System and method of liner storage and transport
AssigneeINA Acquisition Corp.
InventorEugene James Camali
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Abstract
A system for transporting and installing a cured-in-place-pipe (CIPP) liner to line existing pipe includes a chassis, a bed supported by the chassis and wheels mounted on the chassis for supporting the chassis as it is moved over the road. A container supported by the chassis has a first compartment and a second compartment. A refrigeration system supported by the chassis is operable to keep the first compartment cooled to a temperature at which resin carried within the liner does not prematurely cure. The second compartment contains a powered feeder that can pull liner from the first compartment through a port and feed it out of the container for installation. A method is also disclosed.
Claims21
1-20. (canceled)
A system for transporting and delivering cured-in-place-pipe (CIPP) liner to line existing pipe, the system comprising:
- a chassis;
- a bed supported by the chassis;
- wheels mounted on the chassis and arranged to support the chassis during transport;
- a boiler supported by the chassis for supplying at least one of hot water and steam;
- a container supported by the chassis and covering at least a portion of the bed, the container sized and shaped for receiving and holding the CIPP liner carrying curable resin within the liner;
- a refrigeration system supported by the chassis and configured to cool the first compartment to temperatures that retards curing of the curable resin carried by the CIPP liner stored in the first compartment;
- and
- a powered feeder supported by the chassis and arranged to feed out the CIPP liner from the container for installation into the existing pipe.
A method of rehabilitating a pipe comprising:
- transporting a liner carrying a curable resin in an uncured state in a refrigerated compartment of a vehicle to a job site for installation of the liner into the pipe in need of rehabilitation, the refrigerated compartment including a top wall, a bottom wall and side walls extend vertically between the top and bottom walls;
- transporting a boiler on the vehicle simultaneously with transporting the liner;
- feeding out the liner from the refrigerated compartment through a side wall of the refrigerated compartment;
- installing the liner fed out from the refrigerated compartment into the pipe;
- supplying fluid from the boiler on the vehicle to cure the installed liner in the pipe.
The method as set forth in claim 19 further comprising supplying water to the boiler from a tank on the vehicle.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.