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Remotely operated seafloor coring and drilling method and system

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专利汇可以提供Remotely operated seafloor coring and drilling method and system专利检索,专利查询,专利分析的服务。并且Method and apparatus for emplacing a structure such as a casing, piling or core barrel into the floor of a body of water, hereafter referred to as sea floor. The structure is mounted on a towable and submersible vessel which includes a number of ballast tanks, and means are provided to selectively vary the ballast in certain ones of the tanks in a manner causing the vessel to have selectively controllable negative or positive buoyancy for descent or ascent, respectively, to or from the sea floor. A support device on the vessel is adapted to move the structure between a horizontal orientation for towing and descent and an upright position for drilling. after the vessel reaches the sea floor. The vessel descends with a positive metacenter to maintain the established orientation until it reaches the sea floor, after which it is anchored and leveled for commencing the drilling operation. The structure is advanced into the floor through increments of drilling strokes by means of rotating, through oscillatory or continuous rotary motion, a clamping mechanism which is engaged at incremental positions along the length of the structure. Means are provided to control the thrust force between the drilling end of the structure and the sea floor. An umbilical cable supplies power and control functions from a surface ship to the submerged vessel. Water under pressure is circulated through the interior volume of the structure to carry cuttings material away from the cutting end. Following completion of the drilling operation grout material is pumped into the void spaces between the structure and sea floor. The vessel is recovered for subsequent use by disengaging the clamping mechanism from the structure and blowing selective ones of the ballast tanks to cause the vessel to have positive buoyancy.,下面是Remotely operated seafloor coring and drilling method and system专利的具体信息内容。

1. An apparatus for emplacing a core barrel, casing, piling or other type of structure having one end thereof adapted for cutting material in the floor of a body of water, including the combination of a support frame, ballast container means on the support frame, means to introduce ballast into said container means to create negative bouyancy for said apparatus, means to remove ballast from said container means to creat-positive buoyancy for said apparatus, means on the frame to support a length of said structure for movement to a position with its longitudinal axis oriented along a predetermined angle of entry with respect to said floor and with said cutting end disposed lowermost, and means to move said one end of the structure to cause the structure to cut into and advance toward said floor along said angle of entry, means to cause said core barrel, casing, piling or other type of structure of oscillate about its longitudinal axis through a pre-determined arc, said means to include a combination of clamping means to releasably engage the outer periphery of said core barrel, casing, piling or other type of structure, means to impart rotary motion to said clamping means when the latter is in clamping engagement with said core barrel, casing, piling, or other type of structure, means to oscillate said clamping means, core barrel, casing, piling or other type of structure through a pre-determined arc about the latters longitudinal axis to include means forming a gear track on said clamping means with said gear track extended about the longitudinal axis of said core barrel, casing, piling or other type structure and means to drivingly engage said gear track with one or more sector gears engaging said gear track and means to oscillate said sector gears through a pre-determined arc and impart rotary motion to said gear track, said clamping means, said core barrel, casing, piling or other type of structure.
2. Apparatus as in claim 1 in which said clamping means includes a collar mounted about said structure, gripping means on the inner periphery of said collar for releasably engaging said structure, said collar being adapted to move radially to and from said structure to respectively cause said gripping means to grip with or release from said structure, drivable means mounted with said collar to cause said collar to undergo said radial movement, and actuating means mounted with said frame and including a drive member engageable with said drivable means to actuate the latter when said means to rotate said structure is inactivated, and means to move said drive member into engagement with said drivable means for gripping or release of said gripping means, or out of said engagement whereby said clamping means is free for rotation in a given angular direction.
3. Apparatus as in claim 2 in which said collar comprises at least a pair of jaw members, means pivotally connecting one end oF each jaw member together, and said means to open and close the collar includes a drive shaft, means forming two series of threads on the shaft with opposite rotational senses, means threadably connecting said two series of threads with respective portions of said jaw members on ends thereof opposite said one end, and means to turn said drive shaft whereby said collar is opened and closed.
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