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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 13, 2016
Filed:
Jul. 31, 2013
Saipem S.p.a., San Donato, Milanese, IT;
Serafino Cittadini Bellini, Ascoli Piceno, IT;
Saipem S.p.A., Milan, IT;
Abstract
A field joint coating unit for coating a cutback area along a pipeline in which the apparatus includes an extruder having an extrusion outlet positioned adjacent and facing the cutback area so that a protective sheet can be extruded having a width that exceeds an axially extending width of the cutback area, and a mechanism supporting the extruder and its tank, the extrusion outlet, and a roller for compressing the protective sheet onto the cutback area in which the mechanism rotate the extruder, the tank, the extrusion outlet, and the roller about the pipeline as the protective sheet is extruded while maintaining the position of the extrusion outlet relative to the cutback area.