Transportation of submerged cargo

Details Transportation of submerged cargo Transportation of submerged cargo

1996-09-30

1998-09-22

Sotelo, Jesus D.

Ships

Building

Freighters

114 73, B63B 3530

Patent

active

058099220

ABSTRACT:
A shipshaped vessel adapted to transport cargo, in an arrangement: to retard free fall of slurry kind cargo loading pivotally mounted clamshell bucket halves, to transport slurry in clamshell buckets immersed below sea surface, to moor above a ballast-ladened dock immersed at a terminal, to angularly open clamshell halves to discharge slurry upon porous hoppers atop the lock, with the vessel departed deballast the dock to buoyantly surface hoppers to drain off water, to remotely open hopper bottomed gate valves to selectively load conveyor belts for cargo discharge into terminal hopper.

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patent: 1442055 (1923-01-01), Dunbar

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