Material or article handling – Marine loading or unloading system – Marine vessel to/from shore
Patent
1997-05-12
1999-02-16
Young, Karen M.
Material or article handling
Marine loading or unloading system
Marine vessel to/from shore
4141414, 414803, 198594, B65G 6760
Patent
active
058713247
ABSTRACT:
A system and method for transporting material from an approach conveyor on to an elongate transport device such as a ship. The ship being positioned at a predetermined orientation, preferably on against a set of docking piers, relative to the approach conveyor. The system and method uses at least one slewing conveyor with a first end and a second end, the slewing conveyor being capable of pivoting about a pivot point and accepting material at the first end and conveying the material to the second end, the second end of the slewing conveyor being capable of discharging the material on to the ship while the ship is at the predetermined orientation. A bridge conveyor having a first end and a second end, the first end of the bridge conveyor being pivotally supported for pivotal motion about a point near the approach conveyor, and the second end of the bridge conveyor being moveably supported near the first end of the slewing conveyor, so that the second end of the bridge conveyor may move together with the first end of the slewing conveyor, so that material from the approach conveyor that has been delivered to the first end of the bridge conveyor may be delivered by the bridge conveyor to the second end of the slewing conveyor, so that the slewing conveyor may deliver the material to the ship.
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Hess Douglas
Pizarro Ramon L.
Young Karen M.
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