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US 12,605,780 B2Granted
Cutting apparatus
AssigneeDecom Engineering Ltd
InventorsGreg Conway, Sean Conway
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Abstract
A cutting apparatus (1) configured for The cutting apparatus (1) has a cutting means drive arrangement (100) having at least one cutting means (12) and at least one motive means (43) for providing power to the cutting means (12). The cutting apparatus (1) is configured such that all, some or a part of the cutting means drive arrangement (100) is interchangeable, on site. This enables use of a single cutting apparatus to perform a variety of different cuts and/or to cut a variety of different objects.
Claims20
A cutting apparatus configurable for subsea application, the cutting apparatus comprising:
- a cutting head;
- a main frame having an object engaging end and a non-object engaging end wherein the main frame comprises two spaced apart structural support members defining a structure of the apparatus;
- a clamping means releasably clamp an object to be cut;
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- a cutting means drive arrangement having at least one cutting means and at least one motive means configurable to rotate the at least one cutting means directly via an output shaft of the motive means, the cutting apparatus is configured such that all, some or a part of the cutting means drive arrangement is interchangeable, on site;
- wherein at least one cutting means is removable from the cutting apparatus by opening the clamping means outwardly from the object engaging end, removing the at least one cutting means from the cutting head by removing fastening means and sliding the at least one cutting means between the two spaced apart structural support members and out through the object engaging end.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.