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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:
Jan. 24, 1984
Filed:
May. 12, 1982
Applicant:
Inventors:
Thomas A Kutnyak, Greenwood, SC (US);
Donald L Johnson, Abbeville, SC (US);
Assignee:
Automation Industries, Inc., Greenwich, CT (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B32B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
156429 ; 156143 ; 156195 ; 156 731 ; 1565801 ; 1565802 ;
Abstract
Flexible tubing formed of a wire helix wrapped helically with plastic tape having overlapping turns fused directly together ultrasonically, with no extraneous adhesive, and with knurling imprinted on the tubing interior, and apparatus and a method for making such tubing wherein a rotating cantilevered mandrel has a knurled anvil band over which overlapping edges of the tape pass to receive fusing vibrations from an adjacent ultrasonic horn.