Receptacles – Closures – Floating closure
Patent
1976-05-28
1977-04-19
Lowrance, George L.
Receptacles
Closures
Floating closure
220222, 361215, B65D 8720
Patent
active
040183564
ABSTRACT:
The disclosure herein describes a floating deck for use in a liquid storage tank, which comprises a generally circular planar platform formed of a plurality of interconnected modular units made of cellular foam plastic; the modular units are of different shape and include at least: a first series of panels, each being in the form of a truncated triangle and a second series of panels, each having a shape that includes at least a parallelogram portion and a small triangular shaped portion outwardly projecting from one side of the parallelogram portion at the upper end thereof; the triangular-shaped portion has a dimension which corresponds to the truncated portion of the triangle of the first series of panels so as to form a continuous platform when both series of panels are interconnected to one another. Other shapes of panels are also disclosed.
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Popular Mechanics, vol. 111, No. 3, Mar. 1959, p. 274, "`Floating Roof` Roof in Tank Reduces Vapor Losses."
Sandborn Edmund B.
Szasz I. Emery
Lowrance George L.
Marcus Stephen
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