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Article: Texas Inventors Develop Armored Seabed Laid Seismic Cable
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- February 28, 2007
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ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 28 -- Frederick C. Sawin of Houston, Roy W. James of Katy, Texas, Karl J. Schuler of Sugar Land, Texas, and Gary J. Zernia of Spring, Texas, have developed an armored seabed laid seismic cable and a method and an apparatus for manufacturing same.
According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, the invention relates to a "method for wrapping continuous strands of steel wire about a seismic cable including interconnected sensor sections and conductor sections where a cross sectional diameter of the sensor section is at least four times that of the conductor section. Two layers of armoring are provided with a first layer wrapped in a first angular direction opposite ...