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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 03, 2017
Filed:
Nov. 19, 2014
GE Oil & Gas Uk Limited, Nailsea, Bristol, GB;
Tony Eccleston, Tyne & Wear, GB;
George Karabelas, Houghton le Spring, GB;
Zhimin Tan, Katy, TX (US);
GE Oil & Gas UK Limited, Nailsea, Bristol, GB;
Abstract
An outer collar member of an end fitting for a flexible pipe. The apparatus comprises an outer collar body portion and an outer collar neck portion extending away from the outer collar body portion. The neck portion is arranged to be secured to a portion of flexible pipe body in a slotted position between layers of the flexible pipe body. The position is located between an outer sheath of the flexible pipe body and at least one armour layer of the flexible pipe body wherein the outer collar body portion comprises a curved inner surface region for determining a radius of curvature of wires of the armour layer bent away from an axis of the flexible pipe bodies and supported by the curved inner surface when the pipe body is mounted in the end fitting.