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US 5,294,222 AGranted
Method of preventing damage to pipe joints during shipment
AssigneeMobil Oil Corporation
InventorH. Bill Smith
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Abstract
A method is provided for protecting pipe joints during shipment. Each individual pipe joint to be stacked in the hold of a ship for transport has several rope rings assembled therearound. Rope rings are assembled around the pipe joints during or just prior to the loading operation, using flexible plastic locking strips to secure the ends of lengths of multiple-stranded hemp rope together forming protective rings.
Claims22
Method of separating adjacent pipe joints from one another with rope rings during shipping, comprising the steps of:
- cutting rope into lengths longer than the circumference of the corresponding pipe joints;
- wrapping said lengths of rope around said pipe joints so that cut ends of each length of rope adjoin one another;
- and
- securing said adjoining cut ends of each said length of rope to one another over said pipe joints to form rope rings over said pipe joints, prior to placing said pipe joints in container means for shipment.
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A method for loading a hold of a ship with pipe joints for transport, comprising the steps of:
- securing wooden timbers to a deck and to longitudinal bulkheads of said hold;
- disposing at least three continuous rings of hemp rope over each pipe joint to be loaded into said hold;
- stacking first and subsequent layers of said pipe joints on said timbers on the deck of said hold;
- and
- completing each layer before beginning to stack the next, by placing further wood timbers between each layer of pipe joints.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.