Ships – Mooring device – Boom type
Patent
1977-03-17
1978-12-19
Blix, Trygve M.
Ships
Mooring device
Boom type
9 8P, B63B 2100
Patent
active
041300769
ABSTRACT:
A single point mooring apparatus for loading a tanker from a sub-sea source including surface and submerged flotation chambers connected by a hollow mooring line which has its lower end releasably connected to a permanent pile anchor in the ocean bottom. Flexible flowlines are connected to the surface buoy for transferring fluids to the ship and a ship mooring hawser is connected from below the surface for securing the ship to the mooring apparatus.
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patent: 3321217 (1967-05-01), Ahlstone
patent: 3557396 (1971-01-01), Rupp
patent: 3641602 (1972-02-01), Flory et al.
patent: 3894567 (1975-07-01), Mott et al.
Flory; J. F., Mascenik; J., & Pedersen; K. I. The Single Anchor Leg Mooring, Exxon Research and Engineering Company, P.O. Box 55, Linden, N.J. 07036, Jul. 1975.
Basinger Sherman D.
Blix Trygve M.
Vetco Inc.
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