Patent ID: 7044166
Filing Date: 2006-05-16
Classification: F16L,Y10T

Abstract:
1. Structure for sealing, from the outside, a leaking puncture wound in the wall of a liquid container, where that wall has an outside surface which is coated with a leakage-inhibiting jacket including a reaction substance which reacts to contact with liquid leaking from the container to form, with such liquid, a flow-blocking coagulant, said structure comprising a patch body having a side including a perimetered patch cavity, selectively securable to the outside surface of such a jacket with said cavity overlying and facing such a wound, and the cavity's perimeter surrounding the wound and disposed adjacent the jacket's outside surface, and a patch pellet contained in said cavity and formed, at least in part, of a reaction substance which, with said patch body secured to the jacket, behaves like the first-mentioned reaction substance in relation to contact with liquid which leaks through the container wound and into said cavity, thus to join with the first-mentioned reaction substance to inhibit liquid leakage through the wound from the container.