Subsea clamping apparatus

Patent · Tue Nov 10 00:00:00 EST 1987

OSTI ID:5695705

Britton, J N

A self-actuating clamp for attachment to a member disposed in subsea environment is described, comprising a housing, including a pair of opposed elongated jaw members the upper portions of which are disposed within the housing and between the pair of spaced side members and below the compression plate, a pair of stop pins one of which is disposed transversely through each of the jaw members and projects through one of the air of registered horizontally spaced-apart elongated angled slots and each of the side members, an inverted U-shaped clevis disposed over the mating ends of the pair of jaw members and engaging the opposite ends of the pivot pin, and an elongated clevis rod fixed to the inverted U-shaped clevis and projecting vertically through the aperture in the compression plate.

• Assignee: Wayne Graham and Associates International, Inc., Houston, TX
• Patent Number(s): US 4705331
• OSTI ID: 5695705
• Resource Relation: Patent File Date: Filed date 11 Jan 1985
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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