Abstract:
A pipe lining method provides for precise cutting of a main pipe liner bag along a branch pipe opening using a cutter while preventing the inner wall of a branch pipe and the cutter from damages. After a cutting protection member is attached along the periphery of a branch pipe opening of a main pipe, the main pipe is lined using a main pipe liner bag. Then, a cutter of a cutting robot introduced into the main pipe is driven to cut away a portion of the main pipe liner bag covering a branch pipe opening. Since the cutting protection member functions as a guide for the cutter when cutting the portion of the main pipe liner bag covering the branch pipe opening as well as functions as a protection member for protecting the inner wall of the branch pipe, thereby making it possible to precisely cut the main pipe liner bag along the branch pipe opening using the cutter and to prevent the inner wall of the branch pipe and the cutter from damages.
Abstract:
A branch pipe liner bag is provided for reliably lining a branch pipe even having a curved portion. The branch pipe liner bag has a tubular resin-absorbent material having a flange formed at one end thereof, the outer surface of which is covered with a highly air-tight film. The tubular resin-absorbent material is impregnated with an unhardened hardenable resin, and a separable tube is attached to the flange. According to this invention, since the separable tube is attached to the previously hardened flange of the branch pipe liner bag, the separable tube will never be torn or cut even if the branch pipe liner bag is everted and inserted into a branch pipe having a curved portion with a high fluid pressure, or even if the film covering the branch pipe liner bag is heated and therefore softened by a heat medium or heat generated by the hardening of the thermosetting resin. It is therefore possible to reliably line a branch pipe even having a curved portion, using the branch pipe liner bag, and repair the branch pipe.
Abstract:
A mobile cutter robot for making a hole is equipped with a rotary grinder assembly consisting essentially of an abrasive body having an axis of rotation, a ball bearing coaxially embedded in the surface of the abrasive body, and a tubular connector by which the rotary grinder assembly is detachably connected to a drive shaft of the cutter robot.
Abstract:
A bent pipe lining method which can get rid of bulky creases of the liner commonly formed at the bends of the pipe, and the method is characterized by a use of a flat belt that is hitched to the sewn-end of the liner bag, which pulls the flat belt inside itself as it is everted into the bent pipe; when the liner bag is hardened the flat belt is kept stretched so as to keep the bulky creases compressed and bent flatly.
Abstract:
A tubular liner bag is everted into a pipe to line the same, by first attaching an air hose end to the uneverted liner bag and then everting the tubular liner bag by water pressure provided into the manhole to the pipe. The head of the tubular liner bag is turned toward the pipe entrance when the head of the liner bag hits the inner wall of the pipe, and the tubular liner bag is everted into the pipe. The eversion is then stopped and the everted tubular liner bag is deformed to a J-shape with its head portion corresponding to the toe of the J-shape. Compressed air at a pressure not substantially greater than the pressure required to force the tubular liner bag to evert then exists in the toe section of the tubular liner bag but does not exist in the long-leg section. The air compressor is used to supply compressed air into the head portion of the tubular liner bag via the air hose to increase the internal pressure in the head portion of the tubular liner to a value substantially greater than a required to force the tubular liner bag to evert.
Abstract:
A branch pipe lining method of the invention utilizes a branch pipe liner bag impregnated with a hardenable resin and having a flange at one end thereof, wherein the flange is folded out and mounted to a fluid pressure sealing nozzle; the branch pipe liner bag is everted and insertied into a branch pipe; an upper end of the branch pipe liner bag is pulled up by a rope or the like with the flange thereof being secured on the inner wall of the main pipe; the fluid pressure sealing nozzle is removed from the branch pipe liner bag; a sealing pressure bag introduced into the main pipe is expanded to seal a lower opening of the branch pipe liner bag with the sealing pressure bag; the upper end of the branch pipe liner bag is closed, and the branch pipe liner bag is pressed against the inner wall of the branch pipe with a fluid pressure; and the hardenable resin impregnated in the branch pipe liner bag is hardened while the branch pipe liner bag is continuously being pressed against the inner wall of the branch pipe. After the lining is completed, the sealing pressure bag can be easily removed from the branch pipe liner bag after it has been hardened, so that any fragment of the sealing pressure bag will not remain on the inner wall of the branch pipe, with the result that the inner wall surface of the branch pipe can be maintained in a favorable condition.
Abstract:
A tubular liner for lining the inner wall of a pipe such as sewer pipe made up of a flexible tubular resin-absorbent fabric to be impregnated with a thermosetting liquid resin and a tubular plastic film welded on the external surface of the tubular resin-absorbent fabric; also disclosed are the methods for making such tubular liner and for impregnating such tubular liner with the thermosetting liquid resin, and in particular the impregnation method is characterized by using a plurality of vacuum suction hoses.
Abstract:
A method for repairing a pipe comprising the steps of:(a) coating a resin-absorbable tubular liner, at least one side thereof which becomes the inner side eventually, with a hermetic film;(b) inserting the resin-absorbable tubular liner into the pipe to be repaired;(c) impregnating the thermosetting resin into the resin-absorbable tubular liner;(d) closing one end of the tubular liner and passing a sprinkler means in the tubular liner to extend from the closed end to the open end of the tubular liner;(e) sending pressurized air into the tubular liner from the open end thereof to thereby inflate the tubular liner to fit closely in the pipe;(f) sending in the sprinkler means a hot liquid of a temperature sufficiently high to cause the thermosetting resin impregnated in the tubular liner to harden, to thereby sprinkle the hot liquid onto the tubular liner to thereby harden the thermosetting resin impregnated therein; and(g) cutting off the ends of the tubular liner.