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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 23, 2001
Filed:
Mar. 24, 2000
Applicant:
Inventor:
Karl-Heinz Ahrweiler, Willich, DE;
Assignee:
Eduard Kusters MaschinenFabrik GmbH & Co. KG, Krefeld, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F16L 5/504 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
F16L 5/504 ;
Abstract
A tubular element (,) which is inserted into a liquid-conducting conduit (,) includes an annular chamber (,) that is delimited radially towards the inside by a tubing section (,) made of a material with an elastically flexible surface. The tubular element (,) serves as a flexible damping conduit section, or, if the annular chamber (,) is connected with a partial vacuum chamber at a connector (,), and the tubing section (,) is inflated into the annular chamber (,), as a means for temporarily holding an amount of liquid, for example in order to withdraw a dye bath from the exit slit of an application device for dyeing textile webs.