Machine for belling pvc-o pipes
AssigneeSica S.P.A.
InventorsGiorgio TABANELLI, Giovanni VECCHI
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Abstract
A method for processing pipes made of thermoplastic material of the PVC-O type, including the following steps: a step of feeding pipes into a station for receiving the pipe; a step of heating a first end portion of the pipe, in a heating station; a step of belling the first end portion of the pipe, after the step of heating the first end portion of the pipe; and a step of making an inner taper at a first end portion of the pipe, in a tapering station, said inner taper being performed before the heating step.
Claims10
1-14. (canceled)
A machine for belling pipes made of thermoplastic material of the PVC-O type comprising:
- a unit for picking up pipes to be processed;
- a unit for heating the pipe;
- a unit for belling a first end portion of the pipe;
- a processing unit configured for making an inner taper at a first end of the pipe positioned upstream of the unit for heating the pipe and positioned upstream of the unit for belling a first end portion of the pipe.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.