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US 4,290,463 AGranted
Loading arm
AssigneeYoungstown Sheet and Tube Company
InventorsBernard J. DeGeorge, Dean E. Hermanson, Carlos Tomas
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Abstract
A loading arm having dual inboard and outboard arms and dual connections for connecting the arm to a tank in which provision is made for the loading arm to be connected to side-by-side flanges on the tank and to provide for movement of the connecting system in three mutually perpendicular planes relative to the outboard arm of the loading arm.
Claims10
A loading arm comprising,
- a support,
- main and auxiliary riser pipes on said support,
- inboard and outboard main and auxiliary arms carried by said support and connected to said riser pipes,
- means maintaining said outboard arms in fixed relationship with each other,
- a first pair of elbows spaced from each other and connected to said outboard arms,
- a first pair of swivel joints spaced from each other and connected to said first pair of elbows and rotatable about a first axis,
- a second pair of elbows spaced from each other and connected to said first pair of swivel joints,
- a second pair of swivel joints spaced from each other and connected to said second pair of elbows and rotatable about a second axis perpendicular to said first axis,
- a third pair of elbows spaced from each other and connected to said second pair of swivel joints,
- a third pair of swivel joints spaced from each other and connected to said third pair of elbows and each rotatable about an axis perpendicular to both said first and second axes, and
- a connecting means carried by each of said third pair of swivel joints.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.