Buoys – rafts – and aquatic devices – Buoy – For mooring a vessel
Patent
1986-07-15
1988-04-05
Peters, Jr., Joseph F.
Buoys, rafts, and aquatic devices
Buoy
For mooring a vessel
114230, B63B 2202
Patent
active
047354720
ABSTRACT:
Mooring system comprising a column (2) tensioned between a sea bottom anchor (3) and a buoyant body (5-8) said column having (an) additional mass(es) (11,12,13,14,27) at the vibration node or nodes of the second or (N+1).sup.th bending vibration node(s) above the wave period while keeping the periods of the higher modes of bending vibration below or in the area of the smaller waves.
REFERENCES:
patent: 3602174 (1971-08-01), Gorman
patent: 3804210 (1974-04-01), Erickson
patent: 3978804 (1976-09-01), Beynet et al.
patent: 4176986 (1979-12-01), Taft et al.
Peters Jr. Joseph F.
Single Buoy Moorings Inc.
Sotelo Jesus D.
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