Hydraulic and earth engineering – Subterranean or submarine pipe or cable laying – retrieving,... – By means advancing along terrain and guiding pipe or cable...
Patent
1980-04-09
1982-06-01
Corbin, David H.
Hydraulic and earth engineering
Subterranean or submarine pipe or cable laying, retrieving,...
By means advancing along terrain and guiding pipe or cable...
405179, F16L 102
Patent
active
043325114
ABSTRACT:
An apparatus for simultaneously burying a plurality of cables in a previously excavated trench in a spaced relationship to each other and for protectively surrounding those spaced apart cables with sand comprises a cable supply vehicle from which the plurality of cables is unreeled, a cable guide boom assembly for spatially aligning the cables, a sanding sled that is positioned within the trench for guiding the cables into the desired spatial relationship and for distributing sand to a desired depth around the plurality of cables, a sand supply vehicle for providing a source of sand at a controlled rate of flow to the sanding sled, and a tractor vehicle for pulling both the sand supply vehicle and the sanding sled along the path of the trench.
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Bradley Dennis K.
Brewbaker Harold R.
West Vern W.
Corbin David H.
Hein William E.
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