Hydraulic and earth engineering – Miscellaneous
Patent
1982-05-17
1983-08-23
Taylor, Dennis L.
Hydraulic and earth engineering
Miscellaneous
180 7A, 180167, 405159, 405172, F02D 1510
Patent
active
044001150
ABSTRACT:
Method and installation for depositing materials on an ocean bed in accordance with a given line in which the autonomous vehicle is displaced on the ocean bed by accurately following said line, whereby the vehicle is provided with a hopper, a ship is moved on the surface of the ocean roughly in accordance with said line, the materials are discharged from this ship towards the hopper and are guided by means of a pipe suspended beneath the ship and whose lower end is not integral with the hopper, wherein the propulsion means of the pipe disposed at the lower end thereof are operated so that the lower end of the pipe is forced to remain above the hopper.
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Biancale Pierre
Corfa Yves-Paul
Lemercier Pierre
Moreau Jean-Pierre
Vertut Jean
Commissariat a l''Energie Atomique
Taylor Dennis L.
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