Material or article handling – Marine loading or unloading system – Marine vessel to marine vessel
Patent
1988-08-19
1991-06-04
Valenza, Joseph E.
Material or article handling
Marine loading or unloading system
Marine vessel to marine vessel
4141398, 4141406, B63B 2700
Patent
active
050209566
ABSTRACT:
A floating, barge unloader system by which open hopper barges containing granular materials are rapidly unloaded by picking up, rotating the barge and dumping its contents. The open, loaded hopper barge is positioned above a lowered barge lifting platform and secured to it by latch beams and hydraulic clamps. Compressed air is released into the ballast tanks of the barge lifting platform, forcing the ballast water from the tanks, causing the barge lifting platform with the barge secured on it to rise along guide rails. Hydraulically operated, rotating arms affixed to the support structure upon which the guide assembly is mounted attach to the barge lifting platform and rotate the barge lifting platform with the mounted barge and up and about the guide assembly, including pivot elements located along the sides of said support structure during the pivoting of the barge/platform up approximately one hundred angular degrees. The contents of the open hopper barge are dumped onto conveyor(s), which can be situated in the support structure. Once the open hopper barge is emptied, the barge lifting platform with the emptied barge is returned to an upright position, and the hydraulically operated arms and latch beams and hydraulic clamps are released. The ballast tanks of the barge lifting platform are then flooded, causing the barge lifting platform to sink along the guide assembly, below the floating level of the emptied barge. The empty open hopper barge is then flaoted free from the barge lifting platform.
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Margrif Design Corporation
Milef Boris
Pugh C. Emmett
Valenza Joseph E.
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