Submarine pipe construction
AssigneeSea Solar Power
InventorJ. Hilbert Anderson
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Abstract
A plurality of sealed tubes, pipes or the like constituting the wall of a relatively large diameter pipe that is susceptible of being submerged and which has buoyant or semibuoyant walls. The tubes or pipes are arranged parallel to one another in a circular pattern with their axes parallel to the axis of the large diameter pipe and said tubes are sealed to one another along their length. A suitable clamping device is positioned upon said tubes or pipes to prevent them from collapsing over each other which acts as a positive stabilizer while maintaining said tubes or pipes in alignment in a circle.
Claims10
A large diameter pipe adapted to be submerged in a body of water in substantially a vertical direction, said pipe being constructed of a plurality of sections or segments of parallel hollow tubes or pipes arranged with their axes parallel to the axis of the pipe with the diameter of said tubes or pipes being less than the diameter of said pipe, an expansion sleeve positioned in the lower end of each tube of one section and in the upper end of each tube of the subjacent section for connecting and joining the ends of adjacent tubes, a shear sleeve segment provided on a portion of the external surface of said expansion sleeve, a shear clamp engaging said shear sleeves and tension means engaging said clamps for retaining them in engagement with said shear sleeves.
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