EP0274570A2 - Radeau de sauvetage modulaire - Google Patents

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EP0274570A2
EP0274570A2 EP87113094A EP87113094A EP0274570A2 EP 0274570 A2 EP0274570 A2 EP 0274570A2 EP 87113094 A EP87113094 A EP 87113094A EP 87113094 A EP87113094 A EP 87113094A EP 0274570 A2 EP0274570 A2 EP 0274570A2
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Joseph Walter Baughman
Arden Dale Bayless
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SMR Technologies Inc
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    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B63SHIPS OR OTHER WATERBORNE VESSELS; RELATED EQUIPMENT
    • B63CLAUNCHING, HAULING-OUT, OR DRY-DOCKING OF VESSELS; LIFE-SAVING IN WATER; EQUIPMENT FOR DWELLING OR WORKING UNDER WATER; MEANS FOR SALVAGING OR SEARCHING FOR UNDERWATER OBJECTS
    • B63C9/00Life-saving in water
    • B63C9/02Lifeboats, life-rafts or the like, specially adapted for life-saving
    • B63C9/04Life-rafts
    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B63SHIPS OR OTHER WATERBORNE VESSELS; RELATED EQUIPMENT
    • B63BSHIPS OR OTHER WATERBORNE VESSELS; EQUIPMENT FOR SHIPPING 
    • B63B27/00Arrangement of ship-based loading or unloading equipment for cargo or passengers
    • B63B27/14Arrangement of ship-based loading or unloading equipment for cargo or passengers of ramps, gangways or outboard ladders ; Pilot lifts
    • B63B27/143Ramps
    • B63B2027/145Inflatable ramps
    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B63SHIPS OR OTHER WATERBORNE VESSELS; RELATED EQUIPMENT
    • B63CLAUNCHING, HAULING-OUT, OR DRY-DOCKING OF VESSELS; LIFE-SAVING IN WATER; EQUIPMENT FOR DWELLING OR WORKING UNDER WATER; MEANS FOR SALVAGING OR SEARCHING FOR UNDERWATER OBJECTS
    • B63C9/00Life-saving in water
    • B63C9/02Lifeboats, life-rafts or the like, specially adapted for life-saving
    • B63C9/04Life-rafts
    • B63C2009/042Life-rafts inflatable
    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B63SHIPS OR OTHER WATERBORNE VESSELS; RELATED EQUIPMENT
    • B63CLAUNCHING, HAULING-OUT, OR DRY-DOCKING OF VESSELS; LIFE-SAVING IN WATER; EQUIPMENT FOR DWELLING OR WORKING UNDER WATER; MEANS FOR SALVAGING OR SEARCHING FOR UNDERWATER OBJECTS
    • B63C9/00Life-saving in water
    • B63C9/02Lifeboats, life-rafts or the like, specially adapted for life-saving
    • B63C9/04Life-rafts
    • B63C2009/044Life-rafts covered

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  • This invention relates to liferafts and more particularly to liferafts configured for use on the high seas and for containing one or more individuals temporary physical support while awaiting rescue upon the high seas. More particularly, this invention relates to liferafts carried aboard vessels and configured for deployment, typically automatic deployment, during an emergency wherein the vessel faces sinking or the imminent threat of sinking.
  • Liferafts for effecting rescue and support of human life on the high seas are well-known. While early liferafts often took the form of a platform formed of lumber, logs or other floatable materials, more recently liferafts have come generally uniformly to be formed from fabric coated on one or both surfaces with a rubberizing compound and formed into a floatation structure.
  • this floatation structure includes one or more circumferential tubes and a floor.
  • the tubes typically are stacked vertically to form a wall of tubes characterized by an uppermost and lowermost tube and the floor typically is cementingly or vulcanizably adhered to the lowermost tube to preclude the entry of water into the liferaft between the floor and the lowermost tube.
  • liferafts typically include an insulation means the better to separate occupants of the raft from cold waters surrounding the raft by more than simply a single ply layer of rubberized fabric. So, modern liferafts typically have a double-walled bottom inflated to provide an insulation capability of where liferafts have a single ply bottom, these liferafts will also include a plurality of insulating floor sections that typically include an insulation pad formed of an insulating material such as foam.
  • Liferafts today may also include a canopy configured to provide a sheltering roof over the raft thereby at least partially protecting occupants of the raft from wind and wave.
  • these canopies include a center support within the raft configured to hold the canopy over the heads of occupants of the raft without the necessity for the occupants jointly raising arms to physically hold the canopy in place above their heads.
  • Liferafts today may also include an inflatable boarding ramp affixed by vulcanization or cementation to an external surface of the raft, functioning to facilitate boarding from deep, open waters.
  • liferafts today typically include at least one ballast means. These ballast means tend to lower the center of gravity of the liferaft and thereby reduce a tendency for the liferaft to tip over and/or tumble during conditions of strong waves and high winds.
  • liferafts It is the custom for liferafts to be formed as an integral unit; that is all, or nearly all of the necessary units of the raft subject to deterioration and/or failure have generally been co-attached permanently so that repair of one or more portions of the raft and its accessories can be quite difficult. Often unrepairable damage to one accessory can render the entire liferaft unuseable necessitating replacement.
  • the present invention provides a modular liferaft.
  • the modular liferaft of the invention includes a hull and floor assembly which comprises a plurality of generally vertically stacked inflatable tubular members defining an outer periphery of the raft, and a floor attached to a lowermost of the inflatable tubular members to preclude entry of water into the raft between the floor and the lowermost tubular member.
  • This floor may be either double-walled to provide an insulation capability or may be configured to accept floor sections configured to provide an insulation capability.
  • These floor sections in the purview of the invention, are removable.
  • a removable canopy is provided.
  • the removable canopy is supported by a separate removable support strut generally centerably positioned within the hull and floor assembly.
  • the support strut typically is an inflatable structure and typically includes a means for inflating this support strut.
  • a boarding ramp is provided for removable attachment to the exterior of the hull and floor assembly.
  • this boarding ramp is an inflatable structure.
  • a ballast means is provided in removably attachable to the hull and floor assembly.
  • the ballast means typically includes a pair of chambers defined by a partition within the ballast means.
  • the canopy and the ballast means are configured for generally peripheral attachment to the hull and floor assembly.
  • the ballast means also may include non-peripheral attachment to the floor such as might be employed to position and support a baffle within the ballast means.
  • the canopy support typically is retained to the hull and floor assembly in removable manner as are the floor sections and the boarding ramp.
  • the canopy typically also is retained in removable manner to the canopy support.
  • Attachment of the canopy, canopy support, floor sections, boarding ramp, and ballast system can be accomplished within and purview of the invention employing reusable fastening means such as snaps, Velcro®, grommets configured to accept ties where the ties are according, webbing straps, or the like, quarter-turn fasteners, and hooks, including swivel hooks, configured to engage grommets or D-rings.
  • reusable fastening means such as snaps, Velcro®, grommets configured to accept ties where the ties are according, webbing straps, or the like, quarter-turn fasteners, and hooks, including swivel hooks, configured to engage grommets or D-rings.
  • the detachable portions of the modular liferaft that is the canopy, canopy support, floor sections if necessary, boarding ramp, and ballast means can be detached from the hull and floor assembly for replacement or repair and the hull and floor assembly can remain in service utilizing replacement accessories during any such necessary service or repair. Further, scrapping of the hull and floor assembly does not necessarily mean scrapping of the accessories, as these may be reused on other raft and hull assemblies.
  • Figure 1 is an exploded view of a modular liferaft made in accordance with the invention.
  • the modular raft 10 includes a hull and floor assembly 12.
  • the hull and floor assembly is comprised of two major elements; one element being a plurality of inflatable tubular members designated in Figure 1 as an upper inflatable tubular member 14 and a lower inflatable tubular member 15, cooperating with a floor element 16.
  • the upper inflatable tubular member 14 and the lower inflatable tubular member 15 are generally positioned vertically one with respect to the next and co-attached typically employing well-known vulcanization or cementation techniques to prevent the passage of water therebetween.
  • the floor 16 and the lower inflatable tubular member 15 are typically co-attached in a similar manner precluding the passage of water therebetween and securing the floor 16 to the tubeless member 15 sufficiently to support loads imposed on the floor by occupants of the modular raft 10.
  • the inflatable tubular members 14, 15 and the floor 16 thereby operate to define a hull and floor assembly 12 or floatation vessel suitable for the containment of chattel goods and human life.
  • the inflatable tubular members 14, 15 may be compartmentalized and function to circumferentially surround the floor to define an open tub or boat-like basin. It is not necessarily that the inflatable tubular members 14, 15 define a structure having or equal or relatively equal sides, but may instead define a structure of any geometric configuration and proportion having suitable or conventional desired seagoing capabilities.
  • a canopy support strut 18 is provided.
  • a canopy 20 is also provided and is configured to be supported by the canopy support strut 18.
  • a plurality of floor sections 22 are provided of a configuration suitable for being received within the confines the hull and floor assembly 12.
  • a boarding ramp 24 is provided and is configured for mating attachment to the exterior of the hull and raft assembly 12.
  • a ballast means 26 is provided and is configured for attachment to the hull and floor assembly 12. The ballast means 26 typically is carried beneath the water level and therefore beneath the floor 16 of the hull and floor assembly 12.
  • the hull and floor assembly includes a plurality of canopy support strut attachments 30.
  • a plurality of attachments 38 are provided for retaining the boarding ramp 24 to the hull and floor assembly 12 in removable manner.
  • the attachments 38 are provided on an exterior surface of the hull and floor assembly 12 as shown in Figure 1.
  • a plurality of floor section 24 attachments 36 are provided retained to the floor 16 of the hull and floor assembly 12.
  • a plurality of canopy attachments 32 are provided on the hull and floor assembly 12.
  • the attachments 32 are spaced generally around a periphery of the hull and floor assembly 12 as defined by the upper tubular member 14.
  • ballast means attachments 34 are provided in generally a spaced relationship around a periphery of the hull and floor assembly 12 and typically are embodied on the lower tubular member 15 or upon an outer or underwater surface of the raft floor 16. Additionally ballast means attachments 34 ⁇ may be provided attached to the underwater or outside surface of the floor 16. These attachments 34 ⁇ are not spaced generally around the periphery of the hull and floor assembly 12 but rather are arranged in transverse fashion across the underwater surface of the floor 16 of the hull and floor assembly 12.
  • the canopy support strut 18 is typically an inflatable structure of generally tubular configuration.
  • the support strut 18 includes a mounting flange 39 including attachments 41.
  • the attachments 41 are configured for mating with the attachments 30 on the floor 16 of the hull and floor assembly 12 whereby the canopy support strut 18 is retained to the hull and floor assembly 12.
  • the canopy support strut 18 typically is inflatable and is inflated employing a transfer hose 52 which can be of any suitable or conventional hosing in nature.
  • the transfer hose 52 typically is attached to an inflatable portion of the hull and floor assembly 12 such as the upper tubular inflatable member 14.
  • brass couplers 53 or the like are used to join the transfer hose 52 to the hull and floor assembly 12 and the inflatable canopy support strut 18.
  • Other suitable or conventional hose fastening devices may be employed and such devices are well-known in the art.
  • the inflatable canopy support strut 18 may include a canopy attachment 40 adjacent an upper end.
  • the canopy 20 typically is formed of a plurality of panels 44 which may be attached one to the next.
  • the panels 44 can be pie-shaped segments or other suitable geometric configurations attached one to the next employing suitable or well-known means such as adhesive or vulcanization techniques, or stitching optionally reinforced with a webbing material.
  • the canopy 20 includes a plurality of attachments 45 positioned and configured to mate with attachments 32 carried by the hull and floor assembly 12. While these attachments 45 are shown as ties in Figure 1, these attachments could equally be webbing strips, slide-lip engagements snaps, or Velcro® fasteners.
  • Velcro® strips 46 as shown in Figure 1, snaps, or slide-lip engagements upon the canopy 20 and the hull and floor assembly 12 to assure against substantial movement of water between the canopy 20 and the hull and floor assembly 12 during operation of the modular liferaft.
  • the attachment of Velcro® strips as shown in Figure 1 can be accomplished employing adhesives and vulcanizable adhesives in well-known manner.
  • Additional attachments 45 ⁇ are provided on the canopy 20 and are configured and positioned for engaging the attachment 40 positioned at the upper end of the inflatable canopy support 18. This combination of attachments 40, 45 ⁇ can be ties and grommets, quarter-turn fasteners, or other suitable or conventional releasable fastening means.
  • the floor sections 22, if required, are typically formed of a foam core 48 surrounded by a shell 49.
  • the shell is typically configured to be sealed around edges thereof so as to preclude the movement of fluids such as seawater into the foam.
  • the foam 48 in Figure 1 is an open or closed cell polyurethane foam.
  • the floor sections 22 include attachments 47 positioned and configured for engaging the attachment 36 embodied on the floor 16 of the hull and floor assembly 12. The floor sections 22 are thereby removably retained to the hull and floor assembly 12. Where the floor 16 of the hull and floor assembly 12 is a double paneled floor, floor sections 22 may not be required in forming the modular liferaft 10 of the invention.
  • the boarding ramp 24 typically is formed as an inflatable structure such as a one including plurality of inflation tubes 56 as shown in Figure 1.
  • a plurality of attachments 57 are provided and arranged and configured for engaging the attachments 38 embodied on the hull and floor assembly 12.
  • These attachments 57, 38 can be of any suitable or conventional nature such as the ties and grommets depicted in Figure 1 could may be equally be swiveling hooks and D-rings, quarter-turn fasteners, or slide-lip engagements.
  • the ballast means 26 typically is formed of a plurality of generally geometrically such as pie-shaped panels 60. Customarily the ballast means 26 is divided by a baffle 62 into a plurality of compartments. The baffle typically is attached by incorporation into seams between the panels 60 but may be equally attached employing suitable or conventional techniques such as but not limited to stitching, vulcanization, or adhesives to the ballast means 26. Often stitching joinders are reinforced by the use of a webbing or the like.
  • the ballast means 26 includes a plurality of attachments 64, 64 ⁇ .
  • the attachments 64 are spaced in a generally regular manner about a periphery of the ballast means 26 and are spaced and configured for engaging the attachments 34 embodied on the periphery of the hull and floor assembly 12.
  • the attachments 64 ⁇ are generally configured and spaced to engage the attachments 34 ⁇ on the floor 16 of the hull and floor assembly 12. While the attachments 64, 64 ⁇ , 34, 34 ⁇ are shown as being grommets and ties or grommets and webbing in the embodiment of Figure 1, the attachment points equally could be swivel hooks and D-rings or other suitable or conventional fasteners which may be disconnected for removal of the ballast means 26.
  • attachments 30, 32, 34, 34 ⁇ , 36, 38, 40, 41, 45, 45 ⁇ , 46, 47, 64, 64 ⁇ as depicted in Figure 1 may be, without limitation, suitable or conventional fastening devices capable of removably attaching the various components 18, 20, 22, 24, 26 of the modular liferaft to the hull and floor assembly 12.
  • suitable or conventional fastening devices capable of removably attaching the various components 18, 20, 22, 24, 26 of the modular liferaft to the hull and floor assembly 12.
  • fasteners might include grommets and ties or grommets and webbing strips, quarter-turn fasteners, snaps, Velcro® brand fabric fasteners, D-rings and swivel hooks, slide-lip engagements and the like.
  • Each, of course, must be selected for the particular task to be performed and must be capable of sustaining any loads impressed thereon by dint of operation of the modular liferaft 10 in a seagoing environment.
  • the ballast means 26, boarding ramp 24, support strut 18, canopy 20 and hull and floor assembly 12 typically are formed of a fabric material such as nylon coated on one or both surfaces with a rubberizing compound such as natural rubber, synthetic rubber, acrylonitrile-butadiene rubbers or so-called nitrile rubbers, chlorinated polyethylene, chlorosulfonated polyethylene styrenebutadiene, polychloroprene, vinyl chloride polymer and the like.
  • coated fabric as used herein be construed to refer to all fabrics coated with rubberizing elastomers finding utility in the formation of structure such as the modular liferaft 10 of the invention and useful for operation in a marine invention.
  • the inflatable canopy support strut 18, hull and floor assembly 12, and inflatable boarding ramp 24, typically are formed of a polychloroprene coated nylon fabric while ballast means 26 and canopy 20 are formed from uncoated nylon fabric.
  • the floor sections 22 typically include an outer shell 49 formed from a fabric coated with a rubberizing compound.
  • the fabric is a polyester and the coating compound is a polyvinyl chloride.
  • the floor section outer shells 49 could be formed from other fabrics coated with rubberizing compounds, that is other coated fabrics.
  • the modular liferaft 10 of the instant invention can be, therefore, inspected for defects, and upon the discovery of a defect within a particular component 12, 18, 20, 22, 24, 26, the component requiring service or replacement can be removed from the modular liferaft and replaced with a like or similar component while repairs are undertaken. Alternately should the hull and floor assembly 12 be damaged beyond repair, the remaining components 18, 20, 22, 24, 26 can be utilized with other hull and floor assemblies.
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FR2683203A1 (fr) * 1991-11-06 1993-05-07 Louis Olivier Radeau de sauvetage gonflable.
WO1997010142A1 (fr) * 1995-09-14 1997-03-20 Wardle Storeys (Safety & Survival Equipment) Limited Canots de sauvetage
GB2334239A (en) * 1998-02-17 1999-08-18 Wardle Storeys Ltd Liferaft having roof drainage
EP0839710A3 (fr) * 1996-11-02 1999-12-08 Deutsche Schlauchbootfabrik Hans Scheibert GmbH & Co. KG Equipement supplémentaire pour radeaux de sauvetage gonflables.
FR2780022A1 (fr) * 1998-06-23 1999-12-24 Zodiac Int Embarcation pneumatique, notamment radeau de survie
CN1125175C (zh) * 1995-11-02 2003-10-22 诺沃奇梅兹有限公司 碱性蛋白酶、其制造方法、使用方法和产生此蛋白酶的微生物
WO2011124728A1 (fr) * 2010-04-09 2011-10-13 Roquenublo Inversiones S.L. Dispositif flottant doté d'un périmètre fermé
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US2413985A (en) * 1943-06-07 1947-01-07 Frank G Manson Life raft
US3034154A (en) * 1957-11-13 1962-05-15 Silverstone Joseph Inflatable life-rafts
EP0087734A2 (fr) * 1982-02-25 1983-09-07 The B.F. GOODRICH Company Radeau de sauvetage comportant un lest à profil bas auto-remplissant avec assistance pneumatique

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FR2683203A1 (fr) * 1991-11-06 1993-05-07 Louis Olivier Radeau de sauvetage gonflable.
WO1997010142A1 (fr) * 1995-09-14 1997-03-20 Wardle Storeys (Safety & Survival Equipment) Limited Canots de sauvetage
AU699302B2 (en) * 1995-09-14 1998-11-26 Survitec Group Limited Liferafts
US6074260A (en) * 1995-09-14 2000-06-13 Wardle Storeys (Safety & Survival Equipment) Limited Liferafts
CN1125175C (zh) * 1995-11-02 2003-10-22 诺沃奇梅兹有限公司 碱性蛋白酶、其制造方法、使用方法和产生此蛋白酶的微生物
EP0839710A3 (fr) * 1996-11-02 1999-12-08 Deutsche Schlauchbootfabrik Hans Scheibert GmbH & Co. KG Equipement supplémentaire pour radeaux de sauvetage gonflables.
GB2334239A (en) * 1998-02-17 1999-08-18 Wardle Storeys Ltd Liferaft having roof drainage
FR2780022A1 (fr) * 1998-06-23 1999-12-24 Zodiac Int Embarcation pneumatique, notamment radeau de survie
ES2173772A1 (es) * 1998-06-23 2002-10-16 Zodiac Int Embarcacion neumatica, en especial bote salvavidas
WO2011124728A1 (fr) * 2010-04-09 2011-10-13 Roquenublo Inversiones S.L. Dispositif flottant doté d'un périmètre fermé
CN113619727A (zh) * 2021-08-30 2021-11-09 航宇救生装备有限公司 救生船用后装式船篷

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