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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 06, 1976
Filed:
Apr. 22, 1974
James E Bilbro, San Marcos, TX (US);
Ben C Johnson, San Marcos, TX (US);
Thermon Manufacturing Company, San Marcos, TX (US);
Abstract
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.