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A support system is provided for a tank for the storage of fluid media under pressure which tank has its top, bottom and side walls each made up of a series of parallel outwardly convex lobes. The bottom supports of the support system comprise A-frame cradles that are secured to external structure,

A support system is provided for a tank for the storage of fluid media under pressure which tank has its top, bottom and side walls each made up of a series of parallel outwardly convex lobes. The bottom supports of the support system comprise A-frame cradles that are secured to external structure, and have traylike saddles at their apices in which rest blocks of load-bearing heat-insulating material shaped at their tops to fit into interlobe nodal recesses of the tank bottom. When each heat-insulating block is in correct positional relationship with the respective tank bottom recess, the tray in which it rests is filled with synthetic plastics material which sets to anchor the block in place. The support system also comprises top and bottom locating keys which likewise are located at interlobe nodes of the tank top and bottom walls, each consisting of an extension piece or tongue projecting from an interlobe node to engage external support structure. There may be top locating keys at every interlobe node of the tank top but only one central key at the tank bottom.

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A support system for a tank of which at least the bottom wall is made up of a series of outwardly convex lobes that are elongated in one horizontal direction so as to form a series of parallel interlobe nodal recesses between the lobes, said support system comprising a plurality of support assemblie

A support system for a tank of which at least the bottom wall is made up of a series of outwardly convex lobes that are elongated in one horizontal direction so as to form a series of parallel interlobe nodal recesses between the lobes, said support system comprising a plurality of support assemblies under the tank, each support assembly consisting of a pedestal upstanding from external support structure below the tank, and a block of load-bearing heat-insulating material supported on said pedestal and tapering upwardly to an apex at its top which is shaped to fit contiguously into an interlobe nodal recess of the tank bottom, said pedestal having at its bottom a base secured to said external support structure and further having at its top a tray-like saddle with a horizontal floor in which the bottom of said block rests, with synthetic plastics material filling said saddle tray and in which said bottom of said block is embedded, the width of said bottom of said block, in the horizontal direction at right angles to the longitudinal direction of said parallel lobes forming the bottom of the tank, being less than the width in the same direction of said tray-like saddle so as to allow for a degree of misalignment between said pedestal and the interlobe recess of the tank bottom.