Method of installing exhaust tube
AssigneeNoritz Corporation
InventorsMasaki Sugatani, Hironao Matsunaga
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Abstract
A method of installing an exhaust tube is implemented by inserting an exhaust tube into an exhaust pipe that leads from inside of a building to outside thereof. A support portion of an insertion jig is introduced into a through hole from a side of one end portion of the exhaust tube, and a projection of the support portion is engaged with a recess of the exhaust tube, so that the insertion jig is fixed to the exhaust tube. An end of the exhaust tube on the side of the one end portion having the insertion jig fixed thereto is inserted into the exhaust pipe, and the exhaust tube is pushed from inside of the building to outside thereof.
Claims10
A method of installing an exhaust tube by inserting an exhaust tube into an exhaust pipe leading from inside of a building to outside thereof, said method comprising the steps of:
- preparing said exhaust tube having a first end portion and a second end portion, a through hole extending from said first end portion to said second end portion, and a recess provided in an inner circumferential surface of said through hole, said exhaust tube being formed of a flexible tube made of resin;
- preparing an insertion jig including an outer circumferential surface, a support portion having a cylindrical portion, tongue portions and a projection that projects from said outer circumferential surface toward an outside of said support portion, and a protruding portion that protrudes from said support portion to a side opposite to said exhaust tube in a state where said support portion is introduced into said through hole from a side of said first end portion of said exhaust tube, said protruding portion covering said through hole on the side of said first end portion of said exhaust tube, and said support portion and said protruding portion being integrally formed, the cylindrical portion being connected to the protruding portion, the cylindrical portion having an outer circumferential surface, the tongue portions protruding from the cylindrical portion to a side opposite to the protruding portion and each of the tongue portions has an outer circumferential surface;
- introducing said support portion of said insertion jig into said through hole from the side of said first end portion of said exhaust tube, and engaging said projection of said support portion with said recess such that the outer circumferential surface of the cylindrical portion extends along the entire circumference of the inner circumferential surface of the exhaust tube in the circumferential direction and the outer circumferential surfaces of the tongue portions extend along a part of the inner circumferential surface of the exhaust tube in the circumferential direction, to fix said insertion jig to said exhaust tube;
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- inserting, into said exhaust pipe, an end of said exhaust tube on the side of said first end portion having said insertion jig fixed thereto, and pushing said exhaust tube from inside of said building to outside thereof.
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