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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 02, 1978
Filed:
Jan. 14, 1977
Lionel H Wheeler, Houston, TX (US);
CRC-Crose International, Inc., Houston, TX (US);
Abstract
A pipe bending mandrel having a housing assembly of a plurality of interconnected, axially aligned segmented housing subassemblies, each of which has an internal taper, a plurality of spherical members spaced along a tension member and adapted to coact with the internal housing tapers, a plurality of axially extending flexible strips connected to the housing segments, and an actuator connected to the spherical members and the housings to move the spherical members into the internal housing tapers to expand the housings into pipe supporting position within a pipe to be bent. Suitable wheels are provided for moving the mandrel into, through and out of the pipe.