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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 11, 2024
Filed:
May. 27, 2021
Zeus Industrial Products, Inc., Orangeburg, SC (US);
Cameron Hunter, Saint Matthews, SC (US);
John Richard Campanelli, West Columbia, SC (US);
Zeus Company LLC, Orangeburg, SC (US);
Abstract
The present disclosure provides a dual layer heat shrink tube having: an inner polymeric layer with a thickness tand an outer diameter D; and an outer, expanded polymeric layer with a thickness t' and an outer diameter D′ obtained by expanding a polymer tube from Dto D′ and tto t′ at a selected temperature so that D′−2(′)>D, wherein a ring cut from a cross-section of the dual layer heat shrink tube, slit into a rectangle and gripped at cut ends by tension grips within a DMA, and subjected to a temperature sweep of 3° C./min at a frequency of 1 Hz from the onset of a melting endotherm of the inner polymeric layer to that of the outer, expanded polymeric layer is greater than 1° C. and less than 12° C. The disclosure further provides associated methods for preparing and using such tubes, as well as to products comprising such tubes.