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EP0969151B1
EP0969151B1 EP98202189A EP98202189A EP0969151B1 EP 0969151 B1 EP0969151 B1 EP 0969151B1 EP 98202189 A EP98202189 A EP 98202189A EP 98202189 A EP98202189 A EP 98202189A EP 0969151 B1 EP0969151 B1 EP 0969151B1
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    • E02—HYDRAULIC ENGINEERING; FOUNDATIONS; SOIL SHIFTING
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    • E02B11/00—Drainage of soil, e.g. for agricultural purposes
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  • This invention concerns a process for manufacturing a covered drain pipe comprising a drain pipe which is enveloped by a sleeve of a knitting of a filter material according to the preamble of the first claim.
  • Such a covered drain pipe may among others be used for draining the ground.
  • the drain pipe is mostly a ribbed hose, openings being provided between the ribs through which water may flow into or out of the drain pipe.
  • the drain pipe is enveloped by a filter to hold up these particles.
  • the filter is formed by a cylindrically shaped sleeve of an elastic knitting, stretched around the drain pipe.
  • the knitting is mostly manufactured previously, in large lengths of 300 m for example, subsequently applied around the drain pipe and attached to the ends of the drain pipe.
  • the covered drain pipe known from EP-A-0,029,713 however has the disadvantage that the filter may come loose from the drain pipe, as a consequence of which the drain pipe is no longer enveloped over its entire length by the sleeve, and the filtering action of the sleeve is at least partially lost.
  • a covered drain filter comprising a drain pipe, a sleeve of a knitting of a filter material being fixed to the drain pipe in longitudinal direction of the drain pipe.
  • the sleeve may be adhered to the drain pipe along the entire contact area between the drain pipe and the sleeve or at contact points between the sleeve and the pipe.
  • the sleeve is manufactured separately in advance, and wound on a bobbin.
  • the drain pipe is placed into a cylinder, the sleeve is unwound from the bobbin and applied around the cylinder. Subsequently, the drain pipe is removed from the cylinder, the sleeve being carried along by the drain pipe. This process is rather labour-intensive.
  • the sleeve is knitted around the drain pipe, whereby the drain pipe is used as a core.
  • the adhesive is applied onto the drain pipe simultaneously with the knitting, so that the sleeve can be fixed to the drain pipe as it is being knitted.
  • This process offers the advantage that the size of the sleeve can be adapted to the size of the drain pipe.
  • the manufacturing and fixing of the sleeve to the drain pipe may be carried out in one single production step. In this way, it is possible to keep the production costs of the covered drain pipe relatively low, notwithstanding the use of an adhesive which is often somewhat more expensive.
  • the sleeve By fixing the sleeve in longitudinal direction of the drain pipe to the drain pipe, the sleeve is fixed on the drain pipe, so that the sleeve is kept in place, even in case the ends of the sleeve come loose from the ends of the drain pipe.
  • Such a fixing of the sleeve to the drain pipe also allows the covered drain pipe to be cut at any desired length, even after the sleeve has been applied around the drain pipe, without thereby adversely influencing the filtering action of the sleeve.
  • the fixing of the sleeve to the drain pipe namely prevents the sleeve, upon the sectioning of the drain pipe, from shrinking and retracting in longitudinal direction of the drain pipe. Because the knitting of the sleeve is stretched around the drain pipe, upon the sectioning of the covered drain pipe, the knitting will namely shrink and retract in longitudinal direction of the drain pipe, in order to re-adopt its original non-stretched shape.
  • a fixing of the sleeve to the drain pipe offers a particular advantage for covered drain pipes which are provided to be applied with their longitudinal axis vertically into the ground.
  • the fixing of the sleeve in longitudinal direction of the drain pipe prevents the sleeve from retracting in longitudinal direction of the drain pipe upon moving the covered drain pipe in the ground.
  • a strip shaped filter which can be laid down into a trench upon a drain pipe.
  • the filter material comprises fibrous peat material which is pressed into a sheet and applied onto a layer of kraft paper.
  • a covered drain pipe is known, the sleeve of which is formed by strips of a sintered polymer material, which are spirally wound around the drain pipe.
  • the strips are fixed to each other or to the drain pipe to prevent them from shifting with respect to each other, which would result in the loss of their filtering action.
  • an adhesive is used, selected such that it shows a good affinity to both the material of the drain pipe and the material of the sleeve.
  • the adhesive may for example be a glue, which is applied in the cold state, or a hot melt glue.
  • the adhesive may also be manufactured from the same material as the drain pipe and/or the sleeve. In that case, the adhesive is preferably applied in the hot, liquid or molten state, so that the adhesive and the material of the sleeve and/or the drain pipe may flow into each other and a continuous transition is formed.
  • a very suitable glue is a hot melt glue which remains sticky even after cooling down.
  • the use of such a glue allows that, in case the sleeve comes loose from the drain pipe, the sleeve is again fixed to the drain pipe by contacting the sleeve with the adhesive and exerting some pressure on the sleeve.
  • other glues generally known to the man skilled in the art, may be used.
  • the sleeve is preferably fixed over substantially its entire length to the drain pipe. This allows the sectioning of the covered drain pipe in any desired site, without thereby adversely influencing the fixing of the sleeve to the drain pipe.
  • the sleeve may be fixed in cross direction of the drain pipe, in one or more sites to the drain pipe.
  • the adhesive may also be applied over the entire circumference of the drain pipe.
  • the covered drain pipe may further be enveloped by a second sleeve of a filter material.
  • the first sleeve may show finer or coarser meshes than the second sleeve, or the same.
  • the first and second sleeves may have a same or a different porosity.
  • the second sleeve is preferably fixed in longitudinal direction to the covered drain pipe, as described above for the sleeve.
  • a coupling piece is applied at an end of the drain pipe around the external wall of the drain pipe.
  • the coupling piece is mostly fixed in the drain pipe, and the end of the sleeve is secured between the wall of the drain pipe and the coupling piece.
  • this has the disadvantage that the knitting is stretched over the mostly sharp edge of the drain pipe, as a consequence of which the knitting shows an increased risk of fraying and partially looses its filtering action.
  • the coupling piece is fitted over the covered drain pipe, so that the knitting at the end of the drain pipe is covered and protected. This is especially important for drain pipes which are provided to be placed in vertical or substantially vertical direction into the ground.
  • Figure 1 is a view on the external side of the covered drain pipe obtained with the process according to the invention, whereby the sleeve has been partially omitted.
  • Figure 2 is a cross section of the covered drain pipe obtained with the process according to the invention.
  • This invention concerns a process for manufacturing of a covered drain pipe, whereby the sleeve 2 is knitted around the drain pipe 1, and the drain pipe 1 is used as a core.
  • the adhesive is applied to the drain pipe 1 simultaneously with the knitting of the sleeve 2.
  • Such a process allows to fix the sleeve 2 to the drain pipe, substantially simultaneously with the knitting.
  • the embodiment of the covered drain pipe shown in figure 1 obtained with the process of this invention comprises a drain pipe 1.
  • the drain pipe 1 may be manufactured from a watertight material, a porous material or a material which is permeable to water.
  • the drain pipe 1 may have various shapes. It may be cylindrical, or it may have any other desired shape.
  • the external wall 3 of the drain pipe may be smooth, ribbed or corrugated. If the drain pipe 1 is ribbed, mostly openings 5 are provided between the ribs 4 through which water may flow into or out of the pipe.
  • the drain pipe may be manufactured from various materials, for example polyethylene, polypropylene, polyvinyl chloride, a ceramic material or metal.
  • the drain pipe 1 is enveloped by a sleeve 2 of a filter material.
  • the filter material is preferably a knitting, which is permeable to water and possibly other liquids.
  • the sleeve 2 is preferably a cylindrically shaped seamless sleeve.
  • the sleeve 2 may be made from various materials.
  • the sleeve 2 may for example be a knitting of a yam of natural fibres, a polymer yarn or mixtures thereof. Suitable polymers include polyester, polyacryl, polyethylene, polypropylene.
  • the sleeve 2 may also be made from fibres of viscose, cellulose, acetates, tri-acetates or proteins.
  • the drain pipe 1 and sleeve 2 may be constructed from a same or from different materials.
  • the covered drain pipe may be enveloped once more by a second sleeve.
  • This second sleeve may be manufactured from a same material as the sleeve 2, or a different material.
  • the second sleeve may be manufactured from a knitting with the same or different meshes and the same or a different porosity as the sleeve 2.
  • the second sleeve is preferably also fixed to the covered drain pipe by means of an adhesive.
  • the sleeve 2 is in longitudinal direction of the drain pipe 1 fixed to the drain pipe.
  • This may for example be realised by means of a continuous strip of an adhesive 6, which is for example applied in longitudinal direction or diagonally on the drain pipe. It is also possible to apply two or more strips of an adhesive to the drain pipe, which may be parallel, or not.
  • the adhesive may be applied in the form of a continuous strip, a regularly interrupted strip, or as a series of dots in longitudinal direction of the drain pipe, or as a series of dots which are distributed regularly or randomly over the circumference of the drain pipe.
  • the adhesive 6 is thereby preferably selected such, that it shows a good affinity to the material of the drain pipe 1 and the material of the sleeve 2.
  • the adhesive 6 may for example be a cold glue, or a hot melt glue which is applied in a hot state to the drain pipe 1.
  • the adhesive 6 and the drain pipe 1 may also be manufactured from a same material. In that case, the adhesive 6 is preferably applied in the hot, molten state to the external wall 3 of the drain pipe.
  • the hot molten adhesive 6 is capable of melting a surface layer of the external wall 3 of the drain pipe 1, as a consequence of which both phases at least partially blend into each other, so as to obtain a good adhesion of the sleeve 2 to the drain pipe 1.
  • the adhesive 6 is preferably coloured in a colour differing from the colour of the sleeve 2. In that case, the sites in which the sleeve 2 is fixed to the drain pipe 1, and thus the sites in which the covered drain pipe may be sectioned without thereby adversely influencing the filtering action of the sleeve 2, become visible.
  • the drain pipe 1 is preferably at least at one end provided with a coupling piece 7.
  • the coupling piece 7 envelops the external wall 3 of the drain pipe 1.
  • the sleeve 2 is secured between the external wall 3 and the internal wall 10 of the coupling piece 7.
  • the coupling piece may be fixed in various ways to the drain pipe.
  • the coupling piece 7 may comprise a cylindrically shaped pipe which is clamped around the covered drain pipe.
  • the coupling piece 7 may be fixed to the drain pipe by means of glueing or in a mechanical way, for example by means of stapling. Staples form a cheap fixing, which may be applied rapidly.
  • the coupling piece 7 may for example also comprise a screw thread, which engages the ribs of the drain pipe.
  • the coupling piece 7 may be provided for the sealing of the drain pipe. In that case, one end of the coupling piece 7 is closed.
  • the coupling piece 7 may also be provided for the coupling of two or more drain pipes.
  • the covered drain pipe obtained with the process of this invention is suitable for use in different fields of application. It may for example be used for a permanent draining of a ground, a building, or a sports site. In that case, it is mostly applied horizontally in the ground. It may also be used as a discharge pipe to return water to the ground.

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Abstract

This invention concerns a covered drain pipe comprising a drain pipe (1) with a length which is enveloped by a sleeve (2) of a knitting of a filter material, whereby the sleeve (2) is fixed to the drain pipe (1) in longitudinal direction of the drain pipe (1). The invention also concerns a process for manufacturing a covered drain pipe. <IMAGE>

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  • This invention concerns a process for manufacturing a covered drain pipe comprising a drain pipe which is enveloped by a sleeve of a knitting of a filter material according to the preamble of the first claim.
  • Such a covered drain pipe may among others be used for draining the ground. The drain pipe is mostly a ribbed hose, openings being provided between the ribs through which water may flow into or out of the drain pipe. In order to prevent the openings from being blocked by particles flowing through the openings together with the influent water, the drain pipe is enveloped by a filter to hold up these particles.
  • In the covered drain pipe described in EP-A-0,029,713 the filter is formed by a cylindrically shaped sleeve of an elastic knitting, stretched around the drain pipe. The knitting is mostly manufactured previously, in large lengths of 300 m for example, subsequently applied around the drain pipe and attached to the ends of the drain pipe.
  • The covered drain pipe known from EP-A-0,029,713 however has the disadvantage that the filter may come loose from the drain pipe, as a consequence of which the drain pipe is no longer enveloped over its entire length by the sleeve, and the filtering action of the sleeve is at least partially lost.
  • From FR-A-1.576.289, a covered drain filter is known comprising a drain pipe, a sleeve of a knitting of a filter material being fixed to the drain pipe in longitudinal direction of the drain pipe. The sleeve may be adhered to the drain pipe along the entire contact area between the drain pipe and the sleeve or at contact points between the sleeve and the pipe.
  • In another known process, the sleeve is manufactured separately in advance, and wound on a bobbin. The drain pipe is placed into a cylinder, the sleeve is unwound from the bobbin and applied around the cylinder. Subsequently, the drain pipe is removed from the cylinder, the sleeve being carried along by the drain pipe. This process is rather labour-intensive.
  • It is the aim of this invention to provide an improved process for manufacturing a covered drain pipe.
  • This is achieved according to the invention with the measures described in the characterising part of the first claim.
  • In the process of the invention, the sleeve is knitted around the drain pipe, whereby the drain pipe is used as a core. In the process according to the invention, the adhesive is applied onto the drain pipe simultaneously with the knitting, so that the sleeve can be fixed to the drain pipe as it is being knitted. This process offers the advantage that the size of the sleeve can be adapted to the size of the drain pipe. Moreover, the manufacturing and fixing of the sleeve to the drain pipe may be carried out in one single production step. In this way, it is possible to keep the production costs of the covered drain pipe relatively low, notwithstanding the use of an adhesive which is often somewhat more expensive.
  • By fixing the sleeve in longitudinal direction of the drain pipe to the drain pipe, the sleeve is fixed on the drain pipe, so that the sleeve is kept in place, even in case the ends of the sleeve come loose from the ends of the drain pipe. Such a fixing of the sleeve to the drain pipe also allows the covered drain pipe to be cut at any desired length, even after the sleeve has been applied around the drain pipe, without thereby adversely influencing the filtering action of the sleeve.
  • The fixing of the sleeve to the drain pipe namely prevents the sleeve, upon the sectioning of the drain pipe, from shrinking and retracting in longitudinal direction of the drain pipe. Because the knitting of the sleeve is stretched around the drain pipe, upon the sectioning of the covered drain pipe, the knitting will namely shrink and retract in longitudinal direction of the drain pipe, in order to re-adopt its original non-stretched shape.
  • It was also found that neither the filtering action of the sleeve, nor the permeability of the drain pipe were adversely influenced by the presence of the adhesive.
  • A fixing of the sleeve to the drain pipe offers a particular advantage for covered drain pipes which are provided to be applied with their longitudinal axis vertically into the ground. The fixing of the sleeve in longitudinal direction of the drain pipe prevents the sleeve from retracting in longitudinal direction of the drain pipe upon moving the covered drain pipe in the ground.
  • From EP-A-208.043, a strip shaped filter is known which can be laid down into a trench upon a drain pipe. The filter material comprises fibrous peat material which is pressed into a sheet and applied onto a layer of kraft paper.
  • From EP-A-0.007.045 a covered drain pipe is known, the sleeve of which is formed by strips of a sintered polymer material, which are spirally wound around the drain pipe. The strips are fixed to each other or to the drain pipe to prevent them from shifting with respect to each other, which would result in the loss of their filtering action.
  • In order to fix the sleeve to the drain pipe, preferably an adhesive is used, selected such that it shows a good affinity to both the material of the drain pipe and the material of the sleeve. The adhesive may for example be a glue, which is applied in the cold state, or a hot melt glue. The adhesive may also be manufactured from the same material as the drain pipe and/or the sleeve. In that case, the adhesive is preferably applied in the hot, liquid or molten state, so that the adhesive and the material of the sleeve and/or the drain pipe may flow into each other and a continuous transition is formed.
  • A very suitable glue is a hot melt glue which remains sticky even after cooling down. The use of such a glue allows that, in case the sleeve comes loose from the drain pipe, the sleeve is again fixed to the drain pipe by contacting the sleeve with the adhesive and exerting some pressure on the sleeve. However, according to the invention also other glues, generally known to the man skilled in the art, may be used.
  • It is also possible to fix the sleeve to the drain pipe by means of ultrasonic vibration. In that way an optimal blending of the material of the sleeve and the material of the drain pipe can namely be obtained.
  • According to the invention, the sleeve is preferably fixed over substantially its entire length to the drain pipe. This allows the sectioning of the covered drain pipe in any desired site, without thereby adversely influencing the fixing of the sleeve to the drain pipe.
  • The sleeve may be fixed in cross direction of the drain pipe, in one or more sites to the drain pipe. The adhesive may also be applied over the entire circumference of the drain pipe.
  • According to the invention, the covered drain pipe may further be enveloped by a second sleeve of a filter material. Thereby the first sleeve may show finer or coarser meshes than the second sleeve, or the same. The first and second sleeves may have a same or a different porosity. The second sleeve is preferably fixed in longitudinal direction to the covered drain pipe, as described above for the sleeve.
  • In the process according to the invention, preferably a coupling piece is applied at an end of the drain pipe around the external wall of the drain pipe.
  • In the known covered drain pipe, the coupling piece is mostly fixed in the drain pipe, and the end of the sleeve is secured between the wall of the drain pipe and the coupling piece. However, this has the disadvantage that the knitting is stretched over the mostly sharp edge of the drain pipe, as a consequence of which the knitting shows an increased risk of fraying and partially looses its filtering action.
  • According to the invention, the coupling piece is fitted over the covered drain pipe, so that the knitting at the end of the drain pipe is covered and protected. This is especially important for drain pipes which are provided to be placed in vertical or substantially vertical direction into the ground.
  • The invention is further elucidated by means of the attached figures and description of the figures.
  • Figure 1 is a view on the external side of the covered drain pipe obtained with the process according to the invention, whereby the sleeve has been partially omitted.
  • Figure 2 is a cross section of the covered drain pipe obtained with the process according to the invention.
  • This invention concerns a process for manufacturing of a covered drain pipe, whereby the sleeve 2 is knitted around the drain pipe 1, and the drain pipe 1 is used as a core. In the process according to the invention, the adhesive is applied to the drain pipe 1 simultaneously with the knitting of the sleeve 2. Such a process allows to fix the sleeve 2 to the drain pipe, substantially simultaneously with the knitting.
  • The embodiment of the covered drain pipe shown in figure 1 obtained with the process of this invention comprises a drain pipe 1. The drain pipe 1 may be manufactured from a watertight material, a porous material or a material which is permeable to water. The drain pipe 1 may have various shapes. It may be cylindrical, or it may have any other desired shape. The external wall 3 of the drain pipe may be smooth, ribbed or corrugated. If the drain pipe 1 is ribbed, mostly openings 5 are provided between the ribs 4 through which water may flow into or out of the pipe. The drain pipe may be manufactured from various materials, for example polyethylene, polypropylene, polyvinyl chloride, a ceramic material or metal.
  • The drain pipe 1 is enveloped by a sleeve 2 of a filter material. The filter material is preferably a knitting, which is permeable to water and possibly other liquids. The sleeve 2 is preferably a cylindrically shaped seamless sleeve. The sleeve 2 may be made from various materials. The sleeve 2 may for example be a knitting of a yam of natural fibres, a polymer yarn or mixtures thereof. Suitable polymers include polyester, polyacryl, polyethylene, polypropylene. The sleeve 2 may also be made from fibres of viscose, cellulose, acetates, tri-acetates or proteins.
  • The drain pipe 1 and sleeve 2 may be constructed from a same or from different materials.
  • According to the invention, the covered drain pipe may be enveloped once more by a second sleeve. This second sleeve may be manufactured from a same material as the sleeve 2, or a different material. The second sleeve may be manufactured from a knitting with the same or different meshes and the same or a different porosity as the sleeve 2. The second sleeve is preferably also fixed to the covered drain pipe by means of an adhesive.
  • The sleeve 2 is in longitudinal direction of the drain pipe 1 fixed to the drain pipe. This may for example be realised by means of a continuous strip of an adhesive 6, which is for example applied in longitudinal direction or diagonally on the drain pipe. It is also possible to apply two or more strips of an adhesive to the drain pipe, which may be parallel, or not. The adhesive may be applied in the form of a continuous strip, a regularly interrupted strip, or as a series of dots in longitudinal direction of the drain pipe, or as a series of dots which are distributed regularly or randomly over the circumference of the drain pipe.
  • The adhesive 6 is thereby preferably selected such, that it shows a good affinity to the material of the drain pipe 1 and the material of the sleeve 2. The adhesive 6 may for example be a cold glue, or a hot melt glue which is applied in a hot state to the drain pipe 1. The adhesive 6 and the drain pipe 1 may also be manufactured from a same material. In that case, the adhesive 6 is preferably applied in the hot, molten state to the external wall 3 of the drain pipe.The hot molten adhesive 6 is capable of melting a surface layer of the external wall 3 of the drain pipe 1, as a consequence of which both phases at least partially blend into each other, so as to obtain a good adhesion of the sleeve 2 to the drain pipe 1.
  • The adhesive 6 is preferably coloured in a colour differing from the colour of the sleeve 2. In that case, the sites in which the sleeve 2 is fixed to the drain pipe 1, and thus the sites in which the covered drain pipe may be sectioned without thereby adversely influencing the filtering action of the sleeve 2, become visible.
  • In the process of the present invention, the drain pipe 1 is preferably at least at one end provided with a coupling piece 7. The coupling piece 7 envelops the external wall 3 of the drain pipe 1. The sleeve 2 is secured between the external wall 3 and the internal wall 10 of the coupling piece 7. The coupling piece may be fixed in various ways to the drain pipe. The coupling piece 7 may comprise a cylindrically shaped pipe which is clamped around the covered drain pipe. The coupling piece 7 may be fixed to the drain pipe by means of glueing or in a mechanical way, for example by means of stapling. Staples form a cheap fixing, which may be applied rapidly. The coupling piece 7 may for example also comprise a screw thread, which engages the ribs of the drain pipe.
  • The coupling piece 7 may be provided for the sealing of the drain pipe. In that case, one end of the coupling piece 7 is closed. The coupling piece 7 may also be provided for the coupling of two or more drain pipes.
  • The covered drain pipe obtained with the process of this invention is suitable for use in different fields of application. It may for example be used for a permanent draining of a ground, a building, or a sports site. In that case, it is mostly applied horizontally in the ground. It may also be used as a discharge pipe to return water to the ground.

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  1. Process for manufacturing a covered drain pipe comprising a drain pipe enveloped by a sleeve of a knitting of a filter material, characterised in that the sleeve is knitted around the drain pipe, and the sleeve is substantially simultaneously fixed to the drain pipe as it is knitted.
  2. The process according to claim 1, characterized in that the sleeve is fixed to the drain pipe in longitudinal direction of the drain pipe.
  3. The process according to claim 1 or 2, characterized in that the sleeve is fixed to the drain pipe over substantially the entire length of the drain pipe.
  4. The process according to any one of claims 1-3, characterized in that the sleeve is fixed to the drain pipe by means of a hot melt glue.
  5. The process according to any one of claims 1-4, characterised in the sleeve is fixed to the drain pipe by means of a continuous strip of an adhesive, applied in longitudinal direction of the drain pipe.
  6. The process according to any one of claims 1-5, characterised in that the sleeve is fixed to the drain pipe by dots of an adhesive applied randomly over the circumference of the drain pipe.
  7. The process according to any one of claims 1-6, characterised in that a second sleeve of a filter material is enveloped around the covered drain pipe.
  8. The process according to any one of claims 1 to 7, characterised in that a coupling piece is provided at an end of the drain pipe around the external wall of the drain pipe.
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ES98202189T ES2226062T3 (en) 1998-06-30 1998-06-30 COVERED DRAIN PIPE.
EP98202189A EP0969151B1 (en) 1998-06-30 1998-06-30 Covered drainpipe
DK98202189T DK0969151T3 (en) 1998-06-30 1998-06-30 Covered drainage pipe
DE69825039T DE69825039T2 (en) 1998-06-30 1998-06-30 Sheathed drainage pipe
AT98202189T ATE271161T1 (en) 1998-06-30 1998-06-30 COVERED DRAINAGE PIPE

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