The B. F. Goodrich Company

Bernard F Trares

Robinson F Nichols

Norbert A Weisend, Jr

Kevin L Leffel

An inflatable deicer having deicing tubes formed by adjacent rows of stitching between inner and outer plies with a manifold tube intersecting and extending across the deicing tubes. The stitching of the deicing tubes is turned at the edges of the manifold to reinforce the edges of the manifold tube. The deicing tubes are narrow and the inflation pressure is high for a short activation time at relatively long intervals to shed thin ice.

Pneumatic deicer for shedding thin ice

A pneumatic deicer and a method for making such deicer having a plurality of inflatable tubes which are capable of being distended by inflation to break up the accumulation of ice. The tubes are constructed with a nonflowing elastomeric compound leaving a passageway therein after vulcanization of the deicer by external heat.

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Cuyahoga Falls, OH, United States of America

Bernard F Trares