Pipe connection device
CA 2076367 C · Owner: Salah, Ahmed Ben · Inventors: O'Donnell, Hugh W.; Salah, Ahmed Ben
Overview
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An apparatus and method for underwater aligning and connecting of two pipes used in directional drilling and particularly trenchless beach crossings. An alignment cable is connected between the ends of the two pipes and is tensioned to bring them into axial alignment. A rigid supporting platform is positioned on the sea floor. Securing clamps are mounted on the platform to align the two pipes. To thread the pipes, one pipe rotates about the joint axis.
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- Filed February 11, 1991 and granted December 8, 1998. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended February 11, 2011.
- A certificate of supplementary protection adds at most two years for a drug, so even that would have ended by February 11, 2013.
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