Viv Suppression, Inc.

Advanced Industrial & Marine Services

Cecil M Brandon, Jr

Rodney H Masters

Kurt D Vandervort

Stuart John Harbert

Bill Griffith

Randy W Masters

The present invention discloses a compliant banding system for use in a marine environment comprising a flexible compliant member and an abaxial relatively rigid strap, both constructed to extend circumferentially around an underlying structure such as a strake or fairing collar. The strap maintains a fixed circumference while the compliant member flexes intermediate the strap and an underlying.

Compliant banding system

A flexible mechanical joint is disclosed for joining a first elongated structural section with a second elongated structural section. The joint is compressible and expandable at least along a substantially longitudinal direction upon movement of at least one of the first and second sections. The joint includes a first connecting portion fixedly attached to the first section and a second connecting portion fixedly attached to the second section. The joint also has a flexible member that connects the first connecting portion with the second connecting portion and is positioned between the two connecting portions. The flexible member is shiftable upon relative longitudinal movement between the first and second sections. At least one of the first and second connecting portions includes an anchoring member frictionally engaging one of the first and second sections and including a lip that is secured into the one section. Further, the first and second connecting portions define at least one variable space therebetween and the variable space has a longitudinal length or volume that varies in response to relative movement between the first and second sections along the substantially longitudinal direction. Further, the flexible member is rotatable within the variable space upon relative substantially longitudinal movement between the first and second sections. Further yet, the mechanical joint may be positioned within the variable space to divide the variable space into a first variable subspace and a second variable subspace.

Flexible mechanical joint

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Spring, TX, United States of America

Cecil M Brandon, Jr