Abstract:
A branch pipe liner bag immune to damage caused by a cutter is provided. In the branch pipe liner bag having a flange formed at an end of a hardenable resin impregnated bag which comprises a tubular resin-absorbent material impregnated with an unhardened liquid hardenable resin, a cylindrical anti-piercing protector 3 is embedded adjacent to the flange. According to a pipe lining method implemented using the branch pipe liner bag according to the present invention, the branch pipe liner bag adjacent to the flange is, after a branch pipe is lined, protected by the anti-piercing protector, and therefore, in a piercing work thereafter of a main pipe liner bag, the branch pipe liner bag is immune from damage caused by a cutter, thereby eliminating a problem such as infiltration of the underground water into the main pipe from a damaged portion.
Abstract:
A flexible tubular manhole liner soaked with a curable liquid resin is inserted into a manhole; this liner is already equipped with a number of bolts or sleeve nuts protruding or exposed from the liner surface, so that it is possible later to attach to the inner wall of the tubular liner a number of ladder steps and a hose for injecting liquid filler to the gap created between the manhole wall and the liner; there is provided a method to line the manhole with such an inventive liner.
Abstract:
A branch pipe lining method is provided which can directly achieve an air-tight connection between a pressure bag and a branch pipe liner bag in a simple structure without employing a conventional sealed tube. An open end of the pressure bag is attached to a set nozzle attached to a work robot which is movably installed in a main pipe. A branch pipe liner bag, impregnated with a thermosetting resin, is placed inside the pressure bag. The liner bag has a flange which is removably attached to the set nozzle by fitting a protrusion formed on a surface of the flange into a concave groove formed in the set nozzle. With the flange being closely contacted to the inner wall of the main pipe around a branch pipe opening, compressed air is supplied into the pressure bag to evert and insert the branch pipe liner bag into a branch pipe. While the branch pipe liner bag is pressed against the inner wall of the branch pipe, the thermosetting resin impregnated in the branch pipe liner bag is cured, whereby the inner wall of the branch pipe is lined with the cured thermosetting resin, i.e., the branch pipe is repaired. Upon completing the lining operation, the protrusion is disengaged from the concave groove to remove the work robot and the pressure bag from the branch pipe liner bag.
Abstract:
A pipe liner bag is provided for reliably lining a pipe into which water may penetrate. The pipe liner bag has a double layer structure including an inner layer of a tubular nonwoven fabric made of fine yarn of three deniers or less and an outer layer of a tubular nonwoven fabric made of fat yarn of 3-15 deniers. The tubular nonwoven fabric constituting the inner layer is impregnated with highly viscous and thixotropic hardenable resin mixed with granule fillers of a small diameter, while the tubular nonwoven fabric constituting the outer layer is impregnated with hardenable resin mixed with granule filler of a large diameter. After the pipe liner bag is everted and inserted into a pipe to be repaired by fluid pressure, the hardenable resin impregnated in the pipe liner bag is cured while maintaining the internal pressure thereof constant. When this pipe liner bag is used to repair a pipe from which a branch pipe is branched off, it can be integrated with a branch pipe liner bag.
Abstract:
An improved method for impregnating a tubular lining material with a hardenable liquid resin employed in a pipe repair operation by lining the pipe internally with the lining material; the method comprises (a) supplying about the same amounts of the same hardenable liquid resin to two mixing baths, (b) mixing the hardenable liquid resin with an agent to retard hardening and another agent selected from catalyst to facilitate hardening and hardener in one of the mixing baths, and, at the same time, mixing the hardenable liquid resin with a hardening accelerator in another one of the mixing baths, (c) supplying predetermined amounts of these mixtures to a static mixer from the respective mixing baths, (d) mixing these mixtures together in the static mixer to obtain a final mixture of hardenable resin, (e) supplying the final mixture to the tubular lining material, and (f) impregnating the tubular lining material with the final mixture.
Abstract:
A pipe liner bag includes a tubular resin absorbent material formed from a sheet of such material. Opposing ends of the sheet is seamed together to form the tubular shape. A hardenable resin is impregnated in the resin absorbent material. A seam protection tape covers an outer surface of the seamed portion. An air-tight plastic film covers the remainder of the outer surface. A sealing ribbon tape, which is larger than the seam protection tape, is affixed over the seam protection tape to air-tightly seal the seamed portion.
Abstract:
A liner bag for a manhole can have an improved durability after hardening with a fluid pressure barrier film left on the inner wall of a lined manhole, and a method of lining a manhole using the liner bag is capable of realizing a reduction in the number of steps involved in a manhole lining process to reduce a working time and a working cost. The liner bag for a manhole has an outer-layer liner bag including a first bag-shaped resin absorbent material, and an unhardened liquid hardenable resin impregnated in the first bag-shaped resin absorbent material, and an inner-layer liner bag including a second bag-shaped resin absorbent material, a highly air-tight plastic film coated over an inner surface of the second bag-shaped resin absorbent material, and an unhardened liquid hardenable resin impregnated in the second bag-shaped resin absorbent material, wherein the inner-layer liner bag has a thickness smaller than the outer-layer liner bag, and the inner-layer liner bag being inserted in the outer-layer liner bag. With the liner bag thus configure, since the manhole lining method performed using the manhole liner bag eliminates the necessity of stripping off the plastic film functioning as a fluid pressure barrier liner from the hardened liner bag and wasting the same, as before, it is possible to realize a reduction in the number of steps involved in the lining process, a working term, and a working cost.
Abstract:
A method for lining an underground sewer pipe: (a) preparing a tubular liner made of a tubular fabric layer soaked with a thermosetting liquid resin and two layers of airtight film with which inner and outer walls of the fabric layer are covered; (b) inserting the liner assembly into the tubular conduit from the front end by pulling the front end with a rope; (c) inflating the tubular liner assembly after closing the front and the rear ends thereof; (d) heating the thermosetting resin to thereby harden the fabric layer of the liner assembly; and (e) removing those portions of the tubular liner assembly which do not partake in lining the tubular conduit.
Abstract:
An economical branch pipe liner bag is provided. The branch pipe liner bag allows for a reduction in manufacturing cost, stabilized quality, and mass-production, and does not have any portion to be wasted when used. One end of a tubular resin absorbent material impregnated with an unhardened hardenable resin is outwardly folded and pressed to form an extension which is sandwiched between separate flange forming members to form a flange at the one end of the tubular resin absorbent material, thus constructing the branch pipe liner bag. Since the branch pipe liner bag has the flange formed at one end by integrally coupling the flange forming members, which are members separate from the tubular resin absorbent material, the flange forming members can be mechanically mass-produced independently of the tubular resin absorbent material, with the result that a manufacturing cost of these flange forming members is reduced, and consequently a manufacturing cost of the branch pipe liner bag is reduced.
Abstract:
A tubular liner, for lining the inner wall of a pipe, comprises a plurality of composite liner tubes, each liner type contains an inner layer of a resin-absorbable sheet and an outer layer of hermetic plastic film. The composite liner tubes are joined by spirally stitched abutting ends. In an embodiment, the inner resin-absorbable sheets are joined. An adhesive can be applied to the inner and outer walls of the resin-absorbable sheet along the stitched spiral seam.