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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 03, 1992
Filed:
Nov. 05, 1990
Applicant:
Inventor:
Michael F Hill, Calgary, CA;
Assignee:
Nova Corporation of Alberta, Calgary, CA;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F16L / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
405154 ; 405157 ; 405172 ;
Abstract
Pipelines are maintained in subterranean location by a plurality of weighting devices which include an elongate central raised region enclosing the pipeline and generally planar flanges extending outwardly from the central raised region in a common plane. Backfill overlaying the flanges provides an increased resistance to upward movement of the buried pipeline under the influence of an encompassing fluid medium or other force.