Buoys – rafts – and aquatic devices – Buoy – For mooring a vessel
Reexamination Certificate
2000-03-24
2001-06-12
Sotelo, Jesus D. (Department: 3617)
Buoys, rafts, and aquatic devices
Buoy
For mooring a vessel
C114S230100
Reexamination Certificate
active
06244920
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The invention relates to an assembly for mooring a body, floating on a water mass, to a mooring point—such as a floating buoy, a mooring tower, a quay or another floating body, comprising the combination of at least one rigid arm which, in the moored position, lies above the water surface, a rigid connecting element connected therewith by means of a pivot point and being at rest essentially vertical, and a weight, connected to the assembly and producing, during movements of the floating body to and from the mooring point, resetting forces acting upon this floating body because the ends of the rigid arm and the connecting element respectively, which are opposite the first pivot point, are connected either to the mooring point on the one hand and the floating body on the other hand, or to the floating body on the one hand and the mooring point on the other hand.
DESCRIPTION OF THE PRIOR ART
Such an assembly is known in itself from EP 0 096 445 B1. According to this patent publication the weight which produces the resetting forces is provided on the rigid arm. This has as a drawback that the structure of this arm must be designed accordingly and in particular must be able to transfer the vertical forces, exerted thereon by the weight, to the pivot point between the rigid arm and the, at rest vertical, rigid connecting element, while the presence of the weight on or at the rigid arm has as a result that handling of this arm during the mooring and the loosening of the mooring respetively is cumbersome because, when the mooring installation is not in use, the lack of special supporting provisions will have as a result that the arm will disappear to below the water surface.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
The invention aims to obviate these drawbacks and realises this by a method which is as simple as it is effective, namely in that according to the invention the weight is connected to the rigid connecting element. It can be a separate structural element fixed to the connecting element or be integrated in the structure of the connecting element, and in both cases be embodied as a container to be filled with a ballasting liquid.
As a result of the measures according to the invention the rigid arm can be considerably simpler and lighter because this rigid arm must now only take up pulling forces and no bending stresses; the fact that the weight is transferred from the rigid arm to the connecting element in no way deteriorates the operation of the mooring system as such.
REFERENCES:
patent: 4606294 (1986-08-01), Di Tella et al.
patent: 4917038 (1990-04-01), Poldervaart et al.
patent: 219191 (1985-11-01), None
Bluewater Terminal Systems N.V.
Karmali Rashida A.
Sotelo Jesus D.
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