Patents Assigned to Sofec, Inc.
  • Swivel arrangement for single anchor leg mooring buoy
    Patent number: 3942204
    Abstract: A single anchor leg type single point mooring and cargo transfer buoy has a load-carrying central shaft pipe for anchoring on the sea bottom and having a plurality of structurally segregated transfer chambers about which rotatable housings are sealingly mounted. Cargo vessel piping connects with these rotatable housings which communicate with the sea floor piping through connections extending longitudinally through the central shaft pipe and through apertures in the central shaft pipe wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 1975
    Date of Patent: March 9, 1976
    Assignee: Sofec, Inc.
    Inventor: Robert H. Gruy