SUSPENSION DEVICE FOR AN OIL TRANSFERRING PIPE OR HOSE

摘要

The invention relates to a suspension device for an oil conveying pipe or hose for loading or unloading of a vessel. The device is cardanic, and during unloading the oil is conducted towards the cardan centre from one or both sides along a horizontal axis through one or more pipe swivels and possibly also bearings. Thereafter, the oil flow is diverted and is conducted back towards the cardan centre along the second cardan axis. After having passed the next pipe swivel the oil flow is diverted to the third cardan axis, and in order to relieve this pipe swivel bearings may be arranged coaxially with the pipe swivel. The pipe bend is in this case suspended in brackets attached to a cylindrical load cell, which in turn pivots in a beam structure which is an integral part of the pipe structure and which pivots about the first cardan axis. The load cell is able to register the hose tension.