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Kenneth Winans Lefever

John J Gallagher

A system for storing a first liquid isolated from the ambient environment by a second liquid of different density including outer walls forming a chamber, a flexible membrane in the chamber to form an inner chamber spaced from the chamber for containing the first liquid, means to maintain spaced relation between the chambers when full, and the second liquid filling the space between the chamber walls and the membrane.

Liquid storage systems

Where a pipeline is to cross an earthquake fault zone, a trench is dug in the earth substantially wider and deeper than the diameter of the pipeline. The pipeline is installed in the trench in a bed of spherical bodies, which thereafter function during an earthquake to partially absorb compression and shear waves, and to disperse forces acting on the pipeline, whereby the effect of such forces on the pipeline is minimized with the result that rupture does not occur.

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Waterford, VA, United States of America

Kenneth Winans Lefever