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US 2023/0257957 A1Published application
Utility cover and lightweight underground enclosure made with long fiber composite material and method of manufacturing thereof
AssigneeHubbell Incorporated
InventorsNejib Masghouni, Cauley Sean Price, Scott Venczel
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Abstract
A lightweight composite utility cover includes an upper surface formed of a long fiber thermoplastic composite structure. An underground enclosure also includes a side wall formed of a long fiber reinforced thermoplastic material. A method of making an underground enclosure also includes Long Fiber thermoplastic (LFT) injection and/or compression molding a side wall of the underground enclosure.
Claims20
A lightweight utility cover comprising:
- an upper surface formed of a long fiber reinforced thermoplastic material.
A method of making a utility cover comprising:
- Long Fiber thermoplastic (LFT) injection and/or compression molding an upper surface of the utility cover.
An underground enclosure comprising:
- a side wall formed of a long fiber reinforced thermoplastic material.
A method of making an underground enclosure comprising:
- Long Fiber thermoplastic (LFT) injection and/or compression molding a side wall of the underground enclosure.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.