Water-permeable pipe and method for manufacturing the same
OwnerShu-Nu LEE, Ying-Hsuan WUinventors
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Abstract
A water-permeable pipe includes inner and outer tubular units cooperatively defining an outer passage therebetween. Each tubular unit includes a water-permeable outer layer coated with a waterproof inner layer, two end portions, and an interconnecting member including a plurality of spaced apart joints that interconnect the end portions. The end portions of the inner tubular unit are diametrically opposite to the end portions of the outer tubular unit. Each adjacent pair of the joints define an interstice therebetween that permits water to flow therethrough and that fluidly communicates an inner passage in the inner tubular unit and the outer passage, and the outer passage and an external environment, respectively.
Claims10
A water-permeable pipe comprising:
- a pair of tubular units surrounding an axis and extending in an axial direction along the axis, an outer one of said tubular units being sleeved on an inner one of said tubular units, said tubular units cooperatively defining an outer passage therebetween, said inner one of said tubular units defining an inner passage therein, each of said tubular units including
- a water-permeable outer layer having an inner surface,
- a waterproof inner layer intimately connected to said inner surface of said outer layer to form a layer assembly,
- two end portions parallel to the axis, extending outwardly from said layer assembly, and connected to each other, said end portions of one of said tubular units being diametrically opposite to said end portions of the other one of said tubular units, and
- an interconnecting member including a plurality of spaced apart joints that interconnect said end portions and that are disposed along the axial direction, each adjacent pair of said joints of said interconnecting member defining an interstice therebetween, said interstice formed at said interconnecting member of said outer one of said tubular units being in fluid communication with said outer passage and an external environment, said interstice formed at said interconnecting member of said inner one of said tubular units being in fluid communication with said inner passage and said outer passage.
A method for manufacturing a water-permeable pipes comprising the following steps of:
- a) coating a waterproof layer on a water-permeable layer to form a layer assembly having two opposite end portions;
- b) folding the layer assembly and interconnecting the end portions of the layer assembly by sewing using a thread to form a tubular unit that includes a water-permeable outer layer and a waterproof inner layer, the waterproof layer coated in step a) serving as the waterproof inner layer of the tubular unit, the water-permeable layer serving as the water-permeable outer layer of the tubular unit;
- c) repeating steps a) and b) to form another tubular unit;
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- d) sleeving one of the tubular units made in steps b) and c) on the other one of the tubular units to form a water-permeable pipe, in which the end portions of said one of the tubular units are diametrically opposite to the end portions of said other one of the tubular units.
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