EP0826592B1 - Sabord de plongeur pour bateau gonflable - Google Patents

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EP0826592B1
EP0826592B1 EP96202370A EP96202370A EP0826592B1 EP 0826592 B1 EP0826592 B1 EP 0826592B1 EP 96202370 A EP96202370 A EP 96202370A EP 96202370 A EP96202370 A EP 96202370A EP 0826592 B1 EP0826592 B1 EP 0826592B1
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Douglas Hemphill
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B63—SHIPS OR OTHER WATERBORNE VESSELS; RELATED EQUIPMENT
    • B63B—SHIPS OR OTHER WATERBORNE VESSELS; EQUIPMENT FOR SHIPPING 
    • B63B27/00—Arrangement of ship-based loading or unloading equipment for cargo or passengers
    • B63B27/36—Arrangement of ship-based loading or unloading equipment for floating cargo
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B63—SHIPS OR OTHER WATERBORNE VESSELS; RELATED EQUIPMENT
    • B63B—SHIPS OR OTHER WATERBORNE VESSELS; EQUIPMENT FOR SHIPPING 
    • B63B19/00—Arrangements or adaptations of ports, doors, windows, port-holes, or other openings or covers
    • B63B19/08—Ports or like openings in vessels' sides or at the vessels' bow or stern
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B63—SHIPS OR OTHER WATERBORNE VESSELS; RELATED EQUIPMENT
    • B63B—SHIPS OR OTHER WATERBORNE VESSELS; EQUIPMENT FOR SHIPPING 
    • B63B7/00—Collapsible, foldable, inflatable or like vessels
    • B63B7/06—Collapsible, foldable, inflatable or like vessels having parts of non-rigid material
    • B63B7/08—Inflatable
    • B63B7/082—Inflatable having parts of rigid material
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B63—SHIPS OR OTHER WATERBORNE VESSELS; RELATED EQUIPMENT
    • B63C—LAUNCHING, 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
    • B63C9/00—Life-saving in water
    • B63C9/02—Lifeboats, life-rafts or the like, specially adapted for life-saving

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  • the present invention relates to a diver's door for use on inflatable boats in order to provide access to the boat.
  • inflatable boats Numerous examples of inflatable boats are known in the art. Several inflatable boats are formed from separable sections such as that disclosed in U.S. Patent No. 4,159,551 (Iwai). This separable inflatable boat is formed from a covering having a hollow peripheral casing and a flat deck and a floatable member accommodated in the casing. The floatable member includes a plurality of floatable bags which are separably interconnected by slide fasteners and can be conveniently carried separately from the covering. This boat, however, has no provision for removing a section of the boat during use in order to improve diver access thereto.
  • U.S. Patent No. 3,931,655 discloses an inflatable boat of sectional construction including a bow section, an intermediate section and a stern section which are releasably secured together.
  • Each section includes inflatable side members that are generally rectangular and which form the sides of the boat. Inflatable transverse members of each section are secured together and serve as seats for the boat.
  • the sections may be readily disconnected from each other and each section may then serve as a small buoyant craft. Again, this boat has no provision for removing a portion of the side wall in order to improve diver access but rather is separable into three distinct boats.
  • U.S. Patent No. 4,449,473 discloses an inflatable boat having parallel side sponsors joined by a floor and having a rigid keelson member including a demountable transom capable of supporting an outboard motor. The transom may be removed from the boat for storage but no provision is made for removal of the transom from the boat during use.
  • U.S. Patent No. 5,170,738 discloses an inflatable vessel for marine divers having an opening in the fabric bottom or deck to enable divers to board the vessel from the water through the opening without swamping the vessel.
  • the advantage of this particular boat is that no rigid framework is required.
  • this boat requires that the deck or bottom be suspended above the water line in order to prevent flooding of the interior of the boat when the access opening is opened.
  • U.S. Patent No. 5,170,738 also mentions that existing vehicles available for use in similar operations may be partially rigid with an inflatable tube supporting a rigid frame which forms a well for entry. Such boats suffer from the disadvantage, however, that the entry well cannot be closed and thus typically provides a means for ingress of water to the boat through the well during use.
  • U.S. Patent No. 3,781,933 discloses a one-man inflatable life raft with an inflatable tube peripherally bounding an occupant receiving space having a flexible floor member.
  • the boat includes a zippered opening in the floor to be used for entry thus avoiding the necessity of climbing over the peripheral tube and facilitating the use of a constant diameter tube as opposed to conventional tubes that are tapered at one end to facilitate boarding over the side. Again, this boat suffers from the disadvantage that water will enter the boat when the zippered opening in the floor is opened thereby swamping the boat or at least wetting the contents of the boat.
  • U.S. Patent No. 4,498,413 discloses a rigid inflatable boat including multiple inflatable bladders defining a ring around the hull generally at or above the water line.
  • the inflatable bladders are connected to the hull and to each other in a manner facilitating rapid mounting and demounting and easy repair thereof. This is accomplished by a positioning structure formed in the hull for positioning each bladder with respect to the hull and a holding structure to releaseably hold each bladder to the hull when the bladder is inflated while allowing ready demounting when the bladder is deflated.
  • the bladders may be provided with interlocking end structures to stabilize the positions of the bladders with respect to each other and the hull.
  • U.S. Patent No. 4,498,413 does not contemplate removal of one or more sections of the boat during use in order to facilitate entry or exit of a diver to or from the boat but rather is designed solely for the purpose of facilitating disassembly of the boat for repair or replacement of one or more of the inflatable bladders.
  • DE-U-29600433 describes a life raft having tubular side walls and/or removeably attachable and separately inflatable section of the side wall (see Fig 2) for providing easy access to the raft. However these are no means for securely maintaining the section to the side walls in a closed condition.
  • an inflatable boat including a means for providing access to the boat for a diver while at the same time not exposing the boat to ingress of water.
  • the present invention relates to a diver's door for a rigid inflatable boat which includes a removable support section including a means for releasably attaching the support section to the deck of a boat and an inflatable support element attached to the support section such that the tube element and the removable support section are removable as a single unit from the deck of a boat.
  • the present invention relates to an inflatable boat including a deck, a rigid support attached to the deck and a plurality of inflatable tube elements which are attached the rigid support and extending at least partially around the deck as from sidewalls of the boat. At least one of the inflatable tube elements and a corresponding section of the rigid support are removable as a single unit to create a space in the sidewall of the boat to permit passage of a diver into or out of the boat through said space.
  • a third embodiment of the present invention relates to a method of providing access to an inflatable boat having a deck provided with a plurality of inflatable tube elements and a rigid support which together extend at least partially around the deck to form sidewalls of the boat with a section of the rigid support and a corresponding tube element being removable as a single unit from the deck
  • the method includes the steps of partially deflating the removable inflatable tube element and removing the removable section of the tube element and the corresponding removable inflatable tube element from the deck of the boat to provide a space in the sidewall.
  • the present invention provides an apparatus and method for providing access for a diver to an inflatable boat while minimizing the exposure of the deck of the boat to ingress of water. In this manner, the problem of the prior art inflatable boats has been solved.
  • Fig. 1 depicts an inflatable boat as seen from outside of the boat and including the diver's door of the present invention shown displaced from its position on the deck.
  • Fig. 2 is an enlarged view of the section of the inflatable boat of Figure 1, as seen from inside the boat, which includes the diver's door which is again shown displaced from its position on the deck.
  • an inflatable boat 10 which includes a first inflatable tube element 12, located at the stern of the boat 10 and extending along one side thereof and a second inflatable tube element 14 extending along the remainder of the one side of the boat 10 and continuing around the bow and the other side of the boat 10 to the opposite side of the stern. Both tube elements 12 and 14 are attached to the deck 16. Apart from a deflatable tube element 20 described in more detail below, boat 10 is otherwise conventional and thus further description of the boat per se will be dispensed with.
  • Fig. 1 Also shown in Fig. 1 is the displaceable tube element 20 which is depicted out of its position between first inflatable tube element 12 and second inflatable tube element 14. Tube elements 12, 14 and 20 together form the sidewalls of inflatable boat 10. As can be seen from Fig. 1, removal of the displaceable chamber 20 creates an opening between first inflatable tube element 12 and second inflatable tube element 14 through which a diver may enter or leave inflatable boat 10.
  • Each of the inflatable tube elements 12, 14 and displaceable tube elements 20 include end caps 36 on the ends thereof.
  • End caps 36 are typically formed from a fabric material and end caps 36 serve to define the form of the inflatable tube elements 12, 14 and 20 so well as provided structural stability thereto.
  • Handle means 21 attached to displaceable tube element 20.
  • Handle means 21 is employed for grasping the displaceable tube element 20 and removing it from its position between inflatable tube element 12, 14.
  • Handle means 21 may be a short length of rope fastened at both ends as shown in Fig. 1, or it may be any other suitable handle means such as a plastic handle, two rings attached to the displaceable tube element 20 or any other known means for grasping objects.
  • FIG. 2 there is shown a close-up view of the area of inflatable boat 10 which includes the diver door 22 as seen from inside inflatable boat 10 looking towards the outside.
  • Tube cradle 17 includes a removable tube cradle section 17a which is attached to displaceable inflatable tube elements 20.
  • Inflatable tube elements 12,14 are provided with attachment flanges 18 which may be attached to tube cradle 17 using screws 19 or any other suitable means such as bolts, for example.
  • Displaceable inflatable tube element 20 also includes an attachment flange 18a which is attached to removable tube cradle section 17a by screws 19a or any other suitable means.
  • Removable tube cradle section 17a is releasably attachable to deck 16 by two overcenter latches 30. Any other suitable means for releasably attaching removable tube cradle section 17a to deck 16 may be employed in place of overcenter latches 30.
  • First inflatable tube element 12 further includes a first hoop flange 32 located at the end of first inflatable tube element 12 which is adjacent to diver door 22.
  • First hoop flange 32 provides additional structural stability to first inflatable tube element 12 and displaceable inflatable tube element 20 while also substantially preventing passage of water between first inflatable tube element 12 and displaceable inflatable tube element 20.
  • Diver door 22 also includes a second hoop flange 34 which is adapted to fit around the adjacent end of second inflatable tube element 14 to thereby provide additional structural stability to the boat and substantially prevent passage of water between displaceable inflatable tube element 20 and second inflatable tube element 14.
  • Hoop flanges 32, 34 are typically formed from a semi-rigid material.
  • inflatable tube elements 12, 14, 20 each include a means for wholly or partially inflating/deflating 23 the tube elements 12, 14, 20.
  • the inflating/deflating means 23 may be any conventional means known for this purpose such as value.
  • diver door 22 including displaceable inflatable tube element 20 is provided in partially or completely deflated form.
  • the partially or completely deflated diver door 22 is inserted in position between inflatable tube elements 12, 14 with end cap 36 of displaceable inflatable tube element 20 positioned within hoop flange 32 of inflatable tube element 12.
  • overcenter latches 30 are closed to releasably attach removable tube cradle section 17a to deck 16.
  • displaceable inflatable tube element 20 is inflated to its fully inflated condition whereby it fills the opening between inflatable tube elements 12, 14 and forces hoop flange 34 over end cap 36 of second inflatable tube element 14.
  • displaceable inflatable tube element 20 is partially or completely deflated using inflating/deflating means 23 such that hoop flange 34 no longer encircles second inflatable tube element 14 at which point overcenter latches 30 are released and diver door 22 is grasped and removed from its position between inflatable chambers 12, 14 to create an opening through which a diver may enter or leave inflatable boat 10.

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  1. Porte pour plongeur pour un bateau gonflable rigide (10) possédant un pont (16), caractérisée en ce que la porte de plongeur inclut un élément de tube gonflable amovible (20) possédant des première et seconde extrémités (36) et qui forme une section de la paroi latérale (12,14) du bateau lorsqu'il est dans un état complètement gonflé, et peut être retiré de la paroi latérale pour libérer un espace suffisamment large pour permettre à un plongeur de pénétrer dans ou quitter le bateau par cet espace, au moins une bride formant virole (32,31) fixée à une extrémité de l'élément de tube amovible et adaptée pour être montée autour de la périphérie de l'extrémité d'un élément de tube gonflable adjacent, qui fait partie de la paroi latérale, de manière à maintenir ainsi l'élément de tube amovible en position dans la paroi latérale, lorsqu'il est dans un état complètement gonflé, et des moyens (23) pour au moins dégonfler partiellement l'élément de tube amovible pour faciliter le retrait de l'élément de tube amovible de la paroi latérale du bateau.
  2. Porte pour plongeur selon la revendication 1, comprenant en outre des capuchons d'extrémité rigides formés d'un seul tenant à chaque extrémité de l'élément de tube gonflable pour conférer une stabilité de forme et une stabilité structurelle à l'élément de tube gonflable lorsqu'il est dans son état totalement gonflé.
  3. Porte pour plongeur selon l'une quelconque des revendications 1-2, comportant en outre une section de support amovible servant à supporter l'élément gonflable amovible en position dans la paroi latérale, et comportant des moyens pour fixer de façon amovible la section de support amovible au pont du bateau, ledit élément de tube amovible et ladite section de support amovible pouvant être retirés sous la forme d'une seule unité amovible, de la paroi latérale du bateau.
  4. Porte pour plongeur selon la revendication 3, comprenant en outre au moins une bride de fixation servant à fixer l'élément de tube gonflable à la section de support amovible.
  5. Bateau gonflable (10) comprenant un pont possédant un périmètre, une pluralité d'éléments de tubes gonflables (12,14,20) fixés au bateau le long d'une partie substantielle du périmètre du pont de manière à former la paroi latérale du bateau, caractérisé en ce que l'un des éléments de tubes gonflables peut être retiré de la paroi latérale pour créer un espace qui permet le passage d'un plongeur pénétrant dans ou sortant du bateau à travers cet espace, au moins une bride formant virole (32,34) fixée à une extrémité de l'élément de support amovible (20) et adaptée pour être monté autour de la périphérie d'extrémité d'un élément de tube gonflable adjacent, qui fait partie de la paroi latérale, de manière à maintenir ainsi l'élément de tube gonflable en position dans la paroi latérale lorsqu'il est dans un état complètement gonflé, et des moyens (23) pour dégonfler au moins partiellement l'élément de tube amovible afin de faciliter le retrait de l'élément de tube amovible à partir de la paroi latérale.
  6. Bateau gonflable selon la revendication 5, dans lequel l'élément de tube amovible comprend des capuchons d'extrémité rigides formés d'un seul tenant à chaque extrémité de l'élément de tube amovible pour conférer une forme et une stabilité structurelle à l'élément de tube amovible lorsqu'il est dans son état complètement gonflé, et l'élément de tube amovible possède une longueur inférieure à 20 % de la longueur totale de la paroi latérale.
  7. Bateau gonflable selon l'une quelconque des revendications 5-6, comprenant en outre une seconde bride formant virole fixée à l'extrémité d'un élément de tube gonflable adjacent et adaptée pour être montée autour de la seconde extrémité de l'élément de tube amovible lorsqu'il est dans un état complètement gonflé, de manière à accroítre la stabilité structurelle du bateau en maintenant l'élément de tube amovible fermement en position dans la paroi latérale et en empêchant substantiellement l'entrée d'eau entre l'élément de tube amovible et l'élément de tube gonflable adjacent.
  8. Bateau gonflable selon l'une quelconque des revendications 5-7, comprenant en outre une section de support amovible et possédant des moyens pour fixer de façon amovible la section de support amovible au pont du bateau, ledit élément de tube gonflable amovible et ladite section de support amovible pouvant être retirés sous la forme d'une seule unité amovible à partir de la paroi latérale du bateau.
  9. Bateau gonflable selon la revendication 8, comprenant en outre des moyens de blocage servant à fixer de façon amovible l'unité amovible au pont du bateau.
  10. Bateau gonflable selon l'une quelconque des revendications 5-9, dans lequel l'élément de tube amovible de l'unité amovible comprend au moins une bride de fixation servant à fixer l'élément de tube amovible à la section de support rigide.
  11. Procédé pour créer un accès à un bateau gonflable comportant un pont pourvu d'une pluralité d'éléments de tubes gonflables, qui forment la paroi latérale du bateau, l'un desdits éléments de tubes gonflables pouvant être retiré de la paroi latérale pour créer dans la paroi latérale un espace suffisamment étendu pour permettre à un plongeur de pénétrer dans ou de quitter le bateau par ledit espace, l'élément de tube amovible étant pourvu d'au moins une bride formant virole fixée à l'une de ses extrémités et adaptée de manière à être montée autour de la périphérie de l'extrémité de l'élément de tube gonflable adjacent, ledit procédé étant caractérisé par les étapes consistant à :
    dégonfler au moins partiellement l'élément de tube amovible de sorte que la au moins une bride formant virole peut être retirée de la périphérie de l'élément de tube gonflable adjacent;
    retirer l'élément de tube amovible de la paroi latérale du bateau pour créer, dans la paroi latérale, un espace qui est suffisamment étendu pour permettre à un plongeur de pénétrer dans ou de quitter le bateau par ledit espace.
  12. Procédé selon la revendication 11, selon lequel l'élément de tube amovible et les autres éléments de tubes gonflables, qui forment la paroi latérale, sont fixés à un élément de support rigide, une section de l'élément de support rigide est fixée à l'élément de tube amovible et peut être retirée de la paroi latérale conjointement avec l'élément de tube amovible pour former une unité amovible, et le bateau comporte en outre des moyens pour fixer de façon amovible une unité amovible au pont du bateau, le procédé comprenant en outre l'étape consistant à libérer les moyens de fixation pour détacher l'unité amovible du pont avant l'étape de retrait de l'unité amovible.
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ES96202370T ES2142542T3 (es) 1996-08-26 1996-08-26 Puerta para buceador en embarcacion hinchable.
EP96202370A EP0826592B1 (fr) 1996-08-26 1996-08-26 Sabord de plongeur pour bateau gonflable
DE69606635T DE69606635T2 (de) 1996-08-26 1996-08-26 Öffnung für Taucher an einem aufblasbaren Boot
GR20000400860T GR3033168T3 (en) 1996-08-26 2000-04-06 Diver's door for inflatable boat

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