Patent ID: 7752989

Claim:
Deep water high capacity anchoring system, which includes a metal anchoring structure in a preponderant conical form, provided with a cable, cast on an ocean floor from a handling ship, provided with a pumping system that supplies one of the extremities of the anchoring structure, with a flow of liquid, through a hose, and additionally characterized by the anchoring structure presenting four basic and main functions: 1-directs the upward movement of an eroded substrate under said anchoring structure, 2-offers little resistance to fixing the anchor, 3-at the same time offering high resistance to extraction, 4-propitiating its own descending vertical displacement using its own weight and an external shape thereof, which is generally conical; by virtue of these functions, a layout of the anchoring structure complies with certain minimum parameters, including presenting a conical circular shape, or pyramidal shape with no fewer than three faces; an angle (φ) of placement of the external surfaces of the anchor structure with respect to horizontal being within a range of 30° to 60°; said anchor structure being provided with a central body made up by a segment of metal tubing that extends vertically from an apex of said anchor structure up to a height corresponding to its inverted base; in the central body, coincident with the apex, a directional conical tip is attached to the anchoring structure, which is provided with a jetting device; the other extremity of said central body is provided with an anchor ring and a means for coupling the hose; the anchor ring will be fixed to the cable; a fluid is injected into the other extremity of the central body structure, through the hose, through the inside of the main tubular body, and is expelled, in the form of a continuous and directed jet, through the jetting device; said jetting device comprising the directional conical tip, which is metallic and connects to the lower extremity of the central body, sealing it; the directional conical tip is provided with a series of openings or nozzles placed perpendicular to the main axis of the central body, along the entire perimeter of the jetting device; simultaneously, a second series of openings or nozzles placed along the entire perimeter of the jetting device, which have their outlets turned towards the apex, so as to release the fluid in an ascending direction parallel to the lower external surface of the anchor structure; the pumping system consists of pumps and the hose; the pumps may be located in the handling ship itself, or submerged; the liquid pumped by the pump may have a density that is greater than, equal to, or less than that of sea water.