Installation for storing and holding gas cylinders
AssigneeL'Air Liquide, Societe Anonyme pour l'Etude et l'Exploitation des Procedes Georges Claude
InventorAnthony Mc Cord
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Abstract
The installation comprises, along a vertical frame (1), locations for gas cylinders, these locations being partially defined by a rack that can be used for transporting the cylinders (7), each location comprising, on the frame, a holding device (9, 10) that can be swung between a lockable closed configuration preventing the insertion or extraction of a cylinder, and an open configuration.
Claims11
A device for storing and holding at least two gas cylinders, comprising a stationary vertical stand part having a base portion for fixing to a floor and at least one separate, transportable, cylinder-supporting rack positionable at the base of the stand part;
- the rack having a base plate and defining at least two cylinder positioning spaces, each for freely supporting a cylinder;
- the vertical stand part carrying at least two horizontally spaced cylinder holding means, each having a holding structure movable between an open position and a closed position, where the holding structure surrounds, at least partially, at least an upper part of a cylinder placed vertically on the base plate of the rack.
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