EP0963337A1 - Dispositif repliable et empilable d'enroulement de conduites tubulaires flexibles - Google Patents
Dispositif repliable et empilable d'enroulement de conduites tubulaires flexiblesInfo
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- EP0963337A1 EP0963337A1 EP98955721A EP98955721A EP0963337A1 EP 0963337 A1 EP0963337 A1 EP 0963337A1 EP 98955721 A EP98955721 A EP 98955721A EP 98955721 A EP98955721 A EP 98955721A EP 0963337 A1 EP0963337 A1 EP 0963337A1
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- Prior art keywords
- winding
- hub
- spokes
- winding device
- carousel
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- Legal status (The legal status is an assumption and is not a legal conclusion. Google has not performed a legal analysis and makes no representation as to the accuracy of the status listed.)
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- B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
- B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
- B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
- B65H75/00—Storing webs, tapes, or filamentary material, e.g. on reels
- B65H75/02—Cores, formers, supports, or holders for coiled, wound, or folded material, e.g. reels, spindles, bobbins, cop tubes, cans, mandrels or chucks
- B65H75/34—Cores, formers, supports, or holders for coiled, wound, or folded material, e.g. reels, spindles, bobbins, cop tubes, cans, mandrels or chucks specially adapted or mounted for storing and repeatedly paying-out and re-storing lengths of material provided for particular purposes, e.g. anchored hoses, power cables
- B65H75/36—Cores, formers, supports, or holders for coiled, wound, or folded material, e.g. reels, spindles, bobbins, cop tubes, cans, mandrels or chucks specially adapted or mounted for storing and repeatedly paying-out and re-storing lengths of material provided for particular purposes, e.g. anchored hoses, power cables without essentially involving the use of a core or former internal to a stored package of material, e.g. with stored material housed within casing or container, or intermittently engaging a plurality of supports as in sinuous or serpentine fashion
Definitions
- the present invention relates to a device for winding flexible tubular conduits.
- the pipes in question are in particular the pipes for transporting hydrocarbons laid underwater from laying ships.
- Such pipes are well known and can be continuous or made of assembled sections. Their rigidity is variable and here we mean by flexible pipes simply to indicate that they can be rolled up without plastic deformation into coils of large diameter.
- Flexible tubular conduits are manufactured in great length ashore and must then be transported to the installation site, either directly on the installation vessel when the distance between the shore site and the installation site is not too great, or generally on an intermediate transport barge which will take them to the laying vessel.
- a reel is made up of a horizontal winding axis held between two cheeks, all of an average size (for example 9x9x5 m 3 ) and a related capacity (190 tonnes), while a carousel is defined by a large central column winding tray with a vertical axis, all of a very large size (for example with a radius of 16m) and capacity (2000 tonnes). While the reels can be handled individually fairly easily, the carousels cannot.
- reel-reel reel transport
- carousel-carousel solution transfer of the pipe from reels to the quay on a carousel on board
- carousel-carousel solution transfer of the pipe from a carousel alongside on a carousel on board
- the drawbacks of the coils are on the one hand that their small diameter requires the pipes to be fairly flexible (that they allow a relatively small minimum bending radius), and that their coiled length is not very great. If the pipe is in reels on board (reel-to-reel solution), the total length on board is average, and the cost of empty reel of the reels is high, taking into account the space lost. On the other hand, the reel-reel solution is particularly flexible during loading at the quay, and loading takes place quickly and safely.
- the total on-board length is greater, but the transfer from reels to carousel is long (which entails costs of immobilizing the boat) and induces risks of twisting the pipe.
- the empty return of the boat carousel is expensive.
- the carousel-carousel solution makes it possible to embark on pipes that are both considerably longer and possibly less flexible, but not only is the loading operation, as in the previous case, slow and not very flexible, but risks of total blockage of production is not excluded in case of problems during winding. The problem of the empty return is not resolved either.
- Coils with two flanges connected by a hub are known in the context of winding and transporting cables or the like. medium dimensions, partially foldable.
- patent FR 2 698 623 A shows a coil with two flanges, the particularity of which is that the flanges can be folded down along a cord.
- the hub is foldable.
- the object of the invention is to develop a new possibility of transporting pipes thanks to a better adapted winding device, which avoids most of the drawbacks of known solutions without losing the advantages.
- a flexible tubular pipe winding device of the type comprising at least one winding wheel constituted by a winding hub and spokes extending from the hub in a radial plane, characterized in that the spokes are articulated on the hub so that they can be folded back towards the axis of the hub, which makes it possible to considerably reduce the volume of the idle wheel.
- each spoke has over its length one or more articulations allowing it to be folded back on itself, which further reduces the volume of the idle wheel.
- each spoke has two branched articulated parts capable of giving, when they are deployed in said radial plane, a very large different winding capacity.
- the wheels of the invention can be stacked on an existing ship's carousel, but according to a very advantageous aspect of the invention, several wheels are associated with a specific stacking pallet placed on the deck of the boat, which may or may not include a column for centering the winding wheels.
- the pallet is preferably motorized to allow the hose to unwind under the same conditions as with a conventional carousel.
- the wheel hub is self-stacking. It is also advantageous if the hub of the wheels is of a size allowing, near folding of the arms, to transport the wheel in a container of standard size. It is also advantageous to provide at least one internal winding stop, preferably radially adjustable, and / or external is provided on the arms. Thanks to these characteristics, it is possible to manipulate the winding wheels using quay cranes or on board individually with the speed, modularity and flexibility of handling conventional coils, but without being limited. flexibility because the wheels can have a diameter on the order of that of a conventional carousel and not a spool. The wheels with their winding are stacked on board on the associated pallet and form a carousel with advantages comparable to those of a conventional carousel.
- FIG. 2A is a schematic view of the stack of wheels in accordance with the invention on a conventional ship's carousel
- FIG. 3 is a side view with partial section of an exemplary embodiment of a wheel
- FIG. 4 is a partial side view with partial section of another exemplary embodiment of a wheel
- FIG. 5 is a top view of a third embodiment of the wheel.
- Figure 1 shows a wheel or spider 1 consisting of a cylindrical hub 2, around which extends in a radial plane a plurality of radial arms or spokes 3.
- the spokes are connected to the hub 2 by an articulation which will be detailed later , possibly located on a flange 4 surrounding a part of the hub 2.
- the spokes 3 are intended to support a flexible pipe winding (shown by the reference 14 in FIG. 2); in order to lighten the structure, it is possible to provide (as shown in FIG. 1) that the section of the spokes decreases, regularly or by degrees, as one moves away from the hub 2, and that the section of the spoke is subjected to less effort due to the lower number of supported coils.
- a set of spiders 1 is associated with a pallet 10 consisting of a base 11 with motorized rotation relative to a base 12 disposed on the deck of the boat.
- the base 11 could include a centering column on which thread the hubs 2 of the stacked spiders, but preferably the hubs are self-stacking as described below.
- the base 11 comprises, circumferentially spaced ent on its periphery, removable vertical bars 20 which (cf. also FIG. 5) are inserted between the arms 3 of the spiders 1.
- the bars 20 are located on a cylinder enveloping the cylinder made up of the stack of hubs 2 and flanges 4.
- the bars 20 serve as a stack guide, and also provide the stability of the stack at sea.
- the bars 20 can contribute to driving the superimposed spiders in rotation.
- each spider 1 can comprise a single or several sections wound successively or superimposed of pipe 14.
- the pipes can have different diameters.
- a pipe 14 'of diameter larger than that of the pipe 14 to take account of its greatest minimum radius of curvature without deformation, provision has been made on the spokes 3 of the upper spider to place internal winding stops 16 defined with the minimum winding diameter.
- These stops 16 can be welded to the spokes 3 or be provided sliding and retractable on the spokes.
- external winding stops 15 can be provided at the end of the spokes 3, preferably retractable by means of an appropriate articulation.
- FIG. 3 illustrates in particular an embodiment of self-stacking hubs 2; they have at their upper and lower parts complementary nestable reliefs 5 and 6 and self-centering, in particular conical bearing surfaces.
- joint 7 between the spokes 3 and the flange 4 surrounding the hub. These joints are provided with locking so that the deployed arms of the spider can remain in a radial plane. It is possible to provide lifting rings 8 arranged on the flange 4 (or elsewhere as long as they do not interfere with the stacking of several spiders) intended for the handling of spiders.
- the spiders are no longer stacked on a specific pallet 10 but on an existing carousel 10A shown in FIG. 2A with its base 12A on which is mounted the large rotary plate 11A, having a central column 13A and an external cage 17A.
- the respective dimensions of the various components of a spider have not been observed in the drawings and differ according to their use on a carousel or on a specific pallet.
- the internal radius r of the hub 2 used on the carousel can be 3 m, while the radius R of a deployed arm can be 7 to 10 m for example.
- the height h available between the top of the radial plane formed by the arms 3 deployed of a spider and the superimposed spider is at least 0.65 m to allow the winding of the pipes having this diameter.
- Figure 4 shows another embodiment in which the arm 3 consists of two parts 3a, 3b hinged together by an articulation 9, allowing the radially outer part 3b of the arm to fold down along the radially part inside 3b of the arm, which is itself shown in its folded position parallel to the axis of the hub 2.
- Stacking the spiders in the folded position is possible by shifting the folded arms from one spider to the other by a certain angle.
- the arms 3 are not folded completely parallel to the axis of the hub but in an oblique orientation compatible with the encroachment.
- the version shown in Figure 5 is distinguished by the fact that the arms 3 have a first radially inner part 3a at the end of which is articulated two branched parts 3c capable of taking two distinct positions in the radial plane of support for the winding : a deployed position as shown in solid lines, where the parts 3c obliquely extend the radial parts
- the branched parts 3c make it possible to maintain the length of the winding arcs of the pipe between two support parts 3c at a value which does not give rise to the appearance of a detrimental arrow in the pipe between supports.
- Winding stops 15 and 16 can be provided on the arms 3.
- the internal stop 16 is advantageously adjustable in position radial so that the winding diameter of the pipe can be adjusted.
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- Pallets (AREA)
- Storage Of Web-Like Or Filamentary Materials (AREA)
- Packaging Of Machine Parts And Wound Products (AREA)
- Packaging Of Annular Or Rod-Shaped Articles, Wearing Apparel, Cassettes, Or The Like (AREA)
- Coiling Of Filamentary Materials In General (AREA)
- Storing, Repeated Paying-Out, And Re-Storing Of Elongated Articles (AREA)
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Applications Claiming Priority (3)
Application Number | Priority Date | Filing Date | Title |
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FR9716621 | 1997-12-29 | ||
FR9716621A FR2773203B1 (fr) | 1997-12-29 | 1997-12-29 | Dispositif repliable et empilable d'enroulement de conduites tubulaires flexibles |
PCT/FR1998/002499 WO1999033738A1 (fr) | 1997-12-29 | 1998-11-23 | Dispositif repliable et empilable d'enroulement de conduites tubulaires flexibles |
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EP0963337A1 true EP0963337A1 (fr) | 1999-12-15 |
EP0963337B1 EP0963337B1 (fr) | 2003-07-30 |
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US (1) | US6260791B1 (fr) |
EP (1) | EP0963337B1 (fr) |
AU (1) | AU740144B2 (fr) |
BR (1) | BR9807753A (fr) |
FR (1) | FR2773203B1 (fr) |
NO (1) | NO313509B1 (fr) |
OA (1) | OA11193A (fr) |
WO (1) | WO1999033738A1 (fr) |
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