Telemetering system
OwnerPhilip Headinventor
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Abstract
A pipe installation system has a pipe composed of sections that are added and removed to increase and decrease a length of the pipe. The system further has a cable storage spool for stowing a length of cable in a compact manner inside the pipe and for paying out the stowed cable when the length of the pipe is increased such that the paid-out cable is deployed along the increased length of the pipe. An anchoring assembly attaches the cable to an inside surface of the pipe at predetermined locations spaced along the pipe with respective anchors as the cable is deployed in the pipe.
Claims16
A pipe installation system having a pipe composed of pipe sections which are added and removed to increase and decrease a length of the pipe, the system comprising:
- a length of cable;
- cable storage means for stowing the cable in a compact manner inside the pipe and for paying out the stowed cable when the length of the pipe is increased such that the paid-out cable is deployed along the increased length of the pipe;
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- anchoring means for attaching the cable to an inside surface of the pipe at predetermined locations spaced along the pipe with respective anchors as the cable is deployed in the pipe.
A method of assembling pipe sections to form a pipe and of installing a continuous cable within the assembled pipe, the method comprising the steps of:
- supporting a continuous length of cable in a compact manner on a spool releasably connectable to a tension line within the pipe,
- prior to adding a new pipe section to the pipe, resting the spool on support means within the pipe and disconnecting the tension line from the spool, and thereafter
- adding new pipe section and thereafter reconnecting the tension line to the spool to support the spool as the new pipe section is progressively fitted, and
- thereafter pulling the spool up through the new section while simultaneously paying out of the cable from the spool and connecting the cable with anchors to an inner surface of the pipe at locations spaced apart along the pipe.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.