Hydraulic and earth engineering – Marine structure or fabrication thereof
Patent
1997-05-09
1999-11-16
Taylor, Dennis L.
Hydraulic and earth engineering
Marine structure or fabrication thereof
114243, 166359, 405224, 405211, E02B 1138, E21B 712, F15D 110
Patent
active
059845848
ABSTRACT:
A fairing system is disclosed for protecting multiple, parallel, bundled but separate cylindrical elements deployed in offshore applications. The fairing system deploys a plurality of elongated fairing surface elements foldable about an axis with a connection system joining the elongated edges of the fairing surface elements in a folded manner about the axis. A plurality of thrust bearings are orthogonally connected across the fairing surface elements at each axial end and an axially extending circular rotational surface is defined by the interior of each of the folded fairing surface elements and a transverse edge of the thrust bearings connected thereto. This rotational surface has a diameter which circumscribes the multiple bundled cylindrical elements. A plurality of clamps interconnect the bundled, cylindrical elements and a bearing collar on the axial ends of the clamps is provided to receive the thrust bearings of the axial ends of the fairing elements.
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Denison Early Baggett
McDaniel Richard Bruce
McMillan David Wayne
Shell Oil Company
Smith Mark A.
Taylor Dennis L.
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