Insulating device for fluid conduit
OwnerHermon L. Plunkett, Sr.inventor
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Abstract
A conduit for the transport of fluid at a temperature different from the temperature of the immediately surrounding ambient atmosphere may be quickly and efficiently protected against thermal transport by an insulating device comprising an elongating sheet of flexible heat insulating material having a length terminated by a top edge and a bottom edge, having a width slightly greater than the equitorial dimension of the fluid conduit and terminated by a first side edge and a second side edge and having an interior conduit-facing side and an exterior side, and means for releasably securing the elongated sheet about the fluid conduit.
Claims5
An insulating device for encasing an elongated fluid conduit, having an external equatorial dimension, said device comprising
- a. a first elongated sheet of flexible heat-insulating material having a length terminated by a top edge and a bottom edge, having a width slightly greater than the external equitorial dimension of said conduit and terminated by a first side edge and a second side edge, and having an interior conduit-facing side and an exterior side;
- b. a first elongated releasable adherent strip securingly engaged to said interior conduit-facing side of said sheet adjacent said first side edge and extending therealong substantially the length of said first side edge;
- c. a second releasable adherent strip securingly engaged to said exterior side of said sheet adjacent said second side edge, and extending therealong substantially the length of said second side edge;
- d. a neck of said first sheet extending centrally from said top edge;
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- e. a second sheet of flexible heat-insulating material connected by said neck to said first sheet, said second sheet having an interior conduit-facing side and an exterior side and a first lateral extension and a second opposed lateral extension, each said lateral extension terminating in an outer edge, a third releasable adherent strip securingly engaged to said interior conduit-facing side of said first lateral extension immediately adjacent said outer edge thereof, and a fourth releasable adherent strip securingly engaged to said interior conduit-facing side of said second lateral extension immediately adjacent said outer edge thereof said third and fourth strips when attached providing an encasing space between said first and second extensions for a valve connected to said fluid conduit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.