DEVICE FOR HYDRAULIC HANDLING AND CORRESPONDING HANDLING METHOD

摘要

The invention concerns a hydraulic handling device (1) comprising: first and second half-bands (3, 4), designed to be assembled about a pipe element (2) with an adapting air gap (5) enabling the band (3, 4) to be clamped along a direction X-X'; a handling member. Said device comprises retaining means (11) for countering the deformation of the pipe element (2) under the clamping effect, said retaining means (11) being capable of taking: a first configuration, wherein they counter the centrifugal radial deformation, and a second configuration, wherein they counter the centripetal radial deformation along the main direction X-X'.