COLLECTING DEVICE FOR SUBMARINE OIL LEAKAGE

摘要

A device for collecting oil leakage from formations beneath a body of water constructed of flexible, impervious sheet material for compact storage that can be readily erected for use by inflation. The device has a pair of predetermined upper and lower torus-shaped envelopes connected by a frusto-conical shroud with the lower envelope being of a larger diameter and adapted to be filled with a non-buoyant material to distend the same and to open the shroud to its frusto-conical form in circumscribing relation to a point of oil leakage. The upper envelope is relatively smaller and is adapted to be inflated with air to make it buoyant and to circumscribe an opening having a discharge conduit extended therefrom for transferring the oil leaking from the bottom of the body of water internally of the collecting device to the surface.