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US 4,381,820 AGranted
Filament reinforced plastic screen and apparatus for making same
AssigneeUop LLC
InventorWalter R. Wagner
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AssigneeUop LLC
InventorWalter R. Wagner
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Filament reinforced cylindrical plastic screens having open slots defined by their surface wires which are of substantially different widths can be produced on a single helically finned mandrel. The slot widths are varied in accordance with the amount of wire-forming material placed in the generally V-shaped grooves defined by the mandrel fins. The grooves have a double relief angle so that the lower support portions of the surface wires will be formed so as to have a slightly tapered, radially elongated cross-section and the upper portions of the wires will have their sides at a substantially greater relief angle. This relationship permits a relatively small change in the total height of the wires to have a substantial effect on the width of the top portion of the wires, and thus, on the width of the slot openings which can be formed between adjacent wires.
In a well screen formed entirely of filament reinforced plastic and having an elongated helically wound slotted screen portion and integral non-slotted end portions, the improvement wherein the cross-section of the screen wires which define the slotted screen portion is of generally trapezoidal shape having its maximum dimension in a radial direction, the surface and base sides of said cross-section being generally parallel to each other and the generally radial sides being tapered in an inwardly converging direction, said last named sides being tapered at a relatively small diverging angle along the major portion of their length starting from their base side and being tapered at a relatively larger diverging angle along the remaining minor portion of their length to the surface side.
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