Rectractable chain connector

摘要

There is provided a mooring leg connector for use with a mooring chain part of a mooring leg extending up from the sea floor to moor a floating structure to the seabed, said connector having an elongate tubular element extending in the mooring leg 5 direction and a latch mechanism for fixation of the mooring chain part to the floating structure to be moored and preventing movement along the mooring leg in the direction of the seabed, the elongate tubular element has a passage for the mooring chain to pass through and comprises at the top a double articulation axis comprising a roll articulation and a pitch articulation wherein the roll and pitch articulations are coplanar. Fig. I 4b 5b 4a