helical, overlapping fashion around an object, and the body having a first end and a second end;

a flexible first tie strap immovably affixed by a first fastener to the first end of the body to facilitate the body being secured to the object; and

a flexible second tie strap immovably affixed by a first fastener to the second end of the body to facilitate the body being secured to the object;

wherein the first tie strap and the second tie strap are flexible, at least one of the first fastener or the second fastener comprising a single centrally positioned fastener pivotally securing one of the first tie strap or the second tie strap to the body and accommodating relative rotational movement between one of the first tie strap or the second tie strap and the body, thereby allowing the angle of one of the first tie strap or the second tie strap relative to the body to be angularly adjusted.

5. The insulating wrap as defined in claim 4, wherein the flexible elongate body of insulating material is substantially a planar material which facilitates wrapping the flexible elongate body in a helical, overlapping fashion around the object.

6. The insulating wrap as defined in claim 4, wherein each of the first flexible and the second flexible tie straps has a length which is greater than a perimeter of the object, but less than a length of the object, to facilitate tying of the first and the second tie straps around the object.

7. Insulating wrap, comprising:

a flexible elongate body of insulating material adapted to be wrapped in a helical fashion around an object, the body having a first end and a second end;

a first tie strap secured by a first fastener to the first end of the body to facilitate the body being secured to the object, the first fastener accommodating relative rotational movement between the first tie strap and the body, thereby allowing the angle of the first tie strap relative to the body to be angularly adjusted; and

a second tie strap secured by a second fastener to the second end of the body to facilitate the body being secured to the object, the second fastener accommodating relative rotational movement between the second tie strep and the body, thereby allowing the angle of the second tie strap relative to the body to be angularly adjusted.