Bridgestone Tire Company Limited

Yukio Tsukagawa

Isao Nagaoka

Hiroshi Kawakami

A suction device for an oil separation tank mounted on a floating body comprises a liquid piping structure for transporting floating oil from the oil separation tank into a storage tank and a vacuum piping structure for always retaining floating oil in the oil separation tank at a suction state, and may automatically control an intermittent suction operation.

Suction device for an oil separation tank

A device for pulling up and paying out an oil boom comprises a structural frame, a pair of end pulleys horizontally journaled on the frame, an endless belt engaged with the end pulleys and having a plurality of engaging projections for oil boom and a pusher member for slightly urging the oil boom against the endless belt, the pusher member being resiliently supported by a supporting member with a proper distance held between the bottom portion of the pusher member and the upper surface of the endless belt.

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Yokohama, Japan

Yukio Tsukagawa