Hydraulic and earth engineering – Marine structure or fabrication thereof – Storage container
Patent
1983-10-03
1987-02-24
Taylor, Dennis L.
Hydraulic and earth engineering
Marine structure or fabrication thereof
Storage container
52 81, 220 71, 405195, B65G 500, E02D 2900
Patent
active
046453792
ABSTRACT:
An underwater storage structure comprising an internally segmented tetrahedron and/or hexahedron, said self supporting structure having a fluid impermeable covering and an internally segmented skeleton. The structure can be subdivided internally by fluid impermeable coverings allowing ballast, such as water or sand slurry or the like, to be utilized to counter the bouyancy of internal voids formed by the subdivisions of the structure.
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Gawel Len J.
Grimsley R. LeRoy
Conoco Inc.
Schupbach Cortlan R.
Taylor Dennis L.
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