Cable handling apparatus

US4828223A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Geco AS · NO

Inventors

• Michael Russell · Kirkland, US
• Einar Gjestrum · Oslo, NO

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 5, 1987
• Grant date: May 9, 1989
• Expiry date: Oct 5, 2007

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G01V1/3843
• WIPO field: Handling
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A cable handling apparatus draws in a cable, such as a seismic streamer, along a generally linear path and feeds the cable to a winch which winds in the cable from the apparatus under constant tension.