Method of Single Line Mooring
AssigneeReel Power Licensing Corp.
InventorsBenton Frederick Baugh, Michael Leroy Spence
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Abstract
The method of mooring buoyant equipment at the surface of a body of water in a controlled position using a single line by connecting a first line from the buoyant equipment to a first diameter drum on a subsea mooring tower, connecting the first diameter drum to a second diameter drum, connecting a second line from the second diameter drum to a weight, such that when the depth of the body of water changes the tension on the first line remains the same and the vertical distance travelled by the weight is less than the change in the depth of the body of water.
Claims12
The method of mooring buoyant equipment at the surface of a body of water within a controlled watch circle for a given depth range, maximum current, and wind speed using a single line, comprising
- connecting a first line from said buoyant equipment to a guided weight in a subsea mooring tower,
- such that when the depth of said body of water changes within said given depth range the tension on said first line remains the same.
The method of mooring buoyant equipment at the surface of a body of water in a controlled position using a single line, comprising
- connecting a first line from said buoyant equipment to a first diameter drum on a subsea mooring tower,
- connecting said first diameter drum to a second diameter drum,
- connecting a second line from said second diameter drum to a weight,
- such that when the depth of said body of water changes the tension on said first line remains the same and the vertical distance travelled by said weight is less than the change in the depth of said body of water.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.