A device by pressure vessels (2) for sea transport of petroleum fluids, where at least two pressure vessels (2) are connected to and communicate with a manifold (1).

A heavy duty hinge construction for lidded vessels such as coffee pots, sugar bowls and the like, particularly suited for restaurant and other commercial environs, and adapted to withstand substantially continued use, while permitting substantially 180.degree. pivotal movement of the lid to enable washing with automatic equipment.

The present invention relates to a navigating bridge for seagoing vessels with a panorama-deckhouse and a central action station with a concentration of all means necessary for observation and operation within the range of the operator in charge. There are port and starboard workplaces with port and starboard chairs, respectively, and a U-like navigating desk embracing the port and starboard workplaces having a front console and adjoining starboard and port side consoles. The port and starboard ...

A multi-hull vessel includes at least a pair of substantially parallel interconnected hulls and the outermost hulls each include a mast for supporting a sail. When sailing close hauled the wind on the leeward sail produces a force having a component tending to lift the adjacent windward hull out of the water which is counterbalanced by a corresponding downward component of the force produced by the wind on the windward sail.

A slide closure includes a housing, a fixed refractory plate positioned in the housing by a metal holding frame, a refractory slide plate positioned for sliding movement within the housing by a metal slide, and a housing closure closing the housing and having spaced rails for supporting the slide. Each side of the slide has a pair of projections contacting one rail. Each pair of projections is spaced by a distance substantially equal to the rail spacing. The holding frame is pivotally attached a...

A protective shield for a pressure vessel which includes a ductile member for absorbing kinetic energy released if the pressure vessel fails by a portion of the pressure vessel breaking-off and tending to fly away from the remainder of the pressure vessel; the ductile member or a portion thereof undergoing substantial deformation, but not breaking, when loaded by the portion of the pressure vessel which tends to fly-away when the pressure vessel fails.

An apparatus for damping vertical movement of a semi-submersible vessel having a small waterplane area, whose buoyancy is provided substantially completely by submerged pontoon means and which includes at least one submerged damper plate having valves or similar flow controllers therein for providing substantially greater resistance to upward movement of the plate than downward movement. The damper plate is supported deep beneath the semi-submersible vessel by flexible, tensioned support element...

A vertical damping system for a plurality of water vessels for diminishing the relative vertical movement between two or more water vessels moored in a skin-to-skin orientation. The vertical damping system may include one or more vertical damping devices, each device pivotally connected to a side portion of a first vessel and detachably connecting to a side portion of a second vessel. The vertical damping device may be a piston/cylinder arrangement and the damping system may involve more than tw...

A device for transferring sample vessels carried by a microtiter member to collecting vessels which are carried in cassettes and are dimensioned to accommodate the sample vessels. The device is composed of a table provided with a distributor plate for receiving and supporting the microtiter member and which is provided with openings corresponding in number to the number of sample vessels, each opening being located to lie below a respective one of the sample vessels when the microtiter member is...

The present invention provides an implant device and an associated method for interconnecting human vessels rapidly, safely and in a minimally invasive manner. The device comprises a first segment, a second segment, and a flow opening along the periphery of the two connected segments. The first and second segments are bendable for easy insertion into an incision made within each vessel. Upon release, each bendable segment subsequently conforms to the interior walls of a vessel to provide a seali...