Hydraulic and earth engineering – Subterranean or submarine pipe or cable laying – retrieving,... – With protection or indication of pipe or trench
Patent
1984-06-29
1986-03-04
Taylor, Dennis L.
Hydraulic and earth engineering
Subterranean or submarine pipe or cable laying, retrieving,...
With protection or indication of pipe or trench
242 96, 2541343R, 2541343FT, 324220, 324 67, 405154, 166255, E03B 709
Patent
active
045738297
ABSTRACT:
To assist in locating an underground or otherwise hidden non-electrically-conducting plastic pipe carrying a fluid such as heating gas a tool is provided which comprises a reel of relatively stiff but flexible locator wire, a hermetically-sealing first bushing through which the locator wire passes and a coupler for engaging a pipe exposed to view but coupled to and communicating for fluid flow with the pipe to be located, such coupler being adapted to receive, in snug fashion, said first bushing and including a packing membrane through which said locator wire passes to further assure no loss of fluid from the pipe being located, said locator terminating at its extremity remote from the reel in a guide member having a shape which may be described as suggestive of an oblate spheroid; i.e., it is symmetrical about an axis aligned with the axis of the locator wire and has an equator from which it tapers downwardly in diameter towards two aligned ends; such guide member being inserted through the exposed pipe and into the pipe to be located, wherein it is pushed by means of the stiff locator wire until the terminus of pipe to be located is reached, whereupon appropriate signals are applied to such wire to permit the detection of the location of such wire and the plastic pipe, by appropriate signal sensing equipment. Alternatively, magnetometer detection equipment may be utilized to locate the locator wire.
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Calhoun Wiley C.
Flemming Edgar J.
Haggard Eugene E.
Hartley Richard N.
Keene Terrell M.
Birchard Bruce L.
Taylor Dennis L.
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