EP0000576A1 - Method of lining a passageway - Google Patents
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- EP0000576A1 EP0000576A1 EP19780100492 EP78100492A EP0000576A1 EP 0000576 A1 EP0000576 A1 EP 0000576A1 EP 19780100492 EP19780100492 EP 19780100492 EP 78100492 A EP78100492 A EP 78100492A EP 0000576 A1 EP0000576 A1 EP 0000576A1
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B29—WORKING OF PLASTICS; WORKING OF SUBSTANCES IN A PLASTIC STATE IN GENERAL
- B29C—SHAPING OR JOINING OF PLASTICS; SHAPING OF MATERIAL IN A PLASTIC STATE, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; AFTER-TREATMENT OF THE SHAPED PRODUCTS, e.g. REPAIRING
- B29C63/00—Lining or sheathing, i.e. applying preformed layers or sheathings of plastics; Apparatus therefor
- B29C63/38—Lining or sheathing, i.e. applying preformed layers or sheathings of plastics; Apparatus therefor by liberation of internal stresses
- B29C63/46—Lining or sheathing, i.e. applying preformed layers or sheathings of plastics; Apparatus therefor by liberation of internal stresses of internal surfaces
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B29—WORKING OF PLASTICS; WORKING OF SUBSTANCES IN A PLASTIC STATE IN GENERAL
- B29C—SHAPING OR JOINING OF PLASTICS; SHAPING OF MATERIAL IN A PLASTIC STATE, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; AFTER-TREATMENT OF THE SHAPED PRODUCTS, e.g. REPAIRING
- B29C53/00—Shaping by bending, folding, twisting, straightening or flattening; Apparatus therefor
- B29C53/36—Bending and joining, e.g. for making hollow articles
- B29C53/38—Bending and joining, e.g. for making hollow articles by bending sheets or strips at right angles to the longitudinal axis of the article being formed and joining the edges
- B29C53/48—Bending and joining, e.g. for making hollow articles by bending sheets or strips at right angles to the longitudinal axis of the article being formed and joining the edges for articles of indefinite length, i.e. bending a strip progressively
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B29—WORKING OF PLASTICS; WORKING OF SUBSTANCES IN A PLASTIC STATE IN GENERAL
- B29C—SHAPING OR JOINING OF PLASTICS; SHAPING OF MATERIAL IN A PLASTIC STATE, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; AFTER-TREATMENT OF THE SHAPED PRODUCTS, e.g. REPAIRING
- B29C63/00—Lining or sheathing, i.e. applying preformed layers or sheathings of plastics; Apparatus therefor
- B29C63/26—Lining or sheathing of internal surfaces
- B29C63/34—Lining or sheathing of internal surfaces using tubular layers or sheathings
- B29C63/343—Lining or sheathing of internal surfaces using tubular layers or sheathings the tubular sheathing having a deformed non-circular cross-section prior to introduction
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- F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
- F16—ENGINEERING ELEMENTS AND UNITS; GENERAL MEASURES FOR PRODUCING AND MAINTAINING EFFECTIVE FUNCTIONING OF MACHINES OR INSTALLATIONS; THERMAL INSULATION IN GENERAL
- F16L—PIPES; JOINTS OR FITTINGS FOR PIPES; SUPPORTS FOR PIPES, CABLES OR PROTECTIVE TUBING; MEANS FOR THERMAL INSULATION IN GENERAL
- F16L55/00—Devices or appurtenances for use in, or in connection with, pipes or pipe systems
- F16L55/16—Devices for covering leaks in pipes or hoses, e.g. hose-menders
- F16L55/162—Devices for covering leaks in pipes or hoses, e.g. hose-menders from inside the pipe
- F16L55/165—Devices for covering leaks in pipes or hoses, e.g. hose-menders from inside the pipe a pipe or flexible liner being inserted in the damaged section
- F16L55/1652—Devices for covering leaks in pipes or hoses, e.g. hose-menders from inside the pipe a pipe or flexible liner being inserted in the damaged section the flexible liner being pulled into the damaged section
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- F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
- F16—ENGINEERING ELEMENTS AND UNITS; GENERAL MEASURES FOR PRODUCING AND MAINTAINING EFFECTIVE FUNCTIONING OF MACHINES OR INSTALLATIONS; THERMAL INSULATION IN GENERAL
- F16L—PIPES; JOINTS OR FITTINGS FOR PIPES; SUPPORTS FOR PIPES, CABLES OR PROTECTIVE TUBING; MEANS FOR THERMAL INSULATION IN GENERAL
- F16L58/00—Protection of pipes or pipe fittings against corrosion or incrustation
- F16L58/02—Protection of pipes or pipe fittings against corrosion or incrustation by means of internal or external coatings
- F16L58/04—Coatings characterised by the materials used
- F16L58/10—Coatings characterised by the materials used by rubber or plastics
- F16L58/1009—Coatings characterised by the materials used by rubber or plastics the coating being placed inside the pipe
- F16L58/1027—Coatings characterised by the materials used by rubber or plastics the coating being placed inside the pipe the coating being a sprayed layer
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- Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
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- Y10T—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION
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- Y10T29/49—Method of mechanical manufacture
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- Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
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- Y10T29/49826—Assembling or joining
- Y10T29/49863—Assembling or joining with prestressing of part
- Y10T29/4987—Elastic joining of parts
- Y10T29/49872—Confining elastic part in socket
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- Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
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- Y10T29/00—Metal working
- Y10T29/53—Means to assemble or disassemble
- Y10T29/53657—Means to assemble or disassemble to apply or remove a resilient article [e.g., tube, sleeve, etc.]
Abstract
Description
- This invention relates to the lining of passageways, especially long underground passageways, such as sewers and pipelines.
- There have been many proposals for the lining of passageways because throughout the world there is a very large number of passageways in need of repair and/or restoration. Passageways may need repair because of a number of reasons. For example an underground sewer may be leaking to such an extent that sewage is leaking into the surrounding subsoil or a pipeline may be leaking to such an extent that ground water and other liquid deposits are leaking through the pipeline into the interior of the pipeline, which may be carrying a medium which is becoming contaminated by the ingressing liquid. Again, the passageways may require repairs where they are not actually leaking, but are corroding or eroding, which could leak to leakage. Still further, it may be required to line a passageway in order to change its function e.g. it may be desired to line an otherwise corrosive passageway with an anti corrosive liner, to enable that passageway to carry corrosive material, or it may be desirable to insert a liner in order to enable the passageway to carry medium under pressure, the liner providing a means of supporting or assisting in supporting the pressure forces of the pressure medium.
- It will be appreciated that depending upon requirements, liners for pipelines vary from thin, flimsy forms of plastics foil where a surface is simply to be protected from an environment, to heavy resin impregnated felts where the liner is to support the pressure of the medium flowing in the passageway and to protect the passageway surface from chemical attack and impacts from obj.ects and debris being carried by the medium.
- In all of the known systems for passageway lining there is a common problem of inserting long length linings (over 1,000 feet) into a pipeline without having to provide the linings in sections and having to provide many joints which can be a source of leakage. The problem of providing sealed jointing with the heavier gauge liners has not fully been solved for cases where the passageway carries a fluid, such as gas, under pressure.
- It is possible to insert long lengths of flimsy material into passageways by everting it thereinto, but such liners cannot be used to increase the pressure containing capability of the passageway.
- Heavy, resin impregnated felt liners must of necessity be of finite length as otherwise they become impossible to handle.
- There is, therefore, a real need to provide a method of lining passageways with a liner which can be made in long lengths, and is robust enough to contain fluid under pressure.
- The present invention deals with this need and in accordance with the invention there is provided a method of lining passageways comprising extruding a tubular liner of plastics at the site of the passageway to be lined, such liner being of such a resiliency that it can be flexed but will return or tend to return to the unflexed condition when released, deflecting the tubular extrudate to a condition in which the largest diametral dimension of the deflected tube is less than the outer diemeter of the undeflected tube, releasably holding the tube, whilst in deflected condition, inserting the held, deflected tube into the passageway to be lined, and releasing the hold on the tube when the tube is in the passageway and either allowing or causing the tube to return to its central undeflected condition.
- The extruding, deflecting, holding and inserting the tube in the passageway preferably is effected in a continuous operation.
- After the tube has been placed in the passageway and the holding means released, the interior of the tube may be pressurised in order fully to redeflect the tube to the circular form, or such operation may be effected by passing a pipeline pig through the tube.
- The tube may be edflected to horse-shoe shape in cross section and the holding means may be a tape or slaeve of plastics foil. In the case of a tape it may be applied to the tube with adhesive and be such as to be releasable by peeling the tape from. the tube. There used it may have a seam of weakening which can be suptured, for example by igniting a fuse embodied therein along such seam.
- After the tube is extruded and whilst still soft, it may be expanded up to the required size before being deflected.
- If it is desired to provide a liner in the passageway Which has a higher hoop stress than a single extrudate, the process of the invention can be repeated a number of times, each subsequent extrudate being inserted in the previous extrudate, until a liner of the desired thickness is formed.
- An embodiment of the invention will now be described, by way of example, with reference to the accompanying diagrammatic drawings, wherein:-
- Fig. 1 is a perspective view of apparatus for carrying out the method of the invention;
- Fig. 2 is a sectional view showing the tubular extrudate in the deflected condition;
- Fig. 3 is a view similar to Fig. 2, showing how a number of extrudates may be placed one within another;
- Fig. 4 shows how the method is carried out in lining a passageway in the form of an underground pipeline; and
- Fig. 5 is a sectional side view showing how the end of the tubular extrudate may be anchored when positioned in the passageway.
- Referring to the drawings, and firstly to Fig. 1,
reference 10 indicates a conventional extruder for producing a tubular plastics material extrudate 12. The extrudate is shown as passing throughspray bars 14 from which cold water is sprayed onto the extrudate in order that the plastics material will set, and from the spray bars, the plastics material tube passes through a formingapparatus 15, comprising a deflectingroller 16 carried by aframe 18, andfolding rollers 20. The deflectingroller 16 deflects the upper central portion of the tube which is semi-rigid so that it takes up a horse-shoe type configuration in cross section as shown in Fig. 2 and the rollers 20, which are waisted as shown press the sides of the horse-shoe cross section together. Adriving roller 22 drives and supports thetube 12. Saidroller 22 is driven by amotor 34. - As the thus deflected
tube 12 proceeds from thedeflecting apparatus 15, it is wrapped with a plastics foil orfabric 24 which may be of polyvinyl chloride and is wrapped around thetube 12 as shown so that the edges thereof overlap at a hot malt bonder unit 26, and such edges are sealed in order to form a sleeve around the deflectedtube 12 to hold it in the deflected condition. Along the seam there is inserted afuse wire 28 which is supplied from afuse supply reel 30. The purpose of the fuse wire will become clear hereinafter. - Referring now to Fig. 4, the thus deflected
tube 12, held in deflected condition by thefoil 24 is fed directly into apassageway 35 .to be lined with the material oftube 12. Insertion into thepassageway 35 is facilitated by virtue of the fact that thetube 12 is held in deflected condition and in this condition the largest diametral dimension of thetube 12 is less than the outer diameter of the tube prior to deflection and is smaller than the inner diameter of the passageway to be lined. In Fig. 4 the free end of thetube 12 is shown as being connected to a pullingmember 37 in the form of a rope, and additionally thetube 12 is shown as being led through a lead-inpipe 36 and out of atail pipe 38. Thepipes underground pipeline 30 in a watertight manner, and in fact thepassageway 30 and thepipes tube 12 through thepassageway 30. When thetube 12 is in position, the water can be removed from the passageway, but it may be desireable to introduce a lubrucant into the water, such as. a soap composition in order that thetube 12 which in itself is reasonably bendable, can easily follow beds in thepassageway 35. This applied especially in the case where the passageway is pre- lined with a thin film of plastics material such as polythene film. The free end of thetube 12 will of course be sealed in order that the interior of the pipe does not become flooded with water, although in some instances it may be acceptable to allow this to happen. It is desireable that thepipe 12, which may have to travel long lengths, e.g. over 1,000 ft. should have as near neutral buoyancy in any liquid contained in thepassageway 37, as otherwise there could be substantial drag forces exerted on the lines as it is inserted into the pipeline. - The process up to the stage of placement of the
lining tube 12 in thepipeline 35, is continuous, which provides for minimum operation time, but if the extruder can be stopped and started satisfactorily, the process can be operated on a step by step basis. - When the
tube 12 is in position, the holding effect of thesleeve 24 is released, and in this example this is achieved by igniting thefuse 28 which ruptures thesleeve 24, and allows thedeflected tube 12 once more to expand to the circular condition and into a position lining the interior of thepassageway 30. The return of thetube 12 to circular form may be assisted by pressurising the interior of thetube 12 with fluid under pressure as by passing a pipeline pig therethrough from end to end. - In relation to the passageway or pipeline to be lined, the
lining tube 12 may be of slightly larger diameter or smaller diameter than that of the passageway or pipeline. When thetube 12 is of slightly larger diameter, when it returns to its circular form in the passageway or pipe line it snaps into position and in so doing becomes circumferentially compressed in that it is prevented from taking up its natural size. When thelining tube 12 is sized to snap into a circumferentially stressed condition as described, it is preferably only slightly larger diameter than the pipeline or passageway to ensure that thetube 12 does snap into circular form. This arrangement is useful when the lining operation is to provide for example a liquid impermeable barrier rather than stress taking member. - When the
tube 12 is sized to be of smaller diameter than the pipeline or passageway surface to be lined, it may be only slightly smaller or significantly smaller. One may arrange for the lining diameter to be slightly smaller than the passageway or pipeline surface where the lining tube has to carry fluid under pressure and must expand under the said pressure, and thereby contribute to taking a certain amount or all of the hoop stress in order to contain the fluid. - When the
tube 12 is of significantly less diameter than the pipeline or passageway the fold in thetube 12 as formed byrollers tube 12 and pipeline or passageway surface, when the hold on thedeflected tube 12 is released. - In the case where the liner has to be sufficiently strong tQ contain pressure forces when fluid medium under pressure passes through the passageway, the process as described in relation to Fig. 4, can be repeated, each subsequent extrudate being placed inside the previous extrudate in the manner described, and so that there is a small peripheral clearance between each lining tube and the inner surface of the tube in which it is located. Fig. 3 shows how a humber of extrudates have been positioned one within the other, and also shows a final extrudate whilst still held in the deflected condition, inside the previous extrudate and ready to be expanded back to its original circular form. By this repetition of the process, a liner of any desired thickness and hoop strength within limits can be built up.
- It would not be possible to insert a single liner of the same overall thickness as a number of extrudates, because. it would be extremely difficult to deflect such a one- piece liner to make it smaller in overall dimensions than the passageway, and it would not bend longitudinally to pass through the
pipes passageway 35. - The invention is particularly suitable for pipelines and passageways which are neither too small not too large. For very large passageways, i.e. ones in which human beings can freely walk or move, other lining techniques can be used, because there is not the same difficulty in the creation of joints between sections of liner, and for very small pipelines, it becomes extremely difficult to deflect the
tubular member 12 down to a smaller size for insertion in the pipeline and the frictional forces created by endeavouring to direct a deflected tube around bends and curves become prohibitive. The invention can however be used over a wide range of passageway sizes for example from pipelines of the order of 4 or 5 inches diameter up to passageways of the order of 4 to 5 feet. - The final size of the
tube 12 as it is extruded from theextruder 10 is established before the material is set and there may be a means for causing the extrudate to inflate up to the desired size whilst it is still soft. It will be necessary of course to reduce the size of subsequent extrudates when a multilayer lining tube is being built up, such as in the arrangement shown in Fig. 3. - The tubular eytrudate may be formed of any suitable material such as polypropylene, high density polyethene or similar plastics material which has a significant plastic memory, and preferably is of a thickness to give the required flexing and recovery characteristics. Polypropylene of a thickness of ⅛" appears to give satisfactory characteristics in this respect.
- One method of releasing the hold on the extrudate when in deflected condition in the passageway has been described, i.e. the use of a fuse, but other methods may be adopted. For example the holding means may be severed by a cutting means, or it may be in the form of a tape which is adhesively applied to the
tube 12, but can be peeled therefrom, or it may be provided with a line of weakening which is fractured as a result of pressurisation of the interior of thetube 12 after it has been placed in position. In a further arrangement the holding effect is achieved by wrapping a web around the deflected tube in much the same manner as indicated in Fig. 1, but the adjacent edges of the web are held together by a running stitch arrangement sewn into the edges as they are brought together the entire seam being releasable by following on the thread at one end of the assembly comprising inner tube and outer web. Pulling on such thread causes the stitching to release along the entire length of the seam. An alternative holding arrangement comprises a mandrel of appropriate shape and having ducting whereby, when the tube is over the mandrel, and a source of negative pressure is applied to the ducting, the tube is sucked onto the mandrel, and in being so sucked, the sectional shape changes such that the largest diametral dimension is less than that of the tube before deflection. The tube is so held until it is placed in the passageway when the source of negative pressure is released and air under pressure is supplied to the ducting inflating the tube to its original form. In any event, after the hold of the holding means has been released, thetube 12 will tend to return to its initial undeflected condition, but to ensure that it does it may be desireable to pressurise the interior of thetube 12 or to pass a pipeline pig therethrough. If thetube 12 is of slightly larger diameter than the internal diameter of thepassageway 35, it will finally be placed in position by a snapping action which results in the liner tube being placed in compression, as described herein. Where a multi-layered liner is built up, it can be arranged that each subsequent extrudate is snapped into the previous extrudate in the manner described above. - Referring finally to Fig. 5, in this drawing there is shown an arrangement illustrating how the end of the liner may be anchored by the use of complimentary wedging collars. An outerfrusto-
conical collar 40 is bolted to the end of thepipeline 35 and the free end of theliner 12 overhangs the bolt joint by an amount equal to the length of thecollar 40. Amale collar 42 having a frusto-conical outer surface is inserted into the free end of theliner 12 such that bolt holes in flanges ofcollars tube 12 becomes trapped and wedged between the frusto-conical faces of the twocollars - The invention also provides a passageway lined in accordance with the method.
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