Device for filling in a trench dug in the sea bed in order to cover a pipe laid down in the trench

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 5659983
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08522320

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An improved trench-filling device for covering a pipe and filling in a trench dug in a sea bed, characterized in that the device comprises two sets of nozzles (6,7) arranged above and proximate to the sea bed on both sides of the trench (1), the nozzles pointing towards the sea bed and towards the trench and being fed with pressurized water to direct powerful jets of water into the ground making up the sea bed adjacent the trench to deposit into the trench constituent parts of the adjacent ground as the trench-filling device progresses along the trench, and guides (14, 14') provided above to channel the high pressure jet streams created by the nozzles (6,7).

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COFLEXIP92973 PARIS LA DEFENSE

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Coutarel, Alain Paris, FR 27 362
Pettenati-Auziere, Christophe Neuilly sur Seine, FR 1 16

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