Markel Corporation

Warren G Mang

Charles P Marino

Kevin P Kray

James L Giatras

Michael C Needling

George F Pezdirtz

Hoses are provided which are resistant to chemical and thermal attack and which include a polymeric liner having an integral resilient member axially located along its wall. The resilient member includes a tensile strength which is significantly greater than the polymeric material of the liner, so as to minimize the incidence of plastic deformation and kinking during manufacture, installation, and use.

Kink-resistant fuel hose liner

Methods for reinforcing thin-walled, flexible tubing using pressurized fluids which have excellent mechanical integrity, including burst-strength. The methods comprise pressurizing a tubular conduit with pressurized fluid followed by applying reinforcing means to the conduit.

Process for making reinforced, thin-walled tubing

An improved fuel system conduit is disclosed. The fuel system conduits comprise an inner tubular liner and a substantially tubular cover comprising a metal band helically wrapped around said liner for covering and protecting the liner. The helical or spiral wrap allows fuel line flexibility while simultaneously inhibiting kinking. The helical wrap may also be covered by a plastic outer sheath.

Fuel system conduit

Disclosed is a flexible cable assembly for reliably transmitting motion along a predetermined path in high temperature environments. The assembly comprises a flexible tubular conduit, a crosslinked polyethylene tubular liner for the conduit and a core member movably contained within the conduit for transmitting force or torque along the predetermined path. The assembly preferably exhibits a fictional efficiency of at least about 80% over 500,000 cycles of the 200.degree. F. S-test.

Cable assemblies and methods of producing same

An improved process for coating an inert substrate, such as braided glass fiber sleeving and inert substrates of other materials and shapes, wiht a polymeric material such as a polyacrylate, a polyvinyl chloride, a silicone rubber, or a polyfluorocarbon, said method comprising the steps of: formulating an emulsion of the polymerizable material in water or other suitable polar phase; thickening the emulsion through the addition of an inert, finely-divided, particulate, hydrophilic inorganic oxide substance to a viscosity in the range of from about 35,000 to about 500,000 centipoises; applying the thicknened emulsion in the form of a uniform coating of desired thickness to the sleeving or other inert substrate; passing the coated substrate through a microwave energy chamber and subjecting the thickened emulsion coating to microwave energy of a frequency, at a power density, and for a peirod of time sufficient to substantially devolatilize, or dry and coalesce, said emulsion; and subjecting the devolatilized coating to thermal energy at a temperature and for a period of time sufficient to substantially complete polymerization. A braided glass fiber sleeve, or inert substrate of other configuration or material, containing a surface coating of a polymer, such as a polyacrylate, a polyvinyl chloride, a silicone rubber, or a fluoropolymer, such coating having substantially uniformly distributed therethrough very finely-divided particles of a chemically inert, hydrophilic, inorganic oxide, such as fumed silica, precipitated silica or aluminum oxide.

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Haddonfield, NJ, United States of America

Warren G Mang