Suspension system for a low temperature tank

US4300354A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Messerschmitt-Boelkow-Blohm Gesellschaft mit beschraenkter Haftung · DE

Inventors

• Wolfgang Buchs · Valley, DE
• Martin Mueller · Seewald, DE
• Werner Malburg · Ottobrunn, DE
• Albert Seidel · Höhenkirchen-Siegertsbrunn, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jan 30, 1980
• Grant date: Nov 17, 1981
• Expiry date: Jan 30, 2000

Classification

• Technology area (CPC F): Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
• CPC primary: F17C2223/033
• WIPO field: Mechanical elements
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A low temperature tank is suspended in an outer shell or container by a pality of straps of fiber compound materials. Each strap comprises a plurality of individual strap elements arranged in series. The strap elements are made of different fibers whereby the strap element closest to the tank is made of a fiber material having the lowest heat expansion coefficient as compared to the heat expansion coefficient of the other elements of a strap further away from the tank. Preferably the strap elements are thermally insulated from each other. In that case the strap elements need not necessarily be made of fiber materials having different heat expansion coefficients.