Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention allow a collection of users (referred to herein as a “forum”) to communicate and exchange content items as part of an interactive communication system (referred to herein as the “Reel service”). Each user has a mobile device (e.g., a mobile phone) running an application (referred to herein as the “Reel application”). The Reel application running in each mobile device is in communication with a server infrastructure. The Reel application implements client-side functions of the Reel service while the server infrastructure implements server-side functions of the Reel service. Users of a reel can create and share content items while simultaneously being able to monitor content being captured by other users through a single user interface, even on a mobile device where screen real estate is limited.

Abstract: The present invention is a new and improved bladder for use with a piston accumulator apparatus, system and method of using same that provides a dispersion tube in the bladder to allow fluid to be communicated under a vacuum from the bladder to the accumulator seawater chamber and back again.

Abstract: Disclosed is a lifting apparatus for highly mounted equipment, which includes a main body installed at a predetermined height and having a hollow drum around which a wire rope is wound and a driving motor installed to give a rotation force to the drum; a moving body suspended from the wire rope and having an equipment coupling unit provided at a lower end thereof; a coupling unit located at a lower portion of the main body and having an accommodation structure with an open lower portion to be coupled to the moving body and a stopper installed at the accommodation structure to fix a coupled state of the moving body; and an upper contact portion and a lower contact portion respectively installed at the main body and the moving body to contact each other when the moving body ascends and is coupled to the main body by winding the wire rope, wherein the drum is disposed to lie down in the main body, wherein the wire rope unwound from the drum passes through the hollow of the drum and is connected to the moving bod

Abstract: Reels or spools for carrying wires or the likes, where the flanges of these reels or spools have corrugations with undercuts selectively formed thereon, are provided. These undercuts may aid in the molding process, such as injection molding or compression molding with substantially rigid molds, among other things. The reels or spools may also have supports dispersed between the corrugations to provide additional structural integrity to the flange. These supports can be mid-plane supports between the corrugations and may be positioned closer to the inside surface or to the outside surface of the flange, and the supports may form an angle with the corrugations.

Abstract: Disclosed is a laying device (1) of the tensioner type for the controlled clamping and moving of an elongated body, intended to be carried by a laying tower. The laying device (1) includes an annular frame (10) including two mobile frame parts (101) that each include at least one guiding box (11) and that are assembled to an element (13) for the fastening of the laying device (1) to the tower (2), through a main pivot element (14). The main pivot element (14) defines a single main rotation axis (14?), around which the mobile frame parts (101) are rotationally operable between the closed/open configurations.

Abstract: A method for animating a map resource is provided, the method includes receiving a plurality of Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) from a third party website, the plurality of URLs comprising one or more attributes; receiving a user selection to create an animation sequence of one or more of the attributes; querying a current value of the one or more attributes from an external resource and returning the queried value; receiving, from the user, a first keyframe and a second keyframe for the animation sequence; interpolating one or more additional keyframes with assigned values; and creating the animation sequence based on the first keyframe, the second keyframe, and the one or more additional keyframes.

Abstract: A tensioner for the controlled clamping and moving of an elongated body (A), in particular for an installation for laying pipelines, umbilicals or cables, includes a frame carrying at least two guiding boxes (3) that are arranged about an axis of symmetry (4), for clamping a segment of the elongated body (A). The guiding boxes (3) according to the invention are mounted mobile on their support frame through operating elements (5) including: (i) at least one linear actuator (5) including an operating cylinder extended by spring element, which operating cylinder and which spring element each have a longitudinal extension axis, the extension axes being oriented coaxially, or at least approximately coaxially, relative to each other, so as to form together the extension axis of the linear actuator; and (ii) programmable elements for controlling the operating cylinder in extension.

Abstract: Hose reel with a drum, driven in an appropriate manner by a motor, and provided with a hose through which a medium can flow, which hose is connected to a tool at one far end provided with a control to operate this tool, i.e. to start and to stop it, and whose other far end is, either directly or indirectly, connected to a supply line, characterized in that the hose reel includes a detection module, which has a detection body, a signal sensor and a processing unit. The detection body can detect every flow and/or interruption of the flow of a medium resulting from the operation of the control, and generate an electrical pulse or pulses with a signal sensor, which are interpreted by the processing unit on the basis of a pulse scheme to control operation of the motor.

Abstract: In a subsea system where subsea devices are operated using a pressurized fluid from one or more accumulators, the method of providing flow of pressurized fluid to operate a device which is greater than the flow from an accumulator providing the flow, comprising discharging the accumulator to drive one or more motors, driving one or more pumps by the one or more motors, the one or more pumps having a larger displacement than the one or more motors such that the one or more pump outputs a greater volume of fluid than the motor consumes, and delivering the output of the one or more pumps to operated the subsea device.

Abstract: The method of mooring buoyant equipment at the surface of a body of water in a controlled position using a single line by connecting a first line from the buoyant equipment to a first diameter drum on a subsea mooring tower, connecting the first diameter drum to a second diameter drum, connecting a second line from the second diameter drum to a weight, such that when the depth of the body of water changes the tension on the first line remains the same and the vertical distance travelled by the weight is less than the change in the depth of the body of water.

Abstract: The method of supplying non-twisted cable from a non-rotating container comprising supplying a cable to a first spool in a first position by supplying the cable to the first spool in a direction generally parallel to the centerline of the first spool and wrapping the cable around the first spool so that one twist will be applied to the cable with every circumferential wrap, transferring the first spool to a second position without cutting the cable, transferring a second spool to the first position, supplying the cable to a the second spool in the first position by supplying the cable to the second spool in a direction generally parallel to the centerline of the second spool and wrapping the cable around the second spool so that one twist will be applied to the cable with every circumferential wrap, transferring the first spool to a third position and transferring the second spool to the second position, cutting the cable between the second and the third positions, delivering the cable from the third position

Abstract: The method of attaching a pulling head to two or more wires or cables for installation in a conduit, comprising providing a first area for attaching the pulling head, placing two or more wire or cable supply spools on a first side of the first area, placing a receiving spool on the opposite or second side of the first area, feeding a portion of the wires or cables from the wire or cable supply spools onto the receiving spool, placing a terminating table in the first area below the wires or cables, cutting the wires or cables at staggered length from the receiving spool, stripping a portion of the covering from the wires or cables from the outer diameter of the two or more wires or cables, installing a connection onto each of the two or more wires or cables.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are devices for transferring mechanical force from an electric motor to a fishing reel. Also disclosed are method of using devices to transferring mechanical force to a fishing reel. In an exemplary embodiment, the device includes a body that has at least one groove and at least one slot that are configured for removably engaging a crank arm of a fishing reel. The fishing reel crank arm includes a first end attached to a crank knob arm assembly for attaching the crank arm to the reel. The crank arm also has a second end that includes a crank handle shaft projecting from said second end. The body includes, at the first side, a groove defined therein for receiving the crank arm and a slot defined along an edge of the body for removably engaging the crank handle shaft.

Abstract: A tensioner for the controlled clamping and moving of an elongated body (A), in particular for an installation for laying pipelines, umbilicals or cables, includes a frame carrying at least two guiding boxes (3) that are arranged about an axis of symmetry (4), for clamping a segment of the elongated body (A). The guiding boxes (3) according to the invention are mounted mobile on their support frame through operating elements (5) including: (i) at least one linear actuator (5) including an operating cylinder extended by spring element, which operating cylinder and which spring element each have a longitudinal extension axis, the extension axes being oriented coaxially, or at least approximately coaxially, relative to each other, so as to form together the extension axis of the linear actuator; and (ii) programmable elements for controlling the operating cylinder in extension.

Abstract: This disclosure describes, in part, a reel assembly configured to store and automatically retract flexible medical tubing. The reel assembly may include a constant torque spring configured to bias a rotational force on a spool. The spool may have clusters of teeth alternative with tooth-less areas. The reel assembly may also comprise a pawl with an internal spring configured to interact with the clusters of teeth and tooth-less areas in order to prevent/permit retracting a portion of fed medical tubing by the constant torque spring.

Abstract: An apparatus of the present disclosure has a frame, which has a receiving shelf and horizontal support beam respectively coupled to opposing ends of a vertical center beam and at least one leg coupled to the frame adapted such that when the leg is actuated, the frame stands upright and a fishing rod may be supported by the receiving shelf and the horizontal support beam. The apparatus further has a hitch coupled to the frame arranged and positioned such that when the at least one leg is not actuated, the frame may be coupled to a vehicle.

Abstract: An electric generator (1) for the conversion of energy from a renewable energy source, such as wind energy, into electrical energy to be inserted into a local or remote network (R), which comprises a rotary electric machine (2) provided with means (3) for drawing energy from the renewable source and for converting into electrical energy, first control means (4) for regulating the functioning parameters of the machine (2), second control means (5) for regulating the parameters of the electrical energy generated by the machine (2), and connection means (6) for electrically connecting the second control means (5) to the network (R), wherein the machine (2) is positioned in a space (V) placed at a predetermined distance (h) with respect to a base (B) that is fixed or anchorable with respect to the ground (T).

Abstract: A system is provided for drilling and/or servicing a well bore using continuous lengths of coiled tubing in which a turntable assembly rotates a coiled tubing reel assembly and a counter balance system about the well bore such that the coiled tubing is rotated while in the wellbore. A coiled tubing injector may be provided on a separate turntable assembly or on the same turntable assembly as the reel assembly. A swivel support assembly may be provided for managing operation lines associated with the system.

Abstract: A movement control system for a drilling plant includes a first hydraulic circuit with an inlet duct and an outlet duct for a working fluid, a pumping device of reversible type promoting the circulation of the fluid, first electric machine mechanically coupled to the pumping device to promote circulation of the fluid in the first hydraulic circuit, wherein the first electric machine is connected to an electric circuit connectable to the net or to an electric accumulator. The first electric machine selectively operates as an electric motor to promote circulation of the fluid in a first sense and to drive the actuating means during the rise of the drilling head, and as an electric generator upon fluid flow in a second, opposite sense during the lowering of the drilling head to inject in the network or in the accumulator the electric power generated by the first machine.

Abstract: A water toy comprises an elongated buoyant body, a front attachment point, a weighted figurine, and a fin. The elongated buoyant body has a nose, a tail, a top surface, and a bottom surface. The top surface and the bottom surface meet at an outer edge. The front attachment point is disposed upon the bottom surface at the nose. The front attachment point comprises an aperture. The weighted figurine is disposed upon the top surface toward the nose. The fin extends from the bottom surface toward the tail. The water toy may comprise a rear attachment point for attaching a fish hook or lure and/or a water foil disposed upon the bottom surface at the tail.