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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 01, 1998
Filed:
Dec. 20, 1996
John Joseph Dodds, Westmoreland County, Penn Township, PA (US);
Robroy Industries, Verona, PA (US);
Abstract
A method of coating a conduit outlet fitting is disclosed. In the method, a tooling plate is positioned between a cover and a body of the conduit outlet fitting. The tooling plate has a hanger tooling block and a plug tooling block affixed thereto and positioned inside the body when the tooling plate is positioned between the body and the cover. A hanger is passed through a conduit opening and attached to the hanger tooling block. A plug is passed through another conduit opening and attached to the plug tooling block. The hanger and the plug each have a cap disposed thereon for covering an external end of their respective conduit openings. The assembled structure is suspended from the hanger and dipped into a liquid protective coating material to form an external coating thereon. The cover, the body and the tooling plate cooperate to form complementary male and female seals on the cover and the body. The dip coated structure is removed from the coating material and cured. The coating material around the tooling plate and beyond the caps on the hanger and plug are removed and the dip coated cover is removed from the body, and the tooling plate, hanger, plug and tooling blocks are removed from the dip coated body.