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US 10,837,588 B2Granted
Pipe lining apparatus transport assemblies
AssigneeSipp Technologies, LLC
InventorKent Weisenberg
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Abstract
A pipe lining apparatus transport assembly having one or more positioning mechanisms for maintaining the orbiting operational components of the pipe lining apparatus in a concentric relationship with the pipe, the positioning mechanisms including alone or in combination extension/retraction mechanisms, track set rotational mechanisms, articulating joint mechanisms and/or linear translation mechanisms.
Claims18
A pipe lining apparatus comprising:
- operational components applying lining material and/or reinforcing filaments to an interior of a pipe;
- a transport assembly comprising two track sets, each said track set comprising a pair of laterally separated tracks connected to at least one extraction/retraction mechanism, said track sets connected to said operational components;
- at least one linear translation mechanism moving one or more of said track sets laterally relative to said operational components;
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- a single track set rotational mechanism connected to each said track set and having a vertical axis, whereby said track sets rotate about said vertical axis relative to said operational components.
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A pipe lining apparatus comprising:
- operational components applying lining material and/or reinforcing filaments to an interior of a pipe, said operational components having a central axis, wherein said operational components apply said lining material and/or reinforcing filaments to the interior of the pipe in an orbital manner centered on said central axis;
- a transport assembly comprising two track sets, each said track set comprising a pair of laterally separated tracks connected to at least one extraction/retraction mechanism, said track sets connected to said operational components;
- a track set rotational mechanism connected to each said track set and having a vertical axis, whereby said track sets rotate about said vertical axis relative to said operational components;
- at least one linear translation mechanism moving one or more of said track sets laterally relative to said central axis of said operational components;
- wherein said transport assembly adjusts the position of said central axis of said operational components within the pipe such that said central axis is concentric with said pipe.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.