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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:
Nov. 15, 1983
Filed:
Apr. 27, 1982
Applicant:
Inventors:
Francois Contal, Grenoble, FR;
Bernard Boyer, Sassenage, FR;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F25B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
62222 ; 62331 ; 62374 ;
Abstract
This invention relates to apparatus for temporarily rendering rigid a product of soft material of elongated form such as a rubber tube. In this apparatus, a tube of the product penetrates into a tunnel and issues therefrom after having been cooled by liquid nitrogen vaporized in an exchanger. A part of the nitrogen travels in counterflow and another predetermined part thereof travels in equidirectional flow towards a processing station. The invention is particularly applicable to braiding or winding rubber tubes, but is not limited to this field of use.