When was corrugated steel pipe invented?

History

Since 1971, Dub Ross Company, Inc. has manufactured and marketed construction products. Beginning as a riveting operation, we now have production lines for riveted, helical lock-seam, and spiral rib pipe in diameters from 6” through 144”.

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While we have been helping the industry find drainage solutions since 1971, corrugated steel pipe is much older. The corrugated pipe industry came into being in 1896 with a patent granted to City Engineer Stanley Simpson and his sheet metal fabricator friend James H. Watson. Those early pipes were of a bolt-together annular construction. Little did they know that their ingenuity in the development of corrugated steel pipe would revolutionize the industry.

Trends in the construction of highway systems have resulted in an increasing number of corrugated steel pipe storm sewers. Along with this growth came advances in the manufacturing technology of corrugated steel pipe.

Rivited pipe was developed in the 1920’s. The 1960’s brought the developent of helical pipe. Then in the 1980’s, spiral rib pipe was developed to eliminate the co-efficient of roughness caused by the corrugation.

Highway and oilfield contractors continue to look to Dub Ross Company for quality and service they can depend on.

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History

Long before the creation of the industrial bread slicer, Corrugated Steel Pipe was invented in the United States.  Corrugated Steel Pipe was first used for hydraulic cross culverts in the early 1900s.   Since the first culvert application, Corrugated Steel Pipe has been used in many different construction applications. 

Efficiently Engineered for Vertical Applications

Corrugated Steel Pipe is fabricated with a sinusoidal corrugation to provide an increase in the strength of the steel conduit.  Thinner gage steel that is corrugated provides an equivalent pipe stiffness compared to thicker smooth wall steel pipe.  This efficiency of raw materials provides a large cost savings to the end user. Standard pipe corrugation is ½” depth.  Deeper corrugation depths of 1”, 2” and 5.5” have been made to allow for a larger range of pipe diameters, increasing the construction applications for vertical pipe.    

Construction Applications for Vertical Pipes

Vertical applications of Corrugated Steel Pipe include caissons for utility poles in electric transmission lines, bridge and building piers, wind tower foundations, crane enclosures, utility sewer shafts, petroleum cellars (pits), and general concrete forms.

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Above left: 144” diameter HEL-COR® 5 x 1 Corrugated Steel Pipe used as a crane tower enclosure during the construction of a parking garage in an urban area.  Above right:  132” diameter HEL-COR® 5 x 1 Corrugated Steel Pipe used for a sewer shaft during pipe tunneling of a new sewer line in an urban area.