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A hollow reinforced concrete sphere can be used as a container for transporting compressed gas, such as natural gas. Such containers can be interconnected and towed from one place to another by an ocean-going tugboat. Each container is formed with three band-like groups of reinforcing rings. Each gr

A hollow reinforced concrete sphere can be used as a container for transporting compressed gas, such as natural gas. Such containers can be interconnected and towed from one place to another by an ocean-going tugboat. Each container is formed with three band-like groups of reinforcing rings. Each group has its reinforcing rings disposed at right angles to the reinforcing rings in the other groups. The inner and outer surfaces of the container walls can be covered with a desired coating. In constructing the containers, they can be built at the water\s edge and then rolled into the water.

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Device for transporting gas, such as natural gas, which has been reduced in volume, such as by one of pressurization and liquefaction, comprising a buoyant hollow container in the form of a solid of rotation with a curved generatrix, said hollow container is a hollow sphere formed of reinforced conc

Device for transporting gas, such as natural gas, which has been reduced in volume, such as by one of pressurization and liquefaction, comprising a buoyant hollow container in the form of a solid of rotation with a curved generatrix, said hollow container is a hollow sphere formed of reinforced concrete, a wall forms said container having an outside surface and an inside surface with at least a watertight coating deposited on the outside surface, three band-like groups of reinforcing members are positioned in said wall for reinforcing said container, each of said groups comprises a plurality of rings disposed in spaced parallel relation with the rings in each said group intersecting the rings in the other said groups at right angles, said groups comprise a first said group, a second said group and a third said group, said first group located in the middle region of said wall of said container and said second and third groups are arranged at a number of locations inwardly and outwardly of said first group.