Patent
1974-09-30
1976-02-17
Spar, Robert J.
214 14, B65G 6758
Patent
active
039386767
ABSTRACT:
This disclosure relates to a floating unloading installation for unloading lighters and includes two pontoons which are secured together in fixed transverse spaced relation with the spacing between the pontoons being sufficient to accommodate between the pontoons a conventional lighter for movement therebetween, the pontoons being connected together by connecting means which includes a tranverse bridge and the bridge having mounted thereon in balanced relation for swinging movement generally across the space between the pontoons to assure the complete unloading of a lighter disposed between the pontoons, the digging means including first conveying means for delivering material to the bridge, the bridge having second conveying means for delivering material to one of the pontoons, the one pontoon carrying a vertical conveyor which is mounted in a tower forming a part of the bridge, and there being carried by the tower for swinging movement a distributing conveyor adapted to receive material from the vertical conveyor and for distributing material into a hold of a ship.
REFERENCES:
patent: 48495 (1865-06-01), Taggart
patent: 1584496 (1926-05-01), Verhoeff
patent: 3469715 (1969-09-01), Bocchietti
patent: 3515086 (1970-06-01), Auzins
Abraham George F.
Spar Robert J.
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