EP0867358A1 - Rettungsinsel hoher Kapazität - Google Patents

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EP0867358A1
EP0867358A1 EP97402936A EP97402936A EP0867358A1 EP 0867358 A1 EP0867358 A1 EP 0867358A1 EP 97402936 A EP97402936 A EP 97402936A EP 97402936 A EP97402936 A EP 97402936A EP 0867358 A1 EP0867358 A1 EP 0867358A1
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    • 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
    • B63C9/22—Devices for holding or launching life-buoys, inflatable life-rafts, or other floatable life-saving equipment
    • 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
    • B63C9/04—Life-rafts
    • 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
    • B63B27/14—Arrangement of ship-based loading or unloading equipment for cargo or passengers of ramps, gangways or outboard ladders ; Pilot lifts
    • B63B27/143—Ramps
    • B63B2027/145—Inflatable ramps
    • 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
    • B63C9/04—Life-rafts
    • B63C2009/042—Life-rafts inflatable
    • 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
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    • B63C9/04—Life-rafts
    • B63C2009/044—Life-rafts covered

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  • the present invention relates to improvements brought to large capacity liferafts comprising an inflatable peripheral edge forming a rod buoyancy and a central bottom secured to it.
  • This floating platform thus constitutes only an intermediary between the part of the means of evacuation located at water level and the life raft itself and has, in principle, no ability for people to remain there. As such, it is part of the material as well as ladders, slides, wells braked fall, ... and can even be mechanically attached to it and be deployed at the same time as these. This platform is therefore not taken into account as that boat allowing to collect people.
  • Gold although it does not include any of the equipment of a raft rescue (shelter, weaponry, survival equipment, communication equipment, ...), its cost is far from being negligible.
  • this platform must be the subject of a maintenance and regular checks as well as all rescue equipment, checks and maintenance which are long and expensive.
  • this type of liferaft is of a general use: it may be suitable for evacuation fast of ships of all sizes, and in particular having various freeboard heights: cruise ships, ocean liners, tall car-ferries on water, or low-speed high-speed vessel on the water ; it can be associated with all means of evacuation people from the ship: basket, slide, well braked descent, ladders for great heights, but also small slides, even simple inclined gangway for low-rise vessels.
  • rafts For very large capacity rafts (for example, to fix ideas, around 100 people), it is desirable to provide two areas for grouping people gathered located on either side of an area centrally located collection platform; in that case, it is also desirable that the raft has a shape general elongated and that the two regrouping zones occupy the end portions of the raft, which leads to an easier general arrangement.
  • this provision is not exclusive, and it may in particular be also provided that the raft has an elongated shape and at least one regrouping area occupies part end of the raft and the reception platform area occupies the other end part of the raft: we can thus have a larger free space allowing for example to facilitate the cooperation of the raft and the means of evacuation in heavy seas.
  • the collection platform area being open and therefore exposed to rain and seawater, it is advantageous that it is arranged for an automatic evacuation of on-board water (so-called "self-draining" area).
  • the or the areas where people are grouped preferably arranged to protect persons from the water of rain and sea, it is desirable that the platform area is separated from the grouping area of people on board by means of partitioning waterproof.
  • these means can consist of one or more inflatable tubes which extend transversely on the bottom of the raft at the limit of two zones and which are tightly connected with the bottom and, at the ends, with the peripheral flange of the raft.
  • this or these inflated tubes can also play the role of stiffener, and it is possible to foresee others in the regrouping zone (s) people only for the purpose of strengthening mechanics of the raft, especially in the case of very large capacity of elongated shape as mentioned above.
  • the raft For security purposes, to be assured that the raft can be used whatever the conditions of its launching, it is interesting that the raft is of a type called "self-righting" or possibly reversible.
  • a compliant raft to the invention be equipped laterally with means allowing to moor edge to edge at least one other raft of rescue to form a multiple rescue unit.
  • the zone or zones of onboard people are equipped a shelter.
  • the platform area of collection no longer has to play an active role, at least until the rescue operation during which it will serve as an evacuation platform for people. From this fact, in the absence of an active role, this zone can be occupied by people on board and it is desirable to provide a light and easy auxiliary shelter removable can be built up above the area of collection platform.
  • a life raft arranged according to the invention leads to a significant saving in the equipment of ships and in the maintenance and control of lifesaving equipment, leads to greater speed of placement of people evacuated in raft shelters, is very flexible to use since suitable for all types of vessels and all types of means of egress, can provide better feeling of security for those gathered in addition large numbers and can facilitate the care of injured, allows the constitution of unity of very important capacity by stowing several rafts on board on board (for example two identical rafts conforming to the invention, or a raft according to the invention and a raft fully equipped with shelters, even a raft according to the invention framed on either side by two rafts fully equipped with shelters); finally the number of aircrew necessary for the implementation of the raft, for boarding people, then for securing the raft command can be significantly reduced vis-à-vis small capacity rescue units.
  • a large capacity liferaft (by example, to fix ideas, about 50 people) of inflatable type, designated as a whole by the reference 1.
  • This raft comprises in particular, generally known, an inflatable peripheral edge 2 forming a flange of buoyancy, arranged in any desirable way for example either in the form of a single large diameter rod, or in the form of two or three superimposed tubes.
  • the interior of the space defined by this peripheral edge is occupied by a bottom 3 secured to said edge in a sealed manner.
  • the raft is also equipped with inflation equipment, armament navigation and possibly a survival weapon which are not shown.
  • the platform area 4 occupies a significantly smaller surface area than the grouping area 5.
  • Shelter 6 is arranged in accordance with regulations provided on this subject, with an opening (not visible) of communication with platform area 5, but also side openings, such as 7.
  • Inflatable arches 8 support the shelter.
  • platform area 4 is arranged so that the rain and sea water it receives is evacuated automatically (so-called "self-draining" area).
  • watertight protective means separate the area from platform 4 and the regrouping area 5: these means may in particular be constituted by an inflatable tube transverse (located directly above an arch 8 and therefore not visible in fig. 1) which is tightly secured at the bottom 3 and, at its ends, at the peripheral flange; this inflated tube also acts as a stiffener reinforcing the rigidity of the boat and possibly, especially in in the case of long rafts, other similar tubes can be provided for this purpose only.
  • the raft 1 is of self-righting or reversible type, so as to be operational whatever the conditions of its updating the water.
  • the arrangement according to the invention allows great flexibility in design and / or the use of life rafts.
  • This raft designated as a whole by reference 10, comprises two zones 5 for grouping the people on board who are located on both sides a central zone 4 of collection platform. For the remains both the raft itself and the platform area 4 and the grouping areas 5 can be arranged as said before.
  • Figure 2 may be considered for a raft of any shape, we can imagine that it is particularly suitable for a shaped raft general elongated in which the grouping areas 5 occupy the end parts, as visible on the Figures 2 and 3.
  • the raft 10 is shown, in perspective, in a position to collect people to be evacuated from ship 11 along which it is moored.
  • the means of evacuation consisted of a slide 12 opening directly onto the platform area central 4.
  • passages have been shown 13 giving access to one of the regrouping zones 5 from collection area 4.
  • a canvas can be stretched between the two shelters 6, above the central zone 4 in order to form a light shelter for the latter.
  • a zone of grouping of people occupies an end zone of the raft while the collection platform area occupies the other end of the raft.
  • the larger free space offers greater freedom to positively cooperate the raft and means of evacuation in rough sea.
  • FIG. 4 there is shown such a unit consisting of a raft 10 similar to that of FIGS. 2 and 3 moored edge-to-edge, by means of mooring 14 provided laterally, to another raft 15 which can be similarly design that the raft 10 or else, as illustrated, be of a fully sheltered type: this is platform area 4 of raft 10 which is then used to embark people in raft 15.
  • Another raft 15 could also be moored on the other side of raft 10, which would serve also when boarding the latter.

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FR9615023A FR2756809B1 (fr) 1996-12-06 1996-12-06 Radeau de sauvetage de grande capacite
FR9615023 1996-12-06

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CN103687786B (zh) * 2011-06-17 2016-09-07 维金救生设备有限公司 充气式可漂浮装置
EP2772425A1 (de) * 2013-02-28 2014-09-03 Viking Life-Saving Equipment A/S Schiffsevakuierungssystem
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