Hydraulic and earth engineering – Marine structure or fabrication thereof
Patent
1978-06-23
1980-04-22
Taylor, Dennis L.
Hydraulic and earth engineering
Marine structure or fabrication thereof
405203, 405204, E02B 100, E02B 1700
Patent
active
041992750
ABSTRACT:
A device for coupling and uncoupling an emerging articulated column to or from its base installed on the bottom of a body of water, the said column and the said base being provided with piping portions, wherein quick operated connecting-disconnecting means are provided for rapidly interconnecting corresponding portions of the said base pipings and column pipings, respectively, connectable and disconnectable concomitantly with the use or operation of the means of connection and disconnection of the said column to or from the said base.
According to one aspect of the invention, the column is provided with a connecting pedestal substantially cylindrical in shape and adapted to be fitted into an annular socket of the pedestal, and the bundle of pipes pertaining to the column can be connected by screwing to corresponding piping portions converging towards the center of the socket.
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Entreprise d'Equipements Mecaniques et Hydrauliques (E.M.H.)
Taylor Dennis L.
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