Systems for leaching liquid waste, particularly waste water. More
particularly, a cylindrical conduit or pipe for use in leaching systems.
Even more particularly, a cylindrical conduit which has apertures/skimmer
tabs created either during the manufacture/forming/extrusion of the
conduit or by punching after the forming of the conduit. Most
particularly, is an apparatus and method for perforating corrugated
plastic pipe or smooth walled plastic pipe while the pipe is in the
process of extrusion. Further and even most particularly, an actuatable
perforator/skimmer tab former which may be timely acutuated to cause the
perforation of the wall of pipe wherein the plastic of the portion being
perforated is semi-molten as, for example during the forming of the pipe
or caused to be made semi-molten after formation of the pipe such as, for
example, by heating of the acuatable perforator/skimmer former thereby
causing the plastic to be rolled rather than cut creating thereby a
perforation and skimmer tab of predetermined and selected geometry and
dimension.