Containment vessels

Claim 1

IN A CONTAINMENT VESSEL SYSTEM, THE NEW AND USEFUL RESULT CHARACTERIZED BY CONTAINMENT AND CONTROL OF ALL LEAKAGE FROM THE INTERIOR OF THE CONTAINMENT VESSEL AND PHYSICALLY ATTAINED BY: A CONTAINMENT VESSEL COMPRISING AN OUTER, RELATIVELY THICK, PRESSURE-CONTAINMENT SHELL, A RELATIVELY THIN, CONTINUOUS, INNER LINER DISPOSED WITHIN THE SPACE ENCLOSED BY THE OUTER SHELL AND PROVIDING AN INTERIOR COMPARTMENT FOR THE VESSEL, AND A CONTINUOUS FORMED SHEET LOCATED BETWEEN THE LINER AND THE SHELL AND SURROUNDING THE LINER, FOR TRANSFERRING HIGH PRESSURES EXERTED UPON THE LINER FROM SAID COMPARTMENT, TO SAID SHELL, SAID CONTINUOUS FORMED SHEET BEING ATTACHED INTERMITTENTLY TO SAID LINER AND RUNNING BACK AND FORTH BETWEEN THE INNER SURFACE OF THE OUTER SHELL AND THE OUTER SURFACE OF THE INNER LINER, SAID SHEET FORMING WITH THE LINER AN ANNULAR SPACE AROUND SAID COMPARTMENT BETWEEN THE LINER AND THE FORMED SHEET; MEANS FOR EVACUATING AND COMPRESSING GASES AND VAPORS FROM THE ANNULAR SPACE; A FIRST CONDUIT MEANS FOR CONDUCTING GASES AND VAPORS FROM THE ANNULAR SPACE TO THE EVACUATING AND COMPRESSING MEANS; AND A SECOND CONDUIT MEANS FOR CONDUCTING THE COMPRESSED GASES AND VAPORS TO SAID INTERIOR COMPARTMENT OF THE VESSEL, WHEREBY ANY GAS OR VAPOR LEAKAGE FROM THE INTERIOR COMPARTMENT OF THE VESSEL TO THE ANNULAR SPACE IS RETURNED TO THE INTERIOR COMPARTMENT OF THE VESSEL.