摘要 |
1,135,876. Tank bottoms. KIELER HOWALDTSWERKE A.G. 20 March, 1967 [1 April, 1966], No. 12835/67. Headings B7A, B7M and B7S]. In a tank bottom (the internal non-load bearing shell of a thermally insulated tank for liquefied gas) comprising dished plate elements 2 joined along their edges to form expansion joints 3 and drainage flow channels 16, the junction between the mutually perpendicular expansion joints 3 at the channel 16 is provided by an insert member 5 comprising a plate 12 having one edge in the form of a Z-shaped flange 13 corresponding to half the expansion joint of inverted channel section 3 formed between two adjacent dished plate elements 2 and an expansion fold 15 of inverted channel section in the opposite edge portion 14. |