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US 12,415,757 B2Granted
Method of making a sprayable setting type compound
AssigneeKnauf Gips KG
InventorsRafael Bury, Joseph W. Schlude, David D. Pelot, Naveen Punati, Tyler Kincaid, Juan Ignacio Huitzil
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Abstract
A method of making a setting type compound by injecting an activator compound into a plaster compound wherein the activator compound tube is coaxial and within the plaster compound tube, each at the same flowrate, the same pressure and the same viscosity. The cross sectional transverse areas of an annulus containing the plaster compound and the hole in the annulus containing the activator compound are the same.
Claims17
A method of making a setting type compound comprising:
- feeding a plaster compound and injecting an activator compound into a T-connector, wherein the T-connector has a first leg having a first inlet opening in communication with a first tube, the first tube comprising a second leg of the T-connector and a third leg of the T-connector, the second leg and the third leg being aligned, the second leg having a second inlet opening, the third leg having a discharge opening, the second inlet opening and the discharge opening being opposed;
- wherein feeding the plaster compound comprises pumping the plaster compound through the first leg into the first tube where the second leg meets the third leg at a specified first pressure and flowing the plaster compound at a specified first flowrate through the third leg of the first tube,
- injecting an activator compound at a specified second pressure and specified second flowrate through a second tube located within said second leg and extending into the third leg, the activator compound discharging from an exit at a downstream portion of the second tube located within and coaxial with the second leg of the first tube to contact the plaster compound;
- wherein the exit is upstream of the discharge opening of the first tube;
- wherein an annulus between the first tube and second tube at the exit has a first cross-sectional transverse area,
- wherein the second tube at the exit defines an inner second cross-sectional transverse area,
- wherein the first cross-sectional transverse area is equal to or greater than the second cross-sectional transverse area, and
- mixing the plaster compound with the activator compound in about a 1:1 to 10:1 volume ratio in a static mixer downstream of the exit to yield the setting type compound;
- wherein a ratio of the inner cross-sectional transverse area of the second tube to cross-sectional transverse area of an annulus between the first tube and the second tube is 0.25:1 to 1:1;
- wherein the specified first rate of flow and the specified second rate of flow are each in a range of 0.5-4 gpm,
- wherein the viscosity of the plaster compound is between 2,500 and 28,000 cps,
- wherein the viscosity of the activator compound is between 2,500 and 28,000 cps,
- wherein the viscosity of the activator compound, and the viscosity of the plaster compound and the viscosity of the setting type compound are equal;
- wherein the viscosity of the setting type compound is between 2,500 and 28,000 cps,
- wherein each of the specified first pressure and the specified second pressure is in a range from 1000 to 3500 psi.
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