Patents Assigned to Ocean Phoenix Holdings NV
  • Patent number: 4374478
    Abstract: The invention relates to tanks for the storage of liquid and has particular application to the land storage of liquefied gas at low temperature at or above atmospheric pressure. Thus, the invention provides a storage tank of the kind in which the walls are formed by a multiplicity of connected, parallel, part-cylindrical lobes presenting outwardly convex arcuate surfaces, which is characterized in that the side and end walls thereof are provided by a single tier of connected lobes, in that said lobes extend in one common direction over the tank, in that the end walls of the tank comprise part-spherical knuckles closing off the ends of the part-cylindrical lobes, and in that a separating plate is provided at each lobe connection to strengthen the tank against internal pressure and to divide it into separate storage compartments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 1980
    Date of Patent: February 22, 1983
    Assignee: Ocean Phoenix Holdings NV
    Inventors: Herbert C. Secord, deceased, by Fanny E. P. Secord, executor