Mooring terminal with top mounted fluid swivel

Details Mooring terminal with top mounted fluid swivel Mooring terminal with top mounted fluid swivel

1979-08-30

1982-01-19

Blix, Trygve M.

B63B 2152

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043109373

ABSTRACT:
A mooring and cargo transfer terminal is described, of the type which includes a buoy held at a predetermined height above the seabed as by a single anchor leg, to moor a ship which can drift in rotation about the buoy while a floating hose structure carries fluid to or from the ship, wherein the terminal is constructed to protect the buoy end of the floating hose structure from wave action, while facilitating maintenance of the fluid swivel which connects a nonrotating conduit extending up from the seabed to a rotating conduit connected to the floating hose structure. The fluid swivel is mounted at the top of the buoy for easy maintenance, and a rotating pipe connected to the rotating portion of the swivel extends therefrom and downwardly to an underwater depth below the troughs of waves, so that the buoy end of the floating hose structure is always below the waves.

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patent: 3666395 (1972-05-01), Kubasta
patent: 3735435 (1973-05-01), Mikulicic et al.
patent: 3894567 (1975-07-01), Mott et al.

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