Weight set connecting mechanism for subsea tubular members

Abstract From the Canadian patent

An improved mechanism for connecting tubular members in a subsea well in which the members are locked together in a preloaded condition. In the preferred form of the invention the loading is provided by a series of fingers mounted on the inner tubular member and flexing through a restriction in the outer tubular member during landing and then springing back from such flexed position to engage and wedge against a tapered shoulder at the lower end of the restriction to both lock the inner tubular member in its seated position and also to provide the preloading desired. In a second form the, inner member is landed on a ring which is engaged on the outer tubular member landing seat and then …