Sealing ring positioning device
AssigneePetroleo Brasileiro S.A. - Petrobras
InventorANDRE LUIZ BEVILAQUA SANTANA
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Abstract
A sealing ring positioning device that, operated by a remotely operated vehicle (ROV), allows sealing rings to be installed, in the subsea environment, in a groove of a flange of a first pipeline to be interconnected to a second pipeline. The sealing ring positioning device is provided with an upper portion that is presented as a handle by which the ROV handles the device in a subsea environment, a lower portion having a semicircle shape and configured to hold the sealing ring to be arranged in the flange groove in a subsea environment, and a middle portion including a groove holding a magnet that is configured to hold the device firmly positioned in the pipeline in a subsea environment, during the arrangement of the ring in the groove of the flange.
Claims9
A sealing ring positioning device, comprising a lower portion having a semicircle shape, and a middle portion comprising a magnet, the magnet arranged in a laterally displaced position in relation to the lower portion, wherein the sealing ring positioning device is configured to install a sealing ring on a flange of a pipeline.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.