Faired umbilical cable
AssigneeShell Oil Company
InventorRay R. Ayers
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Abstract
The present invention pertains to an underwater seismic cable which has at least one tensile cable placed upstream in faired cross sectional arrangement. Located downstream of the tensile cable are placed other electrical, pneumatic and hydraulic cables and hoses, with the electrical cables being adjacent the tension cable.
Claims6
A seismic cable suitable for underwater towing comprising a torsionally resistant torque-balanced tension member having cable strands arranged with alternating lay directions and lay angles to be resistant to twisting, an electrical bundle and an air hose arranged side-by-side and spaced apart by a continuously elongate, flexible jacket which is in situ molded between and around and thereby locked to the tension member, electrical bundle and air hose, the jacket having a faired shape and the tension member being in the leading edge of the in situ molded jacket.
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