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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 18, 2008
Filed:
Oct. 20, 2005
Thomas M. Rudy, Warrenton, VA (US);
Amar S. Wanni, Falls Church, VA (US);
Marciano M. Calanog, Stafford, TX (US);
Thomas M. Rudy, Warrenton, VA (US);
Amar S. Wanni, Falls Church, VA (US);
Marciano M. Calanog, Stafford, TX (US);
ExxonMobil Research & Engineering Company, Annandale, NJ (US);
Abstract
A support device for supporting a plurality of elongated members. The support device having a longitudinally extensive strip having a plurality of sets of transverse corrugations located at successive longitudinal locations along the strip. Each set of transverse corrugations forming a plurality of elongated member engaging zones extending laterally outwards from both faces of the strip to engage the elongated members in the tube bundle on opposite sides of a tube lane. The support device is useful to support elongated members in a bundle and to mitigate the possibility of damage from flow-induced vibration in elongated members.