Abstract: A tensioner, for clamping cables, flexible pipes or bars and moving them forwards in a controlled manner, includes at least two conveyors, each intended to displace one or more clamping members. The conveyors each attached to a main frame element. A selective number of the conveyors can be combined using standard connection elements.

Abstract: A transport vehicle for large, heavy loads includes a number of modules coupled one behind the other, each with a loading platform which can be moved by sets of wheels and a drive for conveying the transport vehicle. The width of the modules corresponds to half the width of an ISO container (approx. 1215 mm) and the modules can also be coupled next to one another. This has the considerable advantage that the maximum track width is no longer limited by the width of the modules. As a result, the transport vehicle for large, heavy loads can be given any desired width without the modules becoming too large to handle.

Abstract: A method for laying a pipeline on a surface located under water such as a deep sea bed. The pipeline is held fixedly by tensioners having tensioning elements each extending between a clamping member engaging on the pipeline and a support member connected to a vessel. Tensioning is accomplished by sets of endless clamping bands which apply a braking action to the pipeline. A set of clamping jaws is clamped fixedly to the pipeline and moves along with the pipeline from a starting position to a releasing position. As a set of clamping jaws is clamped to the pipeline, another set of clamping jaws is released from the pipeline and returned to a starting position to continually repeat the cycle of holding and releasing of the pipeline.