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Apparatus for installing a liner in a pipe by reducing the diameter of an elongated tube of lining material, to allow it to be positioned within the pipe, heating the tube of lining material to soften it, and expanding the tube of lining material within the pipe to form a liner, includes a plurality of disk-shaped expanders for engaging the tube of lining material from the inside, and expanding the lining material to form a liner, an elongated body member for holding the disk-shaped expander in a spaced apart at least generally parallel orientation, and bypass means for conducting a heated fluid past the disk-shaped expanders from a first end of the apparatus to a second end. A method for installing a pipe liner in a pipe includes the steps of reducing the diameter of the liner, so that it can be positioned within the pipe, installing the liner in the pipe, enlarging an upstread end of the liner, disposing a liner expander within the upstream end of the liner, pressurizing the upstream end of the liner with a heated fluid, the temperature of the heated fluid being sufficient to soften the liner, and the pressure of the heated fluid being sufficient to propel the liner expander from the upstream end of the liner to a downstream end, providing means associated with the liner expander for allowing a portion of the heated fluid to bypass the liner expander for heating and softening the liner ahead of the expander, as the expander is propelled by steam pressure from the upstream end of the liner to the downstream end of the liner, while maintaining a propelling pressure upstream of the expander, retaining the expander at least partially within the liner at the downstream end, for pressuring substantially the entire length of the liner, and reducing the temperature of the pressurizing fluid to cool the liner below the softening temperature, to allow it to stiffen and form a liner within the pipe.
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