Spud arrangement for a dredge

Details Spud arrangement for a dredge Spud arrangement for a dredge

1983-05-06

1984-12-04

Crowder, Clifford D.

Excavating

Peat excavators

114230, E02F 388

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044855699

ABSTRACT:
An improved working vessel such as a dredger or the like of the type including a working apparatus at one end of the vessel body and a spud serving as a turning shaft member for the vessel body at the other end, includes the improvement wherein the turning staff member comprises an arm shaft extending toward the bottom of the sea from the vessel body at a downward inclination angle and a lowermost end member adapted to penetrate the bottom of the sea. The arm shaft is pivotally connected to the vessel body by way of a horizontally extending shaft at the upper end thereof and is hung up from a gantry fixedly mounted on the vessel body with the aid of a wire extending downwardly from the gantry.

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"Engineering News", p. 545, Mar. 12, 1914.

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