EP0447480B1 - Appareil et procede permettant d'eliminer l'amiante - Google Patents

Appareil et procede permettant d'eliminer l'amiante Download PDF

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EP0447480B1
EP0447480B1 EP90900921A EP90900921A EP0447480B1 EP 0447480 B1 EP0447480 B1 EP 0447480B1 EP 90900921 A EP90900921 A EP 90900921A EP 90900921 A EP90900921 A EP 90900921A EP 0447480 B1 EP0447480 B1 EP 0447480B1
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B08—CLEANING
    • B08B—CLEANING IN GENERAL; PREVENTION OF FOULING IN GENERAL
    • B08B15/00—Preventing escape of dirt or fumes from the area where they are produced; Collecting or removing dirt or fumes from that area
    • B08B15/02—Preventing escape of dirt or fumes from the area where they are produced; Collecting or removing dirt or fumes from that area using chambers or hoods covering the area
    • B08B15/026—Boxes for removal of dirt, e.g. for cleaning brakes, glove- boxes

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  • This invention relates to apparatus for use in and a method of removing asbestos or other harmful material from pipes or other elongate members (hereinafter for convenience referred to only as pipes).
  • Asbestos stripping normally takes place in sealed enclosures erected around the surface to be stripped and in which an operative works. Very often small jobs do not warrant the time involved in erecting such an enclosure and in these circumstances it is known to mount a small plastics bag on an area of a pipe to be stripped, the bag having sleeve portions which can be closed around the pipe and a body portion integral with and depending from the sleeve portions.
  • these bags suffer from the drawback that they rest on the pipe and become contaminated with asbestos dust so that it is impossible to clean off the pipe when the asbestos lagging has been removed. Also, it is not possible to reduce the interior of the bags to a sub-atmospheric pressure as to do so would cause the bag to cling to the pipe.
  • apparatus for use in removing asbestos or other harmful material from pipes comprising a flexible bag, which is made at least in part of transparent plastics material and which can be mounted on a pipe, and a cage for supporting the bag clear of an area of the pipe to be stripped, the cage being made of a plurality of parts which are releasably connected together so that they can assembled about the pipe, wherein the bag has two sleeve portions which can be sealed to the pipe in spaced relationship with respect to one another and an openable seam extending along and between the two sleeve portions and the cage itself includes support means by which the cage can be supported by the pipe from which asbestos or other harmful material is to be removed.
  • the seam is closable by sliding clasp fastener means.
  • the bag is provided on its external surface with means for attaching the bag to the cage.
  • Such means may be in the form of tags which together with the bag define sleeves for receiving individual parts of the cage.
  • the bag has two hand receiving pockets which may be in the shape of gauntlets and which allow an operative access to an area of the pipe within the bag.
  • the bag may also have a vacuum connector for connecting a source of negative pressure to the interior of the bag and/or a water supply connector enabling water to be sprayed on asbestos lagging on the pipe.
  • a method of removing asbestos or other harmful material from pipes using apparatus comprising the steps of mounting the flexible bag on the pipe, assembling the cage on the pipe and fixing the bag to the cage, sealing the bag to the pipe, and stripping asbestos or other harmful materials from the pipe using one or more tools contained within the bag.
  • the interior of the bag is connected to a source of negative pressure during the stripping operation.
  • the asbestos is wetted prior to being stripped from the pipe.
  • the apparatus shown therein comprises a flexible bag 10 made of transparent plastics material, e.g. polyethylene, and a cage 11 for supporting the bag 10 clear of an area of a pipe 12 to be stripped.
  • a flexible bag 10 made of transparent plastics material, e.g. polyethylene
  • a cage 11 for supporting the bag 10 clear of an area of a pipe 12 to be stripped.
  • the bag 10 comprises a body portion 10 a and two sleeves 10 b separated from one another by the body portion 10 a .
  • An openable seam 13 extends along the length of each sleeve 10 b and between the sleeves along the top of the body portion 10 a .
  • the seam 13 is closed by an air-tight (or substantially air-tight) plastics sliding clasp fastener 14.
  • Tags 15 are attached to the external surface of the bag 10 and the tags 15 together with the plastics material of the bag define sleeves 16 for receiving parts of the cage 11.
  • the bag 10 also has two hand receivable pockets 17, which extend into the bag 10 and which are preferably in the shape of gauntlets as shown in Figure 4, a vacuum connector 18, and a water supply connector 19, all welded to the bag.
  • the cage 11 comprises a plurality of rigid tubes, which may be box-section tubes 20, and a plurality of connectors 21, 22, 23 and 24 (see Figures 3 a to 3 d ).
  • the cage 11 is made up of three rectangular frame sections 11 a , 11 b and 11 c spaced apart in the direction of the longitudinal extent of the pipe 12 and joined one to another by four tubes 20.
  • the central frame section 11 b is itself made up of four tubes 20 joined together at the four corners of the frame by connectors 21 (see Figure 3 a ) having a body part 21 a and four projections 21 b - 21 e , the projections 21 b and 21 c being push-fitted in the ends of two tubes 20 of the frame section 11 b and the projections 21 d and 21 e being push-fitted in the ends of two tubes 20 connected respectively to the frame sections 11 a and 11 c .
  • the frame sections 11 a and 11 c are each made up of four outer tubes 20 which are joined together at the corners by connectors 22 (see Figure 3 b ) having a body part 22 a and three projections 22 b - 22 d , and two short inner tubes 20.
  • the inner tubes 20 extend between respective connectors 24 (see Figure 3 d ) on the two vertical outer tubes 20 and the connector 23 (see Figure 3 c ) on the uppermost outer horizontal tube 20, to provide within the upper end of the rectangular frame section an inverted V-shaped support 25 which rests on the pipe 12 to support the uppermost tube 20 clear of the pipe 12.
  • the connectors 23 and 24 each include a sleeve 23 a and 24 a , respectively which is slidable over an outer tube 20, and connector 23 has two projections 23 b and 23 c which are push-fitted in ends of the two inner short tubes 20, whereas each connector 24 has a single projection 24 b which is push-fitted in the other end of a respective short inner tube 20.
  • the bag 10 When it is desired to strip insulation from an area of a pipe 12, the bag 10 is mounted on the pipe from below and the seam 13 is closed by the sliding clasp fastener 14. The sleeves 10 b are then each folded over and sealed to the pipe 12 by tape 26.
  • the cage After mounting the bag 10 on the pipe 12, the cage is assembled and during assembly many of the tubes 20 are passed through respective sleeves 16 on the bag 10 so that the body portion 10 a of the bag 10 is supported by the cage 11 clear of the pipe 12.
  • a source of negative pressure e.g. an "H" type vacuum cleaner or vacuum interceptor is connected to the connector 18.
  • the asbestos cladding on the pipe 12 is then removed using one or more tools (not shown) contained within the bag 10, access to the tools being gained by the hands of an operative being placed in the hand receiving pockets or gauntlets 17.
  • a water jet can be connected to the connector 19.
  • the bag 10 and cage 11 can be of any desired size to suit the dimensions of a pipe or other elongate member to be stripped and can be used to remove not only asbestos but also other harmful materials.
  • the apparatus can be used to strip vertical as well as horizontal pipes, but in this case it is desirable to provide an additional hand receivable pocket in the bag 10 on the side thereof opposite to the pockets 17.
  • the apparatus may also be used to strip T-junction pipes as shown in Figure 2 and in this case the bag 10' must be provided with a third sleeve 10 c which is joined to each sleeve 10 b by an openable seam. Also, in this case the cage 11' is of T-shaped construction and the bag 10' has two pairs of hand receivable pockets 17 a and 17 b , respectively.
  • the bag 10, 10' need be transparent; it could instead just have one or more transparent windows so that an operative can see to strip the asbestos from the pipe.
  • a main part of the bag could for example be of "Valeron", a very strong, but not optically transparent, plastics material available from Van Leer Flexibles Ltd., of Poole, Dorset, England, and the transparent window or windows could be of polyethylene.
  • the slidable clasp fastener could be replaced by any other appropriate fastener, such as a hook and eye fastener of the type sold under the name "Velcro" (RTM).

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  • Processing Of Solid Wastes (AREA)
  • Cleaning In General (AREA)
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  • Electrical Discharge Machining, Electrochemical Machining, And Combined Machining (AREA)

Claims (11)

  1. Dispositif pour enlever de l'asbeste ou une autre matière nuisible de conduites (12), comprenant un sac (10) flexible, fait au moins partiellement de matière synthétique transparente et pouvant être monté sur une conduite, et une cage (11) pour porter le sac librement sur une zone de conduite à dépouiller, ladite cage étant formée de plusieurs éléments connectés ensemble de façon amovible de sorte qu'ils peuvent être assemblés autour de la conduite, caractérisé en ce que le sac a deux parties (10a,10b) en forme de boyau qui peuvent être étanchéifiées par rapport à la conduite à une certaine distance l'une de l'autre et un joint (13) pouvant être ouvert et s'étendant le long et entre les deux parties de boyaux et que la cage elle-même comprend des moyens de support (25) à l'aide desquels la cage peut être portée par la conduite de laquelle l'asbeste ou une autre matière nuisible doit être enlevée.
  2. Dispositif selon la revendication 1, dans lequel ledit joint peut être fermé à l'aide d'un moyen de fermeture à fermoir coulissant (14).
  3. Dispositif selon la revendication 1 ou 2, dans lequel ledit sac est pourvu sur sa surface extérieure d'un moyen pour fixer ledit sac à la cage.
  4. Dispositif selon la revendication 3, dans lequel ledit moyen de fixation comprend des oeillets (15) qui définissent ensemble avec le sac des boyaux (16) pour recevoir des parties individuelles de la cage.
  5. Dispositif selon une quelconque des revendications 1 à 4, dans lequel ledit sac a deux poches (17) pour recevoir une main qui permettent un accès opérationel à une zone de la conduite dans le sac.
  6. Dispositif selon la revendication 5, dans lequel les poches ont la forme de gants.
  7. Dispositif selon une des revendications 1 à 6, dans lequel le sac a un connecteur de vide (18) pour connecter une source de pression négative à l'intérieur du sac.
  8. Dispositif selon une des revendications 1 à 7, dans lequel le sac a un connecteur d'alimentation d'eau (19) permettant d'arroser d'eau l'asbeste entourant la conduite.
  9. Procédé pour enlever l'asbeste ou une autre matière nuisible de tuyaux en utilisant un dispositif gelon une quelconque des revendications précédentes, comprenant les étapes de monter un sac flexible sur la conduite, d'assembler la cage sur la conduite et de fixer le sac à la cage, d'étanchéifier le sac par rapport à la conduite et d'enlever l'asbeste ou autre matière nuisible de la conduite an utilisant un ou plusieurs outils contenus dans le sac.
  10. Procédé selon la revendication 9, dans lequel l'intérieur du sac est connecté à une source de pression négative pendant l'opération d' enlèvement.
  11. Procédé selon la revendication 9 ou 10, dans lequel l'asbeste est humidifié avant d'être enlevé de la conduite.
EP90900921A 1988-12-08 1989-12-05 Appareil et procede permettant d'eliminer l'amiante Expired - Lifetime EP0447480B1 (fr)

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