Receptacles – Closures – Floating closure
Patent
1992-07-29
1994-04-12
Shoap, Allan N.
Receptacles
Closures
Floating closure
220216, 220222, B65D 8842
Patent
active
053018281
ABSTRACT:
The space between the inner wall of a petroleum or hydrocarbon tank or similar storage tank and a floating roof therein is sealed by both a primary seal and a secondary seal. The secondary seal, which has no elastomeric parts subject to rapid deterioration, includes a flexible vapor barrier fabric having a first edge coupled to the floating roof and an opposite second edge. The secondary seal further includes a plurality of plates disposed above the vapor barrier fabric and having lower ends coupled to the floating roof and opposite upper ends coupled to a metal shoe disposed against the inner tank wall and having the second edge of the vapor barrier fabric coupled thereto. The length of each metal plate between upper and lower edges thereof is adjustable by virtue of the plate being comprised of overlapping upper and lower plates joined by bolts in elongated apertures therein. The shoe is flexibly coupled to the upper edges of the plates by bolts disposed within dimpled holes in the shoe and in the upper edges of the plates.
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Caretto Vanessa
HMT Inc.
Shoap Allan N.
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