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US 2006/0076351 A1Published application
Full contact floating roof
AssigneeHMT, Inc.
InventorsRichard King, John Oleyar, David Bretherton
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Abstract
A device and method of making a full contact floating roof for use in covering fluid bodies, such as storage tanks containing hydrocarbon fluids, allowing ease of construction, high integrity, and low maintenance cost.
Claims11
A method of making a full contact floating roof having a top, a bottom, and a perimeter, comprising
- forming a linkage between a plurality of selectively interlinkable fiber reinforced plastic buoyant cells, each cell comprising an interior and an exterior, and wherein said linkage is essentially impermeable to hydrocarbon fluids and vapors.
A full contact floating roof having a top, a bottom, and a perimeter, comprising
- a plurality of selectively interlinkable buoyant cells, comprising an interior and an exterior,
- a linkage between at least two of said cells, wherein said linkage and said cells are essentially impermeable to hydrocarbon fluids and vapors, and
- wherein said buoyant cells are essentially square-angle parallelepipeds.
A method of making a full contact floating roof having a top, a bottom, and a perimeter, comprising
- forming a linkage between a plurality of selectively interlinkable fiber reinforced plastic buoyant cells, each cell comprising an interior and an exterior, wherein said linkage is essentially impermeable to hydrocarbon fluids and vapors,
- forming said buoyant cells by extrusion in the form of essentially square-angle parallelipipeds
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