Pipe repair device

Abstract

A pipe repair device includes a gasket defining a substantially cylindrical shape, the gasket defining a gasket top end and a gasket bottom end opposite the gasket top end, a gasket outer surface, and a gasket inner surface opposite the gasket outer surface; and a spring including a tubular mesh structure and engaging the gasket inner surface, wherein the pipe repair device is configurable in an expanded configuration and one of a compressed configuration and a folded configuration, and wherein the spring biases the pipe repair device to the expanded configuration.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.