Receptacles – Closures – Floating closure
Patent
1977-10-11
1978-11-21
Price, William
Receptacles
Closures
Floating closure
220226, 220DIG11, B65D 8720
Patent
active
041262433
ABSTRACT:
The improvement in a liquid storage tank having a floating roof, a plurality of shoes adapted to slidably contact the inner side wall of the tank, and means supported by the roof for pressing the shoes against the inner side wall, comprising an elastomeric body composite strip, impermeable to vapor, in the form of an annulus connected at its bottom edge portion by an essentially vapor tight joint to the top circumference of the shoes and its top edge portion in movable sealing contact with the tank inner side wall, said strip in radial vertical cross section being convexly arced when viewed from the roof, and the strip comprising a plurality of flexible resilient elongated stiffeners laterally positioned and embedded in the body of elastomeric material and extending from the bottom of the strip joined to the shoes to ends which terminate substantially short of the top edge of the strip thereby providing a strip having an upper portion more flexible and less stiff than the remainder of the strip body and which can flex 180.degree. during vertical displacement of the shoes in the tank.
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Chicago Bridge & Iron Company
Man-Fu Moy Joseph
Price William
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