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Flexible strip heater
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Inventors: Sorlien, Mark D.;
Assignee: Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company (St. Paul, MN)
Primary Examiner: Mayewsky; Volodymyr Y.
Assistant Examiner:
Attorney, Agent or Firm: Sell; Donald M., Smith; James A., Qualey; Terryl K.
A strip heater for wrapping around and applying heat to elongate generally cylindrical objects has a thin, flexible, elongate fiber reinforced base with a uniform width along the majority of its length, resistance wire insulated within the base across a uniform portion of the width of the base and a flexible insulating layer having a width equal to that of the portion of the base containing the resistance wire and overlying only a portion of one surface of the base. The heater is designed to be wrapped around a cylindrical object, such as a communications cable, with the thicker insulating portions overlying the portions not having the insulating layer and abutting itself in adjacent turns around the object to position the portions of the base containing the resistance wire adjacent each other in the spiral adjacent the object. |
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DETAILED DESCRIPTION I claim: 1.
An electrical strip heater for wrapping in an overlapping spiral around and applying heat to elongate generally cylindrical objects, comprising: a thin, flexible, elongate fiber reinforced base having a uniform width along a majority of its length, resistance wire insulated within said base along the length and across a uniform portion of the width of said base to provide for resistance heating along the length of said base across said uniform portion of its width, and a flexible insulating layer overlying only a portion of one surface of said base and bonded thereto, extending the length of said base parallel to said portion of said base containing said resistance wire and having a width equal to that of said portion of said base containing said resistance wire, said insulating layer having a transverse cross-section that is generally rectangular.
2.
The strip heater of claim 1 wherein said resistance wire is insulated within said base across one half of the width of said base and said insulating layer extends across the width of said base that does not contain said resistance wire.
3.
The strip heater of claim 1 wherein at one end the width of said base is tapered from a narrower width at the end to said uniform width to aid in starting the wrapping of said heater around a generally cylindrical object starting with said one end.
4.
The strip heater of claim 3 wherein at said one end the portion of said base having said insulating layer thereon and the insulating layer thereon are tapered from said narrower width to said uniform width.
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The strip heater of claim 4 wherein said resistance wire is electrically connected to a power cord that exits from said base at the end of said heater opposite said one end.
6.
The strip heater of claim 1 wherein said resistance wire is insulated within said base across the entire width of said base and said insulating layer overlaps a portion of the width of said base and extends beyond one edge of said base.
Description:
FIELD OF THE INVENTION This invention relates to a strip heater for wrapping in a spiral around and applying heat to elongate generally cylindrical objects
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