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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 16, 2003
Filed:
Oct. 25, 2001
Thomas Walther, Waterford, CT (US);
David Jordan, Pawcatuck, CT (US);
Electric Boat Corporation, Groton, CT (US);
Abstract
In the vertical corner transition arrangement for semi-membrane tanks disclosed in the specification, curved horizontal sides plate of a semi-membrane tank wall are welded to one side of a vertical extruded aluminum modified I-beam with a vertical tapered stiffening corner block projection on the opposite side of the extruded aluminum I-beam, and the edge of a vertical unstiffened curved cylinder section is butt-welded to the projecting edge of the vertical tapered stiffening corner block. The curved plates of an orthogonally oriented semi-membrane tank wall are welded to one side of another vertical extruded I-beam member having a projecting vertical tapered stiffening corner block welded to the opposite side with a projecting edge which is welded to the opposite edge of the vertical stiffened curved cylinder section to complete the corner of the tank.