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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 11, 2013
Filed:
Dec. 17, 2008
Applicants:
Richard Alastair Clements, Durham, GB;
Zhimin Tan, Kathy, TX (US);
Inventors:
Richard Alastair Clements, Durham, GB;
Zhimin Tan, Kathy, TX (US);
Assignee:
Wellstream International Limited, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, GB;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F16L 11/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A flexible pipe body and a method of manufacturing flexible pipe body and a tape used during the manufacturing are disclosed. The flexible pipe body includes at least one layer of helically wound tape, adjacent windings in the layer of tape being interlocked by a hooked region of a winding nested in a valley region of an adjacent winding wherein the tape has a cross-sectional profile comprising a first contact surface and parallel spaced apart side walls substantially perpendicular to the contact surface.