Ships – Mooring device – Boom type
Reexamination Certificate
2006-03-07
2006-03-07
Basinger, Sherman (Department: 3617)
Ships
Mooring device
Boom type
C114S230230, C114S230260
Reexamination Certificate
active
07007623
ABSTRACT:
A mooring yoke and method for using same to connect or disconnect a shuttle vessel to a body, such as an LNG liquefaction and storage vessel (LNG/FPSO). The yoke is pivotably connected at one end to the LNG/FPSO. The other or tip end of the yoke includes a buoyant element and a male connector element to be received in a female receiver element carried by the shuttle vessel. A tension element is arranged and designed to run through the male connector element and to be clamped on the shuttle vessel. A yoke windlass, alternatively mounted on the yoke or the LNG/FPSO pulls on the tension element thereby pulling the tip end of the yoke out of the sea and the male connector element into the female receiver element. A locking mechanism selectively locks the male element to the female receiver.
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Drawings showing a tower yoke system supplied for the Chinese National Oil Company by Sofec, Inc. in 1999.
Boatman L. Terry
Lindblade Stephen P.
McCollum, legal representative Jane C.
Andrews & Kurth LLP
Basinger Sherman
Bush, Esq. Gary L.
FMC Technologies Inc.
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