The B. F. Goodrich Company

Central Sprinkler Company

Pmd Holdings Corp.

Noveon, Inc.

Andrew L Auvil

Girish T Dalal

Theodore Joseph Schmitz

Thomas L Evans

Stephen J Meyer

George G Meyer

Carmine L Schiavone

Fred Brannan

Andrew M Olah

Arthur L Backman

A Donald Meltzer

John C Bushi

Stefanie Hahnen-Schroeder

Michael D Vaughn

Anthony Kordecki

James J Dedrick

A multi-layered pipe of arbitrary length and cross-section is produced by co-extrusion of a lower polyolefin (C&#x2013;C) outer body over the exterior surface of a tubular core of randomly, partially randomly, or blocky chlorinated lower polyolefin, the core having a wall thickness, measured in the radial direction, in the range from about 0.025 mm to 5 mm. The tubular core is coextensive with essentially the entire length of the pipe. The tubular core comprises a major proportion by weight of the randomly chlorinated polyolefin (r-CPO), or, partially randomly chlorinated polyolefin (pr-CPO), or, a blocky chlorinated polyolefin (b-CPO), any of which may be blended with a minor proportion by weight of a blending ingredient. The r-CPO, pr-CPO or b-CPO, or a blend thereof, each has an extrusion temperature in the same range as that for the corresponding non-halogenated polyolefin, namely in the range from about 150&#xb0; C. to 250&#xb0; C.

Polyefinic pipe having a chlorinated polyolefinic hollow core

A multilayer composite pipe structure is described. The multilayer composite pipe comprises a hollow inner conduit, a first layer of adhesive, a metallic intermediate layer, a second layer of adhesive, as well as, the outer thermoplastic layer, respectively. The hollow inner conduit is made from any rigid thermoplastic material. The outer thermoplastic layer is made from a rigid, amorphous thermoplastic polymer. This multilayer composite pipe is pressure bearing. In one embodiment, the multilayer composite pipe is solvent cementable; whereas in another embodiment, the multilayer composite pipe is heat fusible. In still yet another embodiment of the invention, the multilayer composite pipe is bendable. Furthermore, the multilayer composite pipe can be used in a fluid conduit system with fittings with an optional insert.

Multilayer composite pipe fluid conduit system using multilayer composite pipe and method of making the composite

Multilayer fluid conduits are formed by adhering to a tubular outer surface of a metal pipe, a thermoplastic outer layer. The outer layer permits ends of the multilayer conduit to be joined together in leak-proof fluid conduit systems simply by adhering the conduit ends with compatible thermoplastic fittings. For fire protection systems, the preferred metal is steel, the preferred thermoplastic is CPVC and the preferred adhesive is heat activated. The adhesive coated metal pipe is preheated and the CPVC is extruded onto the outer surface of the heated metal pipe. Through the use of fire resistive CPVC, the multilayer conduit systems of the present invention can be installed in more severe fire threat areas than can existing, all plastic piping, including all CPVC piping systems. The conduit is assembled into systems on site simply by cutting and direct bonding with ordinary, all plastic fittings using appropriate bonding agents such as solvent based adhesives. CPVC fittings are preferred for fire protection systems.

Fluid conduit systems and methods for making

Multilayer fluid conduits

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Brecksville, OH, United States of America

Andrew L Auvil