Patent ID: 7530766

Claim:
Device for laying tubular pipes from a working platform the pipes, being laid by successively connecting, at the said working platform, pipe sections which are oriented in a direction between an inclined direction and a vertical direction, the device comprising: a lower retaining device operable to retain a pipe, and a lower securing device operable to support the lower retaining device at the platform, an upper retaining device operable to retain the pipe and operable to move translationally toward or away from the lower retaining device, the upper and lower retaining devices each including elements operable to retain the pipe sections from inside the pipe sections, an upper securing device to which the lower retaining device can be coupled through a pipe section to be connected, in such a way as to release the lower securing device and to be able to secure thereto the upper retaining device after the pipe section to be connected has been connected and submerged.