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US 11,795,649 B2Granted
Apparatus and method for subsea wall insertion
OwnerSteven England, Stefano Gabaldoinventors
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Abstract
A lead for installing a pile into a seabed floor comprising: an elongated body extending longitudinally along a first axis in a first direction from a top end to a bottom end and configured to receive a pile oriented in the first direction; and a lead indexing foot attached to the bottom end of the elongated body and laterally offset with regard to the first axis.
Claims2
A method of driving a pile into a seabed floor adjacent to an existing foundation structure, the method comprising:
- loading the pile onto a lead;
- lowering the lead, carrying the pile and longitudinally oriented in a first direction, toward the seabed floor;
- engaging a lead indexing foot of the lead, laterally offset at a bottom end of the lead, with the existing foundation structure;
- inserting an interlock of the pile, separate from the lead indexing foot of the lead, into an interlock of the existing foundation structure;
- and
- advancing the pile, along the lead, in the first direction into the seabed floor.
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