US 12,280,963 B2
Continuous pipe feeder machine which avoids clamping against welded joints of a pipe
Vasily Anischenko, Lake Zurich, IL (US)
Assigned to UNIVERSAL HDD, Lake Zurich, IL (US)
Filed by Vasily Anischenko, Lake Zurich, IL (US)
Filed on May 19, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/199,715.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/344,558, filed on May 21, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0406645 A1, Dec. 21, 2023
Int. Cl. F16L 1/20 (2006.01); B65G 15/10 (2006.01); B65G 15/16 (2006.01); B65G 43/08 (2006.01); F16L 1/032 (2006.01); F16L 1/036 (2006.01)
CPC B65G 43/08 (2013.01) [F16L 1/032 (2013.01); F16L 1/036 (2013.01); F16L 1/207 (2013.01); B65G 2201/0276 (2013.01); B65G 2203/0208 (2013.01); B65G 2203/042 (2013.01)] 7 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A pipe feeder machine for moving a pipe comprising:
a housing having a frame wherein the frame has a front, a back, a first side, a second side, a top, a bottom and an interior;
a passageway extending completely through the interior of the frame of the housing wherein the passageway receives a pipe;
at least one track within the interior of the frame wherein the track has a pad and wherein the pad rotates around the track;
wherein the pad has a length when laid out in a flat orientation;
a rotary element for rotating the pad around the track; and
and wherein a length of the pad in the flat orientation is identical to a length of the entire pipe.