Vetco Gray Controls Limited

Andrew Simon Hamblin

Gareth Huw Lewis

A stabplate connection is provided by: providing a first part () comprising a stabplate and carried by an underwater structure; providing a second part () comprising a stabplate carried by tooling (); engaging the tooling with said first part; using the tooling to bring the parts together so the stabplates mate with each other; using the tooling to lock the first and second parts together by engaging a portion () carried by the first part with a portion () carried by the second part; disengaging the tooling from the first part; and removing the tooling from the stabplate connection.

Stabplate connections

A mechanism for clamping first and second stabplates together comprises a pivoted cam member and clamping means for co-operating with the cam member. The mechanism is such that the cam member is displaceable between a first position in which, in co-operation with the clamping means, it clamps the stabplates together and a second position in which it has rotated to be between the stabplates with the stabplates separate from each other.

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Portishead, United Kingdom

Andrew Simon Hamblin