EP1880938A1 - Tying-up surface - Google Patents

Abstract

The surface has a flexible link (3) connecting a floating pontoon (1) to an anchoring point (30) e.g. concrete block, located at bottom of water. A boat (2) is tied on both sides of the pontoon which has a connection unit (4) i.e. ring, with upper and lower hasps (41, 42) respectively extending above and below a plane (P) from an upper surface (13) of the pontoon. The flexible link is fixed to the lower hasp such that tractive forces exerted by the boat are directly distributed on the link during tying of the boat on the upper hasp.

Description

The present invention relates to a mooring flush device comprising a floating pontoon, on either side of which boats can moor, this pontoon being adapted to be connected to an anchor point located at the bottom of the water.

In the following description and claims, the term "anchor point" means any means positioned at the bottom of the water and of sufficient weight to remain in place, when subjected to sea conditions. and wind data, calculated according to the equipment to which it is connected on the surface.

Conventionally, this anchor may be a dead body, that is to say a weight or a concrete block immersed in the water. It can also be a network of dead bodies, interconnected under the surface of the water or a network of channels immersed and interconnected.

Traditionally, two solutions exist to park the boats afloat, namely parking on a pontoon (or pontoon) and anchorage.

The first solution is to have in a port or on a body of water, preferably sheltered, a series of floating pontoons, interconnected and one of which is connected to the ground by an access gateway. Optionally, lighter floating structures, called "catway" are fixed perpendicular to these pontoons.

Floating pontoons are connected at regular intervals to anchor points at the bottom of the water, for example by chains or ropes, with a degree of freedom sufficient to follow the tide movements, but without possibility lateral displacement on the water.

The fixing points of these chains or ropes are located under the underside of the pontoon, as represented for example in the document WO 03/062040 .

The pontoons can also be connected to the bottom of the water via vertical piles. The implementation of this type of pontoons in a marina requires significant development work and has a considerable impact on the environment.

In addition, these pontoons or catways are equipped with cleats or mooring bites to which it is possible to moor the boats.

However, the moored boats are subject to the action of the wind, and especially as their air draft is important, and also the action of the swell and the current, depending on the characteristics of the hull. This has the effect that the boats exert on the cleats or mooring cocks, a pulling force not insignificant, or even extremely important in the event of a storm.

These constraints, combined with those exerted by the fixing chains of the pontoon can lead to the degradation of this pontoon, or even to its break and consequently to the detachment of the boat initially moored. The latter then risks drifting and sinking.

Taking into account all the forces exerted on the pontoon and the need for structural rigidity thereof have led so far to oversize the section of the sections constituting it.

This results in an increase in the cost of manufacturing the pontoon.

In addition, the access to the anchor point of the pontoon, located under its lower face is difficult and requires to leave the pontoon of the water or to dive to access it.

This makes maintenance of the pontoon more expensive and more complex.

The wetting solution consists in connecting a buoy floating on the surface, at an anchorage point located at the bottom of the water, by a chain and / or a rope. A boat can then be moored by attaching it to this buoy.

This solution is less expensive than the first one. However, it also has disadvantages.

Indeed, when a boat is moored to a buoy, it can "avoid", that is to say rotate 360 ° around the buoy, under the joint action of wind, current and swell .

It is therefore not possible to moor two boats to the same buoy, except in a very temporary way, because otherwise in case of evasion, they would risk coming into contact with one another and damage each other .

Moreover, on the same body of water, the buoys must be arranged sufficiently spaced from each other, so that when the boats moored there avoid, their respective turning circles do not overlap. As a result, the number of boats that can be wet on a given space is limited.

Mooring a boat on a buoy also has the disadvantage that it moves much more than when docked at a pontoon.

Finally, the embarkation or disembarkation of passengers or objects is much more perilous, since it must be carried out directly between the boat at anchor and an annex moored temporarily to said boat.

An object of the present invention is to provide a more reliable and more weather resistant mooring flotation device than those known from the state of the art and on which the mooring of a boat does not cause forces torques. parasites.

Another object of the invention is to provide a device that significantly increases the number of moorings available, without significant impact on the environment.

A further object of the invention is to provide a device meeting the aforementioned criteria and which also facilitates the operations of landing or boarding passengers or goods on a boat.

To this end, the invention relates to a mooring flush device comprising at least one floating pontoon, on either side of which can dock a boat, and a flexible link which connects said pontoon to a point anchor located at the bottom of the water.

According to the invention, said pontoon is provided with at least one connecting member which comprises means for anchoring a boat extending above the plane P of the upper face of the pontoon and anchoring means s extending under the plane P of said upper face of the pontoon and to which said flexible link is fixed, so that during the mooring of a boat on said mooring means, the forces exerted by the boat are taken over directly on said flexible link.

Thanks to these characteristics of the invention, the mooring of the boat is independent of the pontoon flotation function. The mooring is more reliable, because less stressed. Its structure can be lightened and its manufacturing cost is less important than existing devices of the state of the art.

It is the connecting body that supports most of the efforts exerted by the boat and the dead body.

Finally, the anchoring means to which the flexible link is connected are more easily accessible than is the case when the attachment of the links is made on the lower part of the pontoon. Maintenance of mooring and technical controls are facilitated.

• ledit organe de liaison est fixe par rapport au ponton ;
• l'organe de liaison est un anneau fixé sur une face latérale du ponton, de façon à s'étendre dans un plan vertical ou sensiblement vertical, une portion incurvée de l'anneau faisant saillie au-dessus du plan P de la face supérieure du ponton et constituant lesdits moyens d'amarrage et une autre portion incurvée de l'anneau faisant saillie en dessous du plan P de la face supérieure du ponton et constituant lesdits moyens d'ancrage ;
• ledit organe de liaison est positionné dans une ouverture ménagée au travers du ponton ou d'une partie du ponton, cette ouverture dite "de réception de l'organe de liaison" s'étendant selon un axe vertical ou sensiblement vertical Z-Z', et les moyens d'amarrage de l'organe de liaison s'étendent au-dessus de ladite ouverture et ses moyens d'ancrage au-dessous de ladite ouverture ;
• au moins une ouverture dite "de réception de l'organe de liaison" est ménagée au travers du ponton ou d'une partie du ponton, et ledit organe de liaison est mobile à l'intérieur de cette ouverture ;
• l'ouverture de réception de l'organe de liaison est une fente, dont les dimensions autorisent le déplacement et le guidage dudit organe de liaison dans le plan du ponton flottant ;
• l'ouverture de réception de l'organe de liaison est un écubier, à l'intérieur duquel ledit organe de liaison peut se déplacer en translation, selon un axe vertical ou sensiblement vertical, et ledit organe de liaison comprend une butée qui l'empêche de sortir de ladite ouverture, sous l'action de son poids, lorsque le ponton flottant est sur l'eau ;
• ledit organe de liaison comprend une butée inférieure qui s'étend sous l'ouverture de réception de l'organe de liaison et qui limite sa course de déplacement vertical à l'intérieur de ladite ouverture ;
• le ponton flottant comprend deux organes de liaison reliés par leurs moyens d'ancrage respectifs au même point d'ancrage situé au fond de l'eau ;
• le ponton flottant présente une forme générale en T et comporte une partie avant large et une partie arrière plus étroite et plus longue, de part et d'autre de laquelle un bateau peut venir s'amarrer et le ou les organes de liaison est ou sont positionnée(s) dans ladite partie avant, latéralement ;
• le ponton flottant comprend un cadre et un flotteur et la ou les ouvertures de réception de l'organe de liaison est ou sont ménagée(s) dans ledit cadre ;
• le flotteur comprend au moins trois parties, à savoir deux parties avant et une partie arrière, dont la disposition est telle qu'elle permet à l'eau de s'écouler entre les deux parties avant et entre l'une des parties avant et la partie arrière ;
• le ponton est muni sur sa face latérale d'au moins une défense, montée libre en rotation autour d'un axe horizontal solidaire du ponton ;
• le ponton flottant est muni de moyens de liaison articulée soit à un ponton flottant d'un autre dispositif de ras d'amarrage tel que précité, soit à un module complémentaire flottant.

According to other advantageous and nonlimiting features of the invention, taken alone or in combination:

• said connecting member is fixed relative to the pontoon;
• the connecting member is a ring fixed on a lateral face of the pontoon, so as to extend in a vertical or substantially vertical plane, a curved portion of the ring projecting above the plane P of the upper face of the pontoon and constituting said mooring means and another curved portion of the ring projecting below the plane P of the upper face of the pontoon and constituting said anchoring means;
• said connecting member is positioned in an opening formed through the pontoon or part of the pontoon, this opening called "receiving the connecting member" extending along a vertical or substantially vertical axis Z-Z ', and the mooring means of the connecting member extend above said opening and its anchoring means below said opening;
• at least one opening called "receiving the connecting member" is formed through the pontoon or part of the pontoon, and said connecting member is movable within this opening;
• the receiving opening of the connecting member is a slot, the dimensions of which allow the displacement and guiding of said connecting member in the plane of the floating pontoon;
• the receiving opening of the connecting member is a hawk, inside which said connecting member can move in translation, along a vertical or substantially vertical axis, and said connecting member comprises a stop which prevents it out of said opening, under the action of its weight, when the floating pontoon is on the water;
• said connecting member comprises a lower stop which extends under the receiving opening of the connecting member and which limits its vertical displacement stroke within said opening;
• the floating pontoon comprises two connecting members connected by their respective anchoring means to the same anchoring point located at the bottom of the water;
• the floating pontoon has a general T shape and has a wide front portion and a narrower and longer rear portion on either side of which a boat can moor and the linkage member (s) is or are positioned in said front portion, laterally;
• the floating pontoon comprises a frame and a float and the receiving opening (s) of the connecting member is or are provided in said frame;
• the float comprises at least three parts, namely two front parts and one rear part, the arrangement of which is such that it allows the water to flow between the two front parts and between one of the front parts and the rear part;
• the pontoon is provided on its lateral face with at least one defense, mounted free to rotate about a horizontal axis integral with the pontoon;
• the floating pontoon is provided with connection means articulated either to a floating pontoon of another mooring abutment device as mentioned above, or to a floating complementary module.

Other features and advantages of the invention will appear from the description which will now be made, with reference to the accompanying drawings, which represent, by way of indication but not limitation, a possible embodiment.

• la figure 1 est une vue de côté, schématique, représentant un bateau amarré à un ras d'amarrage conforme à un premier mode de réalisation de l'invention,
• la figure 2 est une vue de dessus simplifiée du ras d'amarrage de la figure 1,
• la figure 3 est une vue de face d'un mode de réalisation d'un organe de liaison et d'une partie du ponton,
• la figure 4 est une vue schématique en coupe d'un autre mode de réalisation d'un organe de liaison et d'une partie du ponton,
• les figures 5 à 7 sont des schémas représentant d'autres modes de réalisation du ras d'amarrage conforme à l'invention, et
• la figure 8 est une vue schématique de dessus représentant l'écoulement de l'eau au travers des différents flotteurs du ras d'amarrage.

On these drawings:

• FIG. 1 is a schematic side view showing a boat moored to a mooring surface according to a first embodiment of the invention,
• FIG. 2 is a simplified top view of the mooring frame of FIG. 1,
• FIG. 3 is a front view of an embodiment of a connecting member and a part of the pontoon,
• FIG. 4 is a schematic sectional view of another embodiment of a connecting member and a part of the pontoon,
• Figures 5 to 7 are diagrams showing other embodiments of the mooring flush according to the invention, and
• Figure 8 is a schematic top view showing the flow of water through the various floats mooring flush.

The invention will now be described in more detail with reference to FIG.

• au moins un ponton flottant 1, de part et d'autre duquel peut venir s'amarrer un bateau 2,
• un lien souple 3 destiné à relier le ponton 1, à un point d'ancrage 30 situé au fond de l'eau, et
• un organe de liaison qui selon les variantes de réalisation porte respectivement les références numériques 4, 5 ou 6.

The mooring flange according to the invention comprises:

• at least one floating pontoon 1, on both sides of which can dock a boat 2,
• a flexible link 3 intended to connect the pontoon 1, to an anchor point 30 located at the bottom of the water, and
• a connecting member which according to the variants respectively carries the reference numerals 4, 5 or 6.

In the variant embodiment shown in FIGS. 1 and 2, the pontoon 1 comprises a structural frame 10 designed to support all the forces exerted on the mooring abutment and a float 11.

The float 11 may be made in one or more parts as will be described later.

Its function is to keep the frame and float assembly afloat and is designed to support point loads, such as, for example, passengers, navigation equipment, foodstuffs.

The lifetimes of the float 11 and the frame 10 are generally not identical, as the maintenance operations to be performed on it. Advantageously, the frame 10 and the float 11 are assembled so that they can be disassembled, and replaced or maintained independently of one another.

The frame 10 is advantageously made of a resistant material, for example metal or composite plastic material. It is preferably made of profiles welded together and may comprise a transverse reinforcement bar 101.

The float 11 is made of a suitable material, such as wood, or plastic. It usually consists of a hollow box, empty or filled with a light material.

As shown in Figure 2, the float 11 or the entire pontoon 1 may be covered, at least in part, a floor 12, or grating.

Although not shown in the figures, the pontoon 1 can support service terminals for water, electricity or telephone.

According to a simplified embodiment shown schematically in Figures 5 to 7, the floating pontoon 1 can also be monobloc (ie without separate frame and float). It is then made entirely in a material ensuring its buoyancy.

The pontoon 1 has an upper face 13 which extends in a horizontal plane P, with reference to its normal position of use on the water (see also FIGS. 5 to 7).

It extends along a longitudinal axis X-X ' .

The pontoon 1 may have a simple, rectangular shape.

However, advantageously, it has a general T shape and has a wide front portion 14 which is extended by a rear portion 15, narrower and longer, on both sides of which the boats can moor , (see Figure 2).

This T-shape has at least four advantages.

The front portion 14 makes it possible to separate the mooring points of the respective prows of two boats moored on either side of the rear portion 15 of the pontoon. If two T pontoons are wet embossing (in the tail leu leu), the front portions 14 of two successive pontoons allow to moor a boat by its bow and by its stern. The additional width provided by the front portion 14 stabilizes the entire mooring flush, in case of off-center point load. Finally, the rear part 15 allows both to separate two boats and serves as a traffic lane to users.

In addition, the shape of the front portion 14 of the pontoon can be adapted to best, so as to promote an assembly of several pontoons 1, star, end to end or staggered.

Advantageously, as can be seen in FIG. 8, the float 11 comprises at least three parts (or three floats), two, 110, 111, arranged at the front part of the T-pontoon symmetrically with respect to the X-X ' axis and the third 112 on the back. This allows the water to flow between the parts 110, 111 located on the front part, then between one of the front parts 110, 111 and the rear part 112, then to flow between the boat 2 and the float, which limits the veneer of the vessel against the float.

The term "flexible link" 3 designates generally any element whose nature and length makes it possible to ensure the connection of the pontoon 1 to the anchoring point 30, while allowing on the one hand, the vertical displacement of the pontoon 1, in order to follow the tidal cycle and, on the other hand, its eventual 360 ° eversion, around the anchoring point 30.

The link 3 is advantageously a chain, a cable or a rope or a combination of at least two of these different elements, assembled end to end.

A first embodiment of the connecting member will now be described with reference to FIG.

This connecting member 5 is constituted by a ring of circular shape or as shown in the figure, of oblong shape.

It is made of a material resistant to traction, for example metal.

The ring 5 is fixed for example by welding, on a lateral face of the pontoon 1, for example here, a vertical lateral face of the frame 10.

The ring 5 extends in a vertical or substantially vertical plane, perpendicular to the plane P of the upper face 13 of the pontoon.

The ring 5 comprises a curved portion 51 which projects above the plane P and to which the boat 2 can be moored and a curved portion 52 opposite, which extends below the plane P , towards the bottom of the water when the pontoon is used. The flexible link 3 is attached to this curved portion 52.

Another embodiment of the invention, according to which the connecting member is always fixed with respect to the pontoon 1, will now be described with reference to FIG. 4.

In this case, the pontoon 1 comprises at least one opening 18 which passes through it along a vertical or substantially vertical axis Z-Z ' and inside which is positioned a connecting member referenced 4.

The member 4 is secured to the pontoon 1 and fixed relative thereto.

It has the general shape of a sphere and is advantageously made of metal.

It comprises an annular groove 40 which opens on its outer surface and which extends in a horizontal plane perpendicular to the axis ZZ '. The height of the groove 40 corresponds to that of the thickness of the pontoon 1.

The opening 18 opens at the edge of the pontoon 1. These dimensions are such that when the connecting member 4 is engaged, by lateral translation, the edges of the pontoon 1 which delimit the opening 18 penetrate the groove 40.

The connecting member 4 comprises, in its upper part extending above the opening 18, a bridge 41 called "upper" and, in its lower portion extending under the opening 18, a bridge 42 said "inferior".

The jumpers could be replaced by cleats.

The bridge 41 is a mooring means to which the boat can be moored, for example by means of a rope, such as a hawser, tied on said bridge and at its other end to a piece such as a cleat, solidaire of the boat 2.

The lower bridge 42 is an anchoring means to which the flexible link 3 is fixed.

The upper face 43 of the groove 40 constitutes a so-called "upper" abutment which prevents the connecting element from passing through the opening 18, under the effect of its own weight.

The lower face 44 of the groove 40 acts as a lower stop. When a boat is moored on the upper bridge 41, it exerts a traction force which, in the absence of this lower stop 44, cause the extraction of the connecting member 4 out of the pontoon.

The connecting member 4 is fixed and can not move either horizontally or vertically. It may possibly be free to rotate about the axis ZZ '.

A locking element such as a key prevents the member 4 from coming out laterally from the opening 18.

When a boat 2 is moored on the upper bridge 41 of the member 4 or on the portion 51 of the member 5, the tensile forces that it exerts are directly taken up by the flexible connecting element 3.

The pontoon 1 is thus weakly biased or deformed, which improves its life and makes it possible to make it from structurally weaker and less expensive structural elements.

Another variant embodiment of the invention has been presented in FIG.

The connecting member 4 is shown schematically.

In this variant embodiment, the opening for receiving the member 4 has the shape of a referenced slot 16, along which the connecting member 4 can slide.

The slot 16 opens on the side of the pontoon 1.

It constitutes a means of guiding the connecting member 4 which allows its movement in the plane P of the pontoon.

In the example shown in Figure 5, the slot 16 is rectilinear and allows a degree of freedom of movement of the member 4, along a longitudinal axis YY ' perpendicular to the axes X-X' and Z-Z '.

The slot 16 could also have a shape in an arc, for example.

A blocking element, such as a key, not shown in the figures, prevents the member 4 from coming out laterally from the slot 16.

FIG. 6 illustrates an embodiment variant of the connecting member which then bears the reference 6.

Its central portion 65, which extends between the upper stops 63 and lower 64, is longer than the thickness of the pontoon 1. The latter is provided with a hawk 17, through which the connecting member 6 can slide vertically between its two stops 63 and 64.

When mooring a boat on the mooring means 61, the connecting member 6 moves upwards, until the abutment 64 comes into contact with the underside of the pontoon 1.

Conversely, when the boat leaves the pontoon, the connecting member 6 is released and falls under the action of its own weight until the stop 63 comes into contact with the upper face 13 of the pontoon 1.

In this embodiment, the lower stop 64 is optional, since the length of the link 3 limits the possibility for the connecting member 6 to completely exit the pontoon 1.

The central portion 65 of the connecting member 6 may consist of a single cable or rope, the anchoring means 61 and anchor 62 of a loop of the rope and the stops 63, 64 of a pin.

FIG. 7 represents an alternative embodiment in which the pontoon 1 is provided with two openings for receiving the connecting member, here two hawks 17, each capable of receiving a connecting member 6. The two connecting members 6 are connected by their respective anchoring means 62, at a single anchoring point 30 located at the bottom of the water, by means of the flexible link 3.

In this case, the anchoring means 62 are, for example, constituted by a single node connecting the two cables or ropes 65 constituting the connecting members.

The operation of the assembly is identical to that described above.

In the embodiments illustrated in Figures 4 to 7, the pontoon 1 is monobloc, made of a floating material, and the receiving opening 16, 17, 18 of the connecting member passes through from side to side.

In the embodiment illustrated in Figures 1 and 2, the pontoon 1 comprises a float and a surrounding frame and the receiving opening 17 or 18 is then advantageously formed through the frame 10. In addition, when the pontoon has a T-shape, the receiving openings are preferably formed in its front portion 14 and laterally (zone 19).

In addition, some additional developments of the pontoon are possible.

To limit shocks between the hull of the boat 2 and the pontoon 1, the latter can be provided on its lateral surface, at least one defense 7, mounted free to rotate about a horizontal axis 70, integral with the pontoon .

In order to connect the floating pontoon 1 to another pontoon 1 according to the invention or to another floating module, the pontoon 1 may be provided with articulated connection means 8, such as a sphere or a receiving cup of this sphere. .

The mooring flush device according to the invention has many advantages.

The connecting member ensures the recovery of the forces exerted by the boat, so that the pontoon is almost not solicited.

The pontoon offers more comfort for the boarding and / or unloading of passengers and goods and limits the roll of the boat.

The device allows mooring at least two boats on the same mooring point, the pontoon and the boat (s) can avoid together. It also becomes possible to house a larger number of boats on the same surface of water.

Finally, when the mooring device is wet embossing, it no longer avoids, but the characteristics of recovery efforts on the connecting member are retained.

Claims (14)

Mooring flotation device comprising at least one floating pontoon (1, 10, 11), on either side of which a boat (2) can be moored, and a flexible link (3) which makes it possible to connect said boat pontoon at an anchor point (30) located at the bottom of the water, characterized in that said pontoon (1, 10, 11) is provided with at least one connecting member (4, 5, 6) which comprises mooring means (41, 51, 61) of a boat extending above the plane P of the upper face (13) of the pontoon (1, 10, 11) and anchoring means (42, 52, 62) extending under the plane P of said upper face (13) of the pontoon, and to which is fixed said flexible link (3), so that when docking a boat (2) on said means mooring (41, 51, 61), the forces exerted by the boat are taken directly on said flexible link (3). Device according to claim 1, characterized in that said connecting member (4, 5, 6) is fixed relative to the pontoon (1, 10, 11). Device according to claim 2, characterized in that the connecting member is a ring (5), fixed on a lateral face of the pontoon (1, 10, 11), so as to extend in a vertical or substantially vertical plane , a curved portion (51) of the ring (5) projecting above the plane (P) of the upper face (13) of the pontoon (1, 10, 11) and constituting said mooring means and another curved portion (52) of the ring (5) projecting below the plane (P) of the upper face (13) of the pontoon and constituting said anchoring means. Device according to claim 2, characterized in that said connecting member (4) is positioned in an opening (18) formed through the pontoon or part of the pontoon (1, 10, 11), this opening (18) said "receiving the connecting member" extending along a vertical or substantially vertical axis (Z-Z '), and in that the mooring means (41) of the connecting member (4) s extend above said opening (18) and its anchoring means (42) below said opening (18). Device according to claim 1, characterized in that at least one opening (16, 17) called "receiving the connecting member" is formed through the pontoon (1, 10, 11) or part of the pontoon, and in that said connecting member (4, 6) is movable within this opening. Device according to claim 5, characterized in that the opening (16) for receiving the connecting member is a slot, the dimensions allow the displacement and guiding of said connecting member (4) in the plane of the floating pontoon (1, 10, 11). Device according to claim 5, characterized in that the receiving opening of the connecting member is a hawk (17), inside which said connecting member (6) can move in translation along an axis ( Z-Z ') vertical or substantially vertical, and in that said connecting member (6) comprises a stop (63) which prevents it from coming out of said opening, under the action of its weight, when the floating pontoon is on the water. Device according to claim 7, characterized in that said connecting member (6) comprises a lower stop (64) which extends under the opening (17) for receiving the connecting member and which limits its displacement stroke vertical within said opening. Device according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the floating pontoon (1, 10, 11) comprises two connecting members (4, 5, 6) connected by their respective anchoring means (42, 52, 62). at the same anchor point (30) located at the bottom of the water. Device according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the floating pontoon (1, 10, 11) has a generally T-shape and has a wide front part (14) and a narrower and longer rear part (15). , on both sides of which a boat (2) can be moored and in that the or the connecting members (4, 5, 6) is or are positioned in said front portion (14) , laterally. Device according to one of claims 4 or 7, characterized in that the floating pontoon (1) comprises a frame (10) and a float (11) and in that the or the receiving openings (16, 17, 18) the connecting member (4, 5, 6) is or are provided in said frame (10). Device according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the float (11) comprises at least three parts, namely two front parts (110, 111) and a rear part (112) whose arrangement is such that it allows water flows between the two front portions (110, 111) and between one of the front portions (110, 111) and the rear portion (112). Device according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the pontoon (1, 10, 11) is provided on its lateral face with at least one deflection (7) mounted free to rotate about a horizontal axis (70 ) secured to the pontoon. Device according to one of the preceding claims, characterized in that the floating pontoon (1, 10, 11) is provided with means (8) of articulated connection either to a floating pontoon (1, 10, 11) of another mooring device according to one of the preceding claims, or to a floating complementary module.

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