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 Bevel pipe winding method and product

Details
Inventors: Kao, Paul W.; Lamborn, Homer C.;
Assignee: United States Pipe and Foundry Company (Birmingham, AL)
Primary Examiner: Queisser; Richard C.
Assistant Examiner: Gorenstein; Charles
Attorney, Agent or Firm: Lyon & Lyon

In the manufacture of prestressed concrete pipe, wire is wound under tension around the concrete body of the pipe and secured thereto. In accomplishing this the concrete pipe is mounted on a turntable for rotation about the longitudinal axis of the pipe and wire under tension is wrapped thereon in a helical fashion from one end to the other.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION What is claimed is: 1.
A prestressed concrete article comprising a substantially cylindrical body of concrete having a beveled end forming a pipe body having a short side and a long side substantially 180.
degree.
displaced from said short side, and a wrapping of wire under tension around said body substantially from one end to the other of the body, said wrapping having a uniform spacing all along said short side of said body and a different but uniform spacing all along said long side of said body.
2.
A method of applying wire under tension to the periphery of a concrete body in the manufacture of concrete pipe or the like wherein the concrete body has a beveled end with a bevel offset thereby forming a pipe body having a short side and a long side substantially 180.
degree.
displaced from the short side, comprising the steps of determining a bevel ratio for a pipe body, said bevel ratio being proportional to said bevel offset divided by the pipe body length, securing wire near a first end of said pipe body which is remote from said beveled end, and wrapping said pipe body with said wire under tension while causing periodic deviation of said wire wrapping as a function of said bevel ratio to provide a modified helical wrapping on said pipe body having a uniform spacing along the entire length of a first side of said pipe body and a different but uniform spacing along the entire length of a second side of said pipe body substantially 180.
degree.
from the first side.
3.
A method as in claim 2 wherein said deviation of said wire is substantially zero as said wire is applied to the long side of said pipe body and said deviation is greater than zero and progressively increases as the wire is applied to the short side of said pipe body from said first end of said pipe body toward the beveled end of said pipe body.
4.
A method of applying wire under tension to the periphery of a concrete body in the manufacture of concrete pipe or the like wherein the concrete body has a beveled end with a bevel offset thereby forming a pipe body having a short side and a long side substantially 180



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