Pipe wrapping apparatus
AssigneeMidcon Pipeline Equipment Co.
InventorDaniel F. Wilson
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Abstract
Pipe wrapping apparatus, having one or more pipe wrapping tape spindles with each of which is associated a take up spindle onto which tape backing is wound after the backing has been stripped from the tape as the tape is wound onto the pipe.
Claims14
Pipe wrapping apparatus, comprising first spindle means adapted to hold a roll of pipe wrapping tape having a strip of backing material removably adhered to one surface thereof, means for supporting said first spindle means adjacent a pipe receiving path provided through said pipe wrapping apparatus, means for moving said supporting means and said first spindle means about a pipe disposed along said path to draw said tape from said roll to be wound around said pipe, second spindle means supported by said supporting means adjacent said first spindle means, means for rotating said second spindle means about its axis whereby said backing strip may be wound thereon and removed from said pipe wrapping tape before said pipe wrapping tape is wound around said pipe.
Pipe wrapping apparatus comprising an apparatus frame having a pipe passage therethrough and including means for propelling the apparatus frame along the length of a pipe disposed through said pipe passage, plural circularly spaced rollers depending from one end of said apparatus frame around said pipe passage, a ring sprocket disposed around said rollers to be supported thereby, a ring frame carried by said ring sprocket and rotatable therewith around said pipe passage, drive means carried by said apparatus frame having a drive sprocket aligned with said ring sprocket, a drive chain engaged around said drive and ring sprockets for driving said ring frame in rotation, at least one pipe wrapping tape spindle mounted on said ring frame to be moved around said pipe passage thereby, and a backing take up spindle mounted on said ring frame associated with each said pipe wrapping tape spindle for receiving a backing strip pulled from wrapping tape carried in a roll on said pipe wrapping tape spindle as the wrapping tape is pulled from the roll to be wrapped onto a pipe stationarily disposed through said pipe passage as said ring frame and spindles are rotated about the pipe.
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