公开(公告)号：US5924822A

公开(公告)日：1999-07-20

申请号：US951095

申请日：1997-10-15

申请人： Lyle David Finn ,  John Edwin Halkyard ,  Edward E. Horton, III

发明人： Lyle David Finn ,  John Edwin Halkyard ,  Edward E. Horton, III

IPC分类号： B63B9/06 ,  B63B35/00 ,  B63B35/44 ,  E02D25/00

CPC分类号： B63B35/003 ,  B63B35/44 ,  B63B9/065 ,  B63B2001/044

摘要： An apparatus and method for the installation of a deck on an offshore substructure. The invention is particularly useful with a floating substructure. Two independent pontoons each have two columns spaced apart from each other that extend upwardly from the pontoons. On each pontoon, a support beam attached to the columns spans the space between the columns. Each pontoon is provided with ballast tanks that allow the pontoons to be selectively ballasted or de-ballasted to control pontoon depth for receiving a deck or installing a deck on an offshore substructure. The pontoons may be ballasted down during transit of the deck such that the main body portion of the pontoons is below significant wave action and the columns present a relatively small water plane area. The pontoons allow the deck to be placed directly above the offshore substructure. For a floating substructure, the pontoons are ballasted while the floating substructure is simultaneously de-ballasted to transfer the deck to the floating substructure.

摘要翻译： 一种用于在海上子结构上安装甲板的装置和方法。 本发明对于浮动子结构特别有用。 两个独立的浮筒各自具有彼此间隔开的两列，从浮体向上延伸。 在每个浮筒上，连接到柱的支撑梁横跨柱之间的空间。 每个浮筒都设有压载舱，允许浮船被选择性地压载或卸载，以控制浮桥深度用于接收甲板或在海底子结构上安装甲板。 在甲板运输过程中，浮船可能被压载，使得浮船的主体部分低于显着的波浪作用，并且柱呈现相对较小的水平面积。 浮桥允许甲板直接放置在离岸子结构的正上方。 对于浮动子结构，浮筒被压载，而浮动底座同时被压载以将甲板转移到浮动底座。

公开(公告)号：US06299383B1

公开(公告)日：2001-10-09

申请号：US09333060

申请日：1999-06-14

申请人： Lyle David Finn ,  John Edwin Halkyard ,  Edward E. Horton, III

发明人： Lyle David Finn ,  John Edwin Halkyard ,  Edward E. Horton, III

IPC分类号： E02D2500

CPC分类号： B63B35/003 ,  B63B1/107 ,  B63B9/065 ,  B63B35/44 ,  B63B2009/067

摘要： An apparatus and method for the installation of a deck on an offshore substructure. The invention is particularly useful with a floating substructure. Two independent pontoons each have two columns spaced apart from each other that extend upwardly from the pontoons. On each pontoon, a support beam attached to the columns spans the space between the columns. In another embodiment, there is no support beam across the space between the columns. Each pontoon is provided with ballast tanks that allow the pontoons to be selectively ballasted or de-ballasted to control pontoon depth for receiving a deck or installing a deck on an offshore substructure. The pontoons may be ballasted down during transit of the deck such that the main body portion of the pontoons is below significant wave action and the columns present a relatively small water plane area. The pontoons allow the deck to be placed directly above the offshore substructure. For a floating substructure, the pontoons are ballasted while the floating substructure is simultaneously de-ballasted to transfer the deck to the floating substructure.

摘要翻译： 一种用于在海上子结构上安装甲板的装置和方法。 本发明对于浮动子结构特别有用。 两个独立的浮筒各自具有彼此间隔开的两列，从浮体向上延伸。 在每个浮筒上，连接到柱的支撑梁横跨柱之间的空间。 在另一个实施例中，在柱之间的空间上不存在支撑梁。 每个浮筒都设有压载舱，允许浮船被选择性地压载或卸载，以控制浮桥深度用于接收甲板或在海底子结构上安装甲板。 在甲板运输过程中，浮船可能被压载，使得浮船的主体部分低于显着的波浪作用，并且柱呈现相对较小的水平面积。 浮桥允许甲板直接放置在离岸子结构的正上方。 对于浮动子结构，浮筒被压载，而浮动底座同时被压载以将甲板转移到浮动底座。

公开(公告)号：US5683205A

公开(公告)日：1997-11-04

申请号：US431147

申请日：1995-04-28

申请人： John Edwin Halkyard

发明人： John Edwin Halkyard

IPC分类号： B63B21/50 ,  E21B17/01 ,  F16B1/00

CPC分类号： E21B17/017 ,  B63B21/502 ,  Y10T403/27

摘要： A stress relieving joint for pipe such as risers, tendons, and the like used in floating vessel systems wherein a vessel is subject to heave, pitch, and roll motion caused by wind, currents, and wave action; the pipe passing through a constraint opening in the vessel and connected to the sea floor and subject to bending or rotation at the constraint opening. The joint comprises a sleeve member of selected length with ends at opposite sides of the constraint opening and centralizing annuli or rings at sleeve member ends for providing spaced contact points or areas to distribute bending stresses imparted to the sleeve member at the constraint opening to the pipe at the sleeve member ends. A method of relieving or distributing stress in a pipe at a constraint location.

摘要翻译： 在浮动船舶系统中使用的用于诸如立管，钢筋等的管道的应力消除接头，其中容器由风，电流和波浪作用引起的起伏，俯仰和侧倾运动; 管道通过容器中的约束开口并连接到海底并在约束开口处经受弯曲或旋转。 接头包括选定长度的套筒构件，其端部在约束开口的相对侧并且在套筒构件端部处集中环形或环，用于提供间隔开的接触点或区域，以分配在限制开口处施加到套筒构件的弯曲应力 在套筒构件端部。 在约束位置的管道中释放或分布应力的方法。