Patents Assigned to Taylor Woodrow Construction, Limited
  • Equipment for extracting oil or gas from under the sea bed and method of installing such equipment
    Patent number: 4187038
    Abstract: A method of, and equipment for, providing at the sea bed at a deep water site an installation for extracting oil or gas and comprising an anchored base structure and a column extending from the base structure to above the surface and made up of telescopically arranged column sections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 1977
    Date of Patent: February 5, 1980
    Assignee: Taylor Woodrow Construction Limited
    Inventor: Reginald S. Taylor
  • Joints for anchoring structures to the sea bed
    Patent number: 4175890
    Abstract: Oil and gas extraction from deep water sites. Various structures and equipment are described, including vessels for oil/gas storage beneath the surface and/or conduction to the surface, concrete being extensively used in the construction of the structures. A joint is described that articulately connects a structure to the sea bed or to another structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 1976
    Date of Patent: November 27, 1979
    Assignee: Taylor Woodrow Construction Limited
    Inventor: Reginald S. Taylor
  • Pre-stressing of concrete pressure vessels
    Patent number: 4121780
    Abstract: A temporary platform encircling a concrete pressure vessel carries endless rails on which a mobile unit runs. The unit has a supply drum from which is drawn pre-stressing wire anchored at its free end in one of many channels in the outside wall of the vessel. The wire leaves the unit via a tensioning unit and a payout sheave both carried by the mobile unit. Hoist ropes fixed at intervals around the platform and connected to winches lift and lower the platform to locate the sheave at the level of each channel in turn.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 1975
    Date of Patent: October 24, 1978
    Assignee: Taylor Woodrow Construction Limited
    Inventors: Reginald Sidney Taylor, Reginald Edwin Downton Burrow, John Morton Mason, John Richard Portas, William David Thomas
  • Articulated joints for deep water installations
    Patent number: 4069682
    Abstract: An articulated joint for a deep water installation in which two structural members are connected by flexible tendons and there is access from one of the members to the other via a hollow shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 1976
    Date of Patent: January 24, 1978
    Assignee: Taylor Woodrow Construction Limited
    Inventors: Reginald Sidney Taylor, Reginald Edward Dowton Burrow
  • Articulated joints for deep water installations
    Patent number: 4065935
    Abstract: An articulated joint for a deep water installation in which two structural members are connected by replaceable flexible tendons to which there is access from one of the structural members to permit a pressure bottle to be fitted for receiving for replacement any selected one of the tendons after release of this tendon from the other structural member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 1976
    Date of Patent: January 3, 1978
    Assignee: Taylor Woodrow Construction Limited
    Inventors: Reginald Edward Dowton Burrow, David Edmund Plaskitt
  • Nuclear reactors
    Patent number: 4033815
    Abstract: In a nuclear reactor installation comprising a fluid-cooled nuclear heat source within a primary pressure vessel, this latter and also auxiliary facilities including new and spent fuel stores are enveloped together within an outer envelope which is designed to afford protection from external missiles; but within this envelope the auxiliary facilities are isolated from the primary pressure vessel by pressure tight structure which, with the major part of the outer envelope, constitutes secondary containment means of the installation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 1975
    Date of Patent: July 5, 1977
    Assignees: Nuclear Power Company (Whetstone) Limited, Taylor Woodrow Construction Limited
    Inventors: John William Robert Webber, Anthony Charles Roberts
  • Seals
    Patent number: 4019749
    Abstract: A seal for maintaining closure between a hollow cylindrical member and an end member closing the cylindrical member, the seal accommodating radial movement of the cylindrical member and movement of the end member in the direction at right angles to such radial movement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 1975
    Date of Patent: April 26, 1977
    Assignee: Taylor Woodrow Construction Limited
    Inventors: Peter Dawson, Charles Jack Barrett
  • Prestressed concrete boiler closure
    Patent number: 3965630
    Abstract: A prestressed concrete container having a chamber therein and a removable concrete member closing the chamber and held in its chamber-closing position by primary and secondary hold-down means each comprising members held fast with the concrete of the container and with the secondary hold-down members passing through the concrete of the closure member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 1974
    Date of Patent: June 29, 1976
    Assignee: Taylor Woodrow Construction, Limited
    Inventor: Anthony Charles Roberts