Thermon Manufacturing Company

Ben C Johnson

Patrick E Cassidy

Robert E Anderson

J Scott Thornton

Donald E Glowe

James E Bilbro

Pieter Band

An electrical heating cable which limits power output once an established temperature limit is reached. The cable includes a high-resistance element and a temperature-sensitive variable resistance element electrically connected in series between two electrical conductors otherwise insulated from each other by insulating material. The temperature-sensitive resistance undergoes a substantial positive increase in resistivity when the temperature of the cable nears the established temperature limit. The increase in resistivity substantially reduces the heat-generating current flowing in the cable to limit the power output.

Self-limiting temperature electrical heating cable

An electrical heating cable which limits power output once an established temperature limit is reached. The cable includes heating elements in the form of temperature-sensitive variable resistance elements electrically connected in parallel between two supply bases at spaced positions along the length of the buses. The heating elements not only serve to generate heat for heating but also undergo a substantial positive increase in resistivity when the temperature of the cable nears the established temperature limit. The increase in resistivity substantially reduces the heat-generating current in the cable to limit the power output to within established heat limits.

Electrical heating cable with temperature self-limiting heating elements

A mounting apparatus for releasably securing an external member to a tubular member having a resilient, curved clamp member with open ends. The curved clamp member extends for more than 180.degree. but less than 360.degree., having a diameter less than the diameter of the tubular member prior to mounting the curved clamp member to the tubular member. The curved clamp member further includes a mounting portion opposite the open ends for engaging an external member for holding the same securely to the tubular member.

Mounting apparatus

A preinsulated pipe assembly and pipeline formed from a plurality of such assemblies. Each pipe assembly includes a pipe with a heater housing mounted thereon to form a cavity along the exterior of the pipe and a preformed insulation layer for insulating the pipe and the heater housing. A connecting assembly is used to join the pipe assemblies and form a pipeline. Pull means detachably connected to a heating element facilitates placement of the heating element in the heater housing cavities, and a pulling assembly attached to the heater element permits removal of the heater element after installation of the pipeline.

Method of making preinsulated pipe assembly

Preinsulated pipe assembly and pipeline

A pipe heat transfer assembly adapted to be easily and rapidly installed with unskilled in the field on a pipe to be heated or cooled includes an elongated rigid channel cover member and a separate elongated, preshaped, solid, flexible strip of thermoplastic resin heat transfer material having a first surface preshaped to conform closely to the inner cavity surface of the channel member and a second surface preshaped to conform closely to the shape of the pipe surface on which it is to be mounted. The strip of heat transfer material may be pre-shaped by molding or extruding. An elongated heat transfer element, which may be an electric heating wire or an elongated tube for a heat transfer liquid to flow therethrough, is embedded in the strip during such pre-shaping. Alternatively, a space for reception of the heat transfer element can be formed in the strip during the pre-shaping of the strip and the element subsequently installed in the space. The thermoplastic heat transfer material after preshaping remains solid and flexible without any significant flow within the temperature range of from about 10.degree.F to about 120.degree.F.

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San Marcos, TX, United States of America

Ben C Johnson