Founding System
Disclosed is a founding system for mounting in the interior of a structure having rounded interior walls, such as a coker. The founding system includes one or more generally horizontal support layers. In one example, each horizontal support layer has four support beams and four connection elements mounting the support beams. Each connection element has a flat edge tangential to the rounded interior walls of the structure, a foot extending from the flat edge to abut the interior of said rounded interior walls, and two mounts for mounting two of the support beams at an angle of about 90 degrees.
1 . A founding system for mounting in the interior of a structure having rounded interior walls, said founding system comprising:
a generally horizontal support layer comprising n support beams, n connection elements, each of said n connection elements comprising a flat edge tangential to the rounded interior walls of said structure, a foot extending from the flat edge to abut the interior of said rounded interior walls, and two mounts for mounting two of said n support beams at an angle of about (n−2)*180/n degrees.
2 . The founding system of claim 1 , further comprising n ladders, each interconnected with one of said n connection elements, to extend with rungs parallel to the flat edge of said one of said n connection elements, along said rounded interior walls.
3 . The founding system of claim 1 , further comprising 2 n ladders, each interconnected with one of said n support beams proximate to each of said n connection elements, to extend with rungs parallel to said n support beams.
4 . The founding system of claim 3 , wherein each of the 2 n ladders has at least one support jacks mounted thereto, each support jack having a flat foot to abut the interior of said rounded structure.
5 . The founding system of claim 1 , wherein each connection element further comprises a foot having the flat edge to abut the interior of said rounded structure.
6 . The founding system of claim 1 , wherein the generally horizontal support layer comprises four support beams, four connection elements, and wherein the mounts mount the support beams at approximately 90 degrees relative to one another.
7 . The founding system of claim 1 , further comprising a second generally horizontal support layer mounted below the generally horizontal support layer, the second generally horizontal support layer comprising, a further n support beams and a further n connection elements.