EP1902939A2 - Procédé et appareil pour faire émerger des lignes d'amarres nautiques du fond marin - Google Patents

Procédé et appareil pour faire émerger des lignes d'amarres nautiques du fond marin Download PDF

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EP1902939A2
EP1902939A2 EP07111865A EP07111865A EP1902939A2 EP 1902939 A2 EP1902939 A2 EP 1902939A2 EP 07111865 A EP07111865 A EP 07111865A EP 07111865 A EP07111865 A EP 07111865A EP 1902939 A2 EP1902939 A2 EP 1902939A2
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Giovanni Merope
Pierangelo Peroni
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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 
    • B63B21/00—Tying-up; Shifting, towing, or pushing equipment; Anchoring
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B63—SHIPS OR OTHER WATERBORNE VESSELS; RELATED EQUIPMENT
    • B63B—SHIPS OR OTHER WATERBORNE VESSELS; EQUIPMENT FOR SHIPPING 
    • B63B22/00—Buoys
    • B63B22/02—Buoys specially adapted for mooring a vessel
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B63—SHIPS OR OTHER WATERBORNE VESSELS; RELATED EQUIPMENT
    • B63B—SHIPS OR OTHER WATERBORNE VESSELS; EQUIPMENT FOR SHIPPING 
    • B63B22/00—Buoys
    • B63B22/04—Fixations or other anchoring arrangements
    • B63B22/06—Fixations or other anchoring arrangements with means to cause the buoy to surface in response to a transmitted signal

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  • the present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for making nautical mooring lines emerge from a sea-floor, avoiding a series of hazardous and dirtying manual operations.
  • boats moored in harbour are normally moored stem to the pier by means of a first line, then their bow needs to be secured.
  • a boat hook i.e. a rod at whose end is fastened a hook
  • retrieve a line anchored to a chain in proximity to a sinker on the bottom i.e. a rod at whose end is fastened a hook
  • the chain is anchored at one end on the surface to the pier and at the other end to the sinker on the bottom.
  • the sinker or fixed body is normally constituted by a heavy cement block having anchoring functions.
  • two lines are retrieved, to be secured to two bow cleats.
  • Another prior art provides for mooring posts anchored on the bottom and emerging on the surface, but in this case the surface of the water is dotted by the presence of a plurality of posts that practically form obligated mooring ways that are rather hazardous and difficult to centre by the boats, especially for those who are not particularly versed in steering such boats. Therefore, this kind of anchoring technique is not widely used.
  • An object of the present invention is to eliminate the aforesaid drawbacks making available a method and an apparatus that enable to moor a boat rapidly and without dirtying oneself by easily finding and handling the mooring lines.
  • the method provides for blowing air into an element connected to a line lying on the sea-bottom in such a way as to cause it temporarily to surface.
  • the number 1 indicates a fixed pier or a floating jetty or a mole to which to moor boats 2.
  • a compressor 3 feeds compressed air to a plurality of routing units 4 through a conduit 5.
  • the number 6 indicates chains having a first end anchored to the pier 1 and another end anchored to a fixed body 7, called sinker, positioned on a sea-bottom or sea-floor 20.
  • the sinker is normally a block of cement or other material suitable to constitute an anchoring point on the sea-bottom.
  • lines 8 are fastened to the chain and it is therefore the chain that must be retrieved, with the help of a boat hook, until finding the lines that enable to moor the bow of a boat 2 by using appropriate cleats 9, after the stem is moored by means of additional cleats 10 and a line, not shown, anchored to the pier.
  • the lines 8 have a free end for anchoring and an end connected to an element 11 which is shaped in such a way as to be able to retain air blown into its interior.
  • the element 11 can be for example an inflatable balloon (as in the illustrated embodiment) or an umbrella-shaped or cone-shaped body, open inferiorly.
  • the element 11 in turn is connected directly or indirectly to the fixed body 7.
  • the element 11 is substantially airless and it lies on the sea-bottom.
  • This is preferably a conduit, or rubber sleeve, or tube made of soft plastic, in whose interior runs an air hose together with a small chain or steel cable connected to the sinker.
  • the off-take conduit ends in the element 11 in such a way that the air blown inside said element causes it temporarily to surface, allowing easily to retrieve the line or the lines connected thereto.
  • the element 11 should remain on the surface, it would in any case be destined to return to the sea-bottom at the time of the unmooring of the boat, because it is dragged on the bottom by the weight of the lines (to the lines can also be associated additional weights to promote their descent on the sea-bottom when unmooring).
  • the original unit 4 regulates the various steps of inflating and deflating the element 11. Commands can be given through pushbuttons or levers present on the unit itself or by means of a remote control with multiple pushbuttons.
  • the activation of the injection of compressed air is achieved by opening a valve of the unit 4 whilst a Venturi type of valve operates for deflation.
  • the invention overcomes the drawback of having to operate hazardously from the side of the boat to grip the chain from the pier pulling it by strength of hand from the bottom to make the lines emerge, and that of soiling the user and the side of the boat with mud.
  • each off-take conduit 12 is then associated the mooring of a boat by means of one or two lines for the bow cleats.
  • the off-take conduit 12 is preferably associated to a chain wound thereto or incorporate therein by means of a heat-shrinking plasticised containment band.
  • the chain can be engaged to the existing chain 6, or to the sinker 7, or to an additional sinker.
  • Air pressure is preferably between 0.8 bar and 3 bar.
  • the unit 4, which constitutes means to blow air into the element 11 in such a way as to cause it temporarily to surface comprises an inlet conduit 13 fed by the compressor 3 with compressed air at the pressure of about 8 bar.
  • the inlet conduit 13 splits in two branches: a branch comprises a pressure reducer 14 (from 8 to about 1.5 bar, or otherwise a value between 0.8 and 3 bar) and a two-way blowing valve 15, whilst the other branch comprises an electrical valve 16 that activates deflation using a Venturi type valve 17 that works in a vacuum with the piping segment 18.
  • a branch comprises a pressure reducer 14 (from 8 to about 1.5 bar, or otherwise a value between 0.8 and 3 bar) and a two-way blowing valve 15, whilst the other branch comprises an electrical valve 16 that activates deflation using a Venturi type valve 17 that works in a vacuum with the piping segment 18.
  • valve 15 opens towards the conduit 12 letting flow the air destined to inflate the element 11, whilst the valve 16 remains closed.
  • the air When the inflation is complete, the air re-enters from the off-take conduit 12 through the valve 15 towards the Venturi valve 17 and flows outside the unit through an outlet conduit 19.
  • the valve 16 can be open.
  • the unit 4 is powered by one or two 12 V batteries, but it can also be connected to the 220 V mains normally present, in this case adopting an intermediate transformer.

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EP07111865A 2006-08-28 2007-07-05 Procédé et appareil pour faire émerger des lignes d'amarres du fond marin Withdrawn EP1902939A3 (fr)

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ITSP20060013 ITSP20060013A1 (it) 2006-08-28 2006-08-28 Impianto per fare emergere dal fondale cime per attracco nautico

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ES2382970A1 (es) * 2012-03-30 2012-06-15 Tecnologia Nautica Sl Sistema de ayuda remoto para amarre en puerto

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DE3432868A1 (de) * 1984-09-07 1986-03-20 Lempen, Sybille, 8432 Beilngries Festmacherboje mit aufblasbarem schwimmkoerper
EP0502219A1 (fr) * 1991-02-18 1992-09-09 Calmat Ab Dispositif d'amarrage d'un navire
FR2813578A1 (fr) * 2000-09-05 2002-03-08 Olaf Oliver Oettinger Dispositif de mouillage
FR2813579A1 (fr) * 2000-09-05 2002-03-08 Olaf Oliver Oettinger Dispositif de mouillage
EP1186528A1 (fr) * 2000-09-05 2002-03-13 Olaf Oliver Oettinger Dispositif de mouillage submersible muni de moyens de dègonflage propres
EP1314641A2 (fr) * 2001-11-23 2003-05-28 Thomas Lehmisch Dispositif et méthode pour présenter une amarre immergée dans l'eau lors de l'accostage d'engins marins dans un port

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DE3432868A1 (de) * 1984-09-07 1986-03-20 Lempen, Sybille, 8432 Beilngries Festmacherboje mit aufblasbarem schwimmkoerper
EP0502219A1 (fr) * 1991-02-18 1992-09-09 Calmat Ab Dispositif d'amarrage d'un navire
FR2813578A1 (fr) * 2000-09-05 2002-03-08 Olaf Oliver Oettinger Dispositif de mouillage
FR2813579A1 (fr) * 2000-09-05 2002-03-08 Olaf Oliver Oettinger Dispositif de mouillage
EP1186528A1 (fr) * 2000-09-05 2002-03-13 Olaf Oliver Oettinger Dispositif de mouillage submersible muni de moyens de dègonflage propres
EP1314641A2 (fr) * 2001-11-23 2003-05-28 Thomas Lehmisch Dispositif et méthode pour présenter une amarre immergée dans l'eau lors de l'accostage d'engins marins dans un port

Cited By (1)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
ES2382970A1 (es) * 2012-03-30 2012-06-15 Tecnologia Nautica Sl Sistema de ayuda remoto para amarre en puerto

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