Yazaki Industrial Chemical Co., Ltd.

Haruo Fujita

Tatsuo Matsumoto

Toshio Shibamiya

Mituo Abe

There are provided a method and a facility for separating and recovering a steel pipe and a covering resin in a resin-covered steel pipe, which do not produce cuttings of the steel pipe and which make it possible to continuously operate the facility. The method comprises the steps of using a cut line forming means installed forwardly of the position that a high frequency induction coil passes, so as to form a cut line extending from the surface of the resin-covered steel pipe toward the steel pipe, deep enough to reach the surface of the steel pipe from the surface of the covering resin, throughout the length of the resin-covered steel pipe, circumferentially dividing the covering resin into at least two parts, heating the steel pipe by high frequency induction heating, in the position of a separating device disposed at a suitable position immediately after the passage of the position of the high frequency induction coil, to the extent the boundary between the covering resin and the steel pipe assumes the state for the release of the covering resin from the steel pipe, and cutting each covering resin into at least two parts along the cut line and toward the outside of the steel pipe by the separating device while releasing and separating it from the steel pipe.

Method and facility for separating and recovering steel pipe and covering resin in resin-covered steel pipe

This invention relates to (1) the equipment for removing easily a resin joint from the pipe having the resin joint adhered and fitted thereto at or near its one end or for removing a resin joint from the pipe having the resin joint adhered and fitted thereto at the middle point of the pipe; and (2) the equipment for removing easily a resin joint or resin ribs from the pipe having the resin joint adhered and fitted thereto and covered with resin ribs, in a manner capable of recovering each of the pipe and the resin separately.

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Haruo Fujita