Rapid Separation Conduit
AssigneesKinetic Pressure Control Ltd., Hess Corporation
InventorsSteven A. Angstmann, Myles Barret
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Abstract
A rapidly separable conduit includes a pair of linked coupling members forming a fluid conduit with a primary through bore. The coupling members are each configured with passages to form secondary through bores separate and apart from the primary through bore. Explosively frangible fasteners configured for electronic triggering to set off explosive charges maintain the coupling members joined together. The explosively charges are sealed off from the external environment. Methods for rapidly separating a conduit.
Claims20
A rapidly separable conduit comprising:
- a first coupling member;
- a second coupling member configured to connect with the first coupling member to form a fluid conduit having a primary through bore;
- wherein the first and second coupling members are each configured with passages to form at least one secondary through bore separate and apart from the primary through bore;
- wherein the first and second coupling members are configured to accept at least one explosively frangible fastener to maintain the first and second coupling members joined to one another when the fluid conduit is formed;
- wherein the at least one explosively frangible fastener is configured for electronic triggering to set off an explosive charge disposed thereon;
- wherein the explosively charge is sealed off from the external environment when the fluid conduit is formed.
A method for rapidly separating a conduit, comprising:
- electronically triggering the detonation of an explosive charge on one or more explosively frangible fasteners disposed on a conduit comprising a first coupling member connected to a second coupling member;
- wherein the explosive charge is sealed off from the external environment;
- wherein the conduit comprises a primary through bore for fluid passage and at least one secondary through bore for fluid passage separate and apart from the primary through bore;
- and
- permitting separation of the first coupling member from the second coupling member upon the detonation of the explosive charge on the one or more explosively frangible fasteners on the conduit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.