Apparatus, system and method for using a diamond-impregnated wire to cut an object
AssigneeMactech, Inc.
InventorsSteve SHAE, Joel Kent Wittenbraker
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Abstract
An apparatus, a system and a method may use a diamond-impregnated wire loop to cut an underwater pipeline. The apparatus may have a frame, a carriage attached to the frame and/or pulleys connected to the carriage. The diamond-impregnated wire loop may be connected to the pulleys. The carriage may move relative to the frame to direct the diamond-impregnated wire loop in a forward direction relative to the frame and/or through the pipeline.
Claims10
A method for cutting an object using a carriage connected to a frame wherein pulleys are connected to the carriage and further wherein a diamond-impregnated wire is connected to the pulleys wherein the carriage has a first end and a second end located in a position opposite to the first end and further wherein the frame has a first end and a second end located in a position opposite to the first end, the method comprising the steps of:
- moving the carriage from a first position relative to the frame to a second position relative to the frame wherein the first end of the carriage is adjacent to the first end of the frame if the carriage is located in the first position and further wherein moving the carriage from the first position to the second position moves the first end of the carriage in a first direction wherein the second end of the carriage is adjacent to the second end of the frame if the carriage is located in the first position and further wherein moving the carriage from the first position to the second position moves the second end of the carriage in a second direction;
- cutting the object wherein the object is cut by the diamond-impregnated wire as the carriage moves from the first position relative to the frame to the second position relative to the frame;
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- moving the carriage from the second position to the first position.
A system for cutting an object, the system comprising:
- a frame;
- a carriage connected to the frame wherein the carriage moves from a first position relative to the frame to a second position relative to the frame and further wherein the carriage is substantially parallel to the frame if the carriage is in the first position wherein the carriage is angled relative to the frame if the carriage is in the second position;
- pulleys connected to the carriage;
- a wire attached to the pulleys wherein the wire travels through the pulleys;
- diamond beads attached to the wire;
- a first clamp having a first end and a second end located in a position opposite to the first end wherein the first end of the first clamp is connected to the frame;
- a second clamp connected to the frame having a first end and a second end located in a position opposite to the first end wherein the first end of the second clamp is connected to the frame;
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- a rod connected to the first clamp and the second clamp wherein the rod rotates in a first direction to pivot the second end of the first clamp and the second end of the second clamp toward each other and further wherein the rod rotates in a second direction opposite to the first direction to pivot the second end of the first clamp and the second end of the second clamp away from each other.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.