Patent ID: 9737900
Date: 2017-08-22
CPC Classifications: B05B,B05D,F16L

Claim:
1. An in-situ applicator for applying a composition in a pipe, the applicator comprising: a flow diverter configured to receive the composition and eject the composition from at least one outlet; and a hollow conical body having a first end, a second end, and an interior surface configured to receive the composition ejected from the flow diverter, wherein the diameter of the second end is greater than the diameter of the first end, the conical body also having a plurality of holes, the plurality of holes forming a band that wraps circumferentially around the conical body and defines a flow region on the interior surface between the band and the first end, the band includes first holes adjacent to the flow region where each of the first holes has a first average diameter and second holes disposed between the first holes and the second end, each of the second holes having an average diameter greater than the first diameter, the flow region being devoid of holes and having a first, second, third, and fourth inclined side where proximate ends of the first and second sides converge toward the first end and proximate ends of the third and fourth sides converge toward the first end in a mirror image of the proximate ends of the first and second sides.