EP2057066B1 - Device for a watercraft for picking up and launching boats - Google Patents

Abstract

The invention relates to a device for a watercraft for picking up and launching boats. The device comprises an extension arm that is coupled in such a manner that it can swing freely on the watercraft, that extends at an acute angle in relation to the surface of the water and floats in water by means of floats. The extension arm comprises guide tracks for a boat retrieving device that is maintained on the extension arm in a longitudinally displaceable manner. The boat retrieving device comprises a holding head that is articulated in a displaceable manner on a running part guided on the guide rails, about an axis that is horizontal and approximately transversal in relation to the extension arm. The running part is connected to the drive means for longitudinally displacing the boat retrieving device. The holding head comprises at least one adjusting means that acts upon its adjusting movement about the horizontal axis.

Description

The invention relates to a device for a vessel for receiving and suspending boats, with a boom whose one end about a horizontal axis is pivoted freely hinged to the vessel so that it extends at an acute angle to the water surface, wherein it floats in the water by means of arranged in the region of the free end buoyancy bodies, and with guide rails for a longitudinally movably held on the boom boat catcher, for the longitudinal movement of the drive means are provided, the formation of the boat-catching is similar to a carriage, the boat between receiving side walls are at least partially designed as each pivotable about a vertical axis gripper arms, and wherein the boot catcher has pivot means for the gripper arms and a holding head on which the gripper arms are articulated.

A device of the aforementioned type is according to the patent DE 195 00 182 C2 known.

In the known device, the free end of the boom is below the water surface and is held by buoyancy body in a predetermined floating position. The boat catcher is longitudinally movable on the boom and is located near the submerged free end of the boom when the boat is received. The catcher is thereby also at least partially submerged below the water surface. Once the boat is retracted into the boat catcher between the gripper legs, the gripper legs may close. The catcher may then be driven up the boom, during transport along the boom first the bow portion of the boat emerges. The submerged bow area is therefore no longer involved in the buoyancy of the boat, so that his still floating rear area dives deeper into the water The boat gets into an undesirable inclination or it is still floating in the water, forced into an oblique position, which is approximately parallel to the oblique Level of the boom runs.

The invention has for its object to improve the known device with regard to the picking or Aussetzvorganges.

This object is solved by the features of patent claim 1. Further developments and advantageous embodiments will become apparent from the dependent claims. To solve the problem underlying the invention, the invention provides that the boot-catching device is movable about an axis oriented horizontally and approximately transversely to the boom. The running part is connected to the drive means for the longitudinal movement of the boat-catching device, and the holding head has at least one adjusting movement effecting it about the horizontal axis. The boat catcher is thus articulated on the traveling part movable along the boom via the holding head by means of a joint which allows movement of the catching device about an axis extending horizontally and transversely to the boom. Inclinations with the resulting buoyancy problems that have adverse effects, especially in waves are avoided by the fact that the entire boat catcher at a predetermined angle to the oblique Level bring the boom z. B. in that an adjusting movement about the horizontal axis by means of the actuating means can take place.

With particular advantage, the holding head with the horizontal axis forming bearing in the region of the front end of the boot catcher, wherein the front end of the boot catcher corresponds to the mounting bracket of the boom on the ship side facing. Of course, it is also possible to provide the holding head more or less behind the front end of the boat catcher. It is essential that it is arranged so that a possibility of folding the catching device results around the horizontal axis, with the advantage that the male boat as long as possible in a horizontal position with optimal buoyancy buoyancy remains until it together with the boat catcher Boom has climbed so far that it has come more or less completely out of the water. Once this position is reached, the actuating means causes an actuating movement, that is, the holding head and thus the boat catcher is pivoted about the horizontal axis until the boat has taken an approximately parallel alignment with the boom. If the boat has reached this position, it can be moved completely along the boom and, if necessary, can be brought through an opening in the side wall of the watercraft into the interior of the watercraft.

The gripper legs, which practically form a gripping pliers, are articulated on the holding head in such a way that they can be opened and closed, preferably in the end position in which the boot catching device is located at the free end of the deployed outrigger.

The adjusting means for carrying out the adjusting movement of the holding head or the boat-catching device coupled thereto has at least one steering lever arranged on the holding head and one on the delivery arm arranged steering track for the deflection of the steering arm movable along the steering column. For a structurally simple mechanical design of an actuating means is given. The design is made such that each guide rail has at least one track portion which is formed as a leading edge, which projects into the movement path along which the steering lever is guided during a movement of the boot catcher along the boom. The steering column thus fulfills the function similar to a curve control and is designed so that it pivots the steering lever by deflection when the steering lever departs the steering column. This shutdown occurs during a longitudinal movement of the boat catcher along the boom.

Of course, it is also possible voody as adjusting means appropriate mechanics, for example, on the steering arm attacking working cylinder. Stellmotore with appropriate gears that could act on the holding head arranged steering lever to move the holding head and thus the boat catcher to the horizontal axis, are quite possible.

The boom is in the known device composed of profile bars grid construction. The profile bars are sealed hollow sections at the end, which are arranged running parallel and in the longitudinal direction of the boom. The hollow profiles also form the guide rails for the boat catcher.

The running part is advantageously formed by means of the drive means movable trolley, which is movable along the guide rails of the boom with the entrainment of the holding head and the articulated thereon gripper legs of the boat catcher. Of course, it is also possible to form the running part as guided on the guide rails carriages.

At least one of the guide rails a steering track is arranged, which is provided for the deflection of the guide rail departing steering lever of the holding head. The guide rail can also be designed as a steering track.

The boot catcher has pivoting means for the gripper legs in order to be able to open and close the gripper legs in a plier-like manner. The pivot means may e.g. Be working cylinder. Each pivoting means has a pivot lever located on the respective gripper limb in the region of its articulation on the holding head and a pivot lever actuating device acting on the pivot lever. An acting on the pivot lever working cylinder could form such a pivot lever actuator of a pivoting means.

With particular advantage, each pivoting lever actuating device is a traction device fastened to the pivot lever and a pressure medium supported on the arm. The pressure medium can e.g. be a compression spring, which is supported on the boom to release zuglosem traction means stored in it bias, through which the gripper arms are pivoted in the spread position at which the boat catcher is open. The traction means may e.g. a rope made of suitable mechanisms, e.g. Also, a working cylinder or electric winches, can be set under tension, which can be on the pivot lever, and thus transferred to the gripper arms. By pulling the gripper arms are brought into the closed position, in which they include the male boat between them. At the same time the tensile force for the deflection of the pressure medium is available.

According to a particularly advantageous embodiment, the drive means for the Longitudinal movement of the boat catcher along the boom on a cable drive with at least one winch and with a running over multiple deflections endless rope. With such an endless rope and the traction means of the pivot lever actuator can be connected, so that the drive means not only serve solely for the movement of the boat catcher along the boom, but at the same time also pivoting the gripper arms of the boat catcher for receiving the retracted between the gripper arm boat to get.

The device according to the invention is therefore relatively easy to operate. It is only a single to be controlled drive member for the winch required, which is to be supplied with drive energy. All movements that take place on the device for receiving or suspending a boat are effected and controlled by the winch and the endless rope.

The endless rope is struck by a suitable connecting element on the catching device, preferably on the holding head of the catching device. The endless rope runs over several deflections, one of which is designed as an operable cable tensioner. The cable tensioner can z. Example, have a working cylinder which engages the bearing of the deflection roller and thus the entire deflection roller can move so that the endless rope is stretched or relaxed.

The endless rope also runs over other deflections, one of which is located at the free end of the boom, to an external winch. This is preferably installed in the interior of the vessel, especially there in an area in which a recorded boat is pulled and in which the entire boom can be accommodated, for example by retracting its storage.

The endless cable of the drive means can transmit tensile forces to the traction means of the pivoting lever actuating device for the gripper arms. By the operation of the winch, the traction means of the pivot lever actuator z. B. carry along. This is achieved in that the present as a rope traction means mounted on the boat catcher pulleys and a loose role. With the storage of the loose roller at least a part of the brought up by the winds of the drive means endless rope is connected.

This embodiment has the advantage that, the drive means for the boat catcher in conjunction with the formation of one of the deflections of the endless rope, as an actuatable cable tensioner, for generating a movement of the loose roller can be used. The cable tensioner thus ultimately acts as a pivoting means for the gripper arms of the boat catcher. The actuation of the cable tensioner, for example by means of a working cylinder, causes the tensioned endless cable to pull on the loose roller over which the traction means of the pivot lever actuating device runs. This tensioning movement of the loose roller generates a tensile force in the traction means present as a cable, which leads to the pivoting of the respective pivoting lever, which are assigned to one of the gripper arms. As a result, each gripper limb is then also moved, and with advantage in a closing movement. At the same time by this closing movement of the gripper arm, the pressure medium coupled to it of the pivot lever actuator is biased. This is possible in that the pressure means is a compression spring which stores the pressure force generated by the closing movement of the gripper arms and can release again when the cable tensioner of the endless rope is operated so that the endless rope is slack. This is possible when the boat-catching device with the drive means, ie, with the winch and the endless rope, has moved into an end position, where the boat catcher is at the free end of the boom. In this position, the boat catcher is at least partially deposited below the water surface.

For the cable tensioner or its working cylinder and for the winch controls or controllable for the winch controls are provided, which are equipped with a mutually influencing their operation coupling member. This ensures that the winch can not work as long as the cable tensioner is activated and vice versa.

The control device for the winch and the control of the cable tensioner are preferably coupled together by a programmable open-loop and closed-loop control electronics, with the control electronics having a special advantage being a wireless remote control. This makes it possible to control both the operation of the winch and the operation of the cable tensioner and thus ultimately the boot-catcher, in compliance with the above-described safety circuits from the male or recorded boat.

Fig.1:

eine schematische Seitenansicht der Vorrichtung zum Aufnehmen und Aussetzen von Booten

Fig. 2:

eine schematische Draufsicht der Vorrichtung gemäß Fig. 1

Fig. 3:

eine Prinzipskizze der Vorrichtung in einer Seitenansicht entsprechend Fig. 1 und

Fig. 4:

eine Ansicht einer Einzelheit aus der Prinzipskizze in Richtung des Pfeils IV in Fig. 3 gesehen.

An embodiment of the invention, from which further inventive features arise, is shown in the drawing. Show it:

Fig.1:

a schematic side view of the device for receiving and suspending boats

Fig. 2:

a schematic plan view of the device according to Fig. 1

3:

a schematic diagram of the device in a side view accordingly Fig. 1 and

4:

a view of a detail from the schematic diagram in the direction of arrow IV in Fig. 3 seen.

In the Fig. 1 shown view of a device for receiving and suspending boats 1, this has a boom 2, which is articulated freely pivotable about a horizontal axis 4 with a free end at the here indicated by a vertical line 3 of its outline watercraft. With the free end of the boom 2 is held at an acute angle to the water surface 5. The hinged end of the boom 2 is located above the water surface 5, so that the boom 2 as an inclined ramp between the water surface 5 and the axis 4 extends. In the region of its free end, a boat-catching device 6 is arranged on the boom 2, in which a boat 1 is received. Different positions of the boot catcher 6 with the boat 1 with respect to the longitudinal extension of the boom 2 are indicated by dash-dotted lines.

The design of the boat catcher 6 is similar to that of a slip-car. The boat catching device 6 has a holding head 7, which is hinged to a running part 8 about a horizontal and approximately transversely to the boom 2 aligned axis 9 adjustable.

The running part 8 is connected to drive means 10 for its movement, and thus to the boot catcher 6 including boat 1 along the boom 2.

The holding head 7 has at least one actuating movement about the horizontal axis 9 effecting adjusting means. The adjusting means is here designed so that it has at least one arranged on the holding head 7 steering lever 11, and a boom 2 arranged on the steering track 12 for the deflection of the steering lever 9, when the boat-catching device, and thus their holding head, which has the steering lever, is moved along the boom with the drive element 10.

With the drive means 10, the boat catcher 6 is lowered along the boom to its lower, lowered into the water free end. In this position, the boat 1 can be retracted and fixed in the boat catcher. Then close the gripper legs of the boat catcher, which are also hinged to the holding head 7. Once the gripper legs 14, 14 'are closed, the drive means may begin to pull the traveling part 8, on which the holding head 7 is articulated, upwardly out of the water along the boom 2. The boat 1 initially retains its horizontal floating position because the steering lever 11 is deflected obliquely upward from the steering track 12 during the longitudinal movement along the boom 2. The steering lever 11 runs on a track portion of the steering track 12, which is formed as a leading edge 113, and because this protrudes into the movement path along which the steering lever 11 is movable during a movement of the boot catcher along the boom 2, holds the steering lever 11 during further upward movement of the boat catcher, the boat received therein at a predetermined angle to the boom.

Only when the boat-catching device has been pulled up so far that it has approached the upper end articulated about the axis 4 of the boom, the casserole edge 113 transferred by the steering lever 11, the holding head 7 back into a position in which the boot-catcher. 6 , and in particular the boat received therein, approximately parallel to the boom finds.

Fig. 2 shows a view of the device according to Fig. 1 , seen from above. Identical components are designated by the same reference numbers.

Fig. 2 illustrates in particular the design of the boat-catching device with two about perpendicular axes folding gripper arms 13 and 14, which are collapsible to a position in which the gripper arms 13 ', 14' hold the recorded between them boat 1.

Fig. 2 shows that the boom 2 is formed as a frame construction with two substantially parallel longitudinal beams, which serve as guide rails 15 and 16 for the present as a rolling truck running part 8. The guide rails are designated 15 and 16. The boat catcher 6 has pivot means for the gripper legs 13 and 14. Each pivot means comprises a respective gripper legs 13 and 14 in the region of its articulation 17, 17 'located on the holding head 6 pivot lever 18, 18' and acting on the pivot lever pivot lever actuator. Each pivot lever actuating device has a pulling means 19 (dash-dotted line) fastened to the pivoting lever 18, 18 'and a pressure means 20 or 20' which is supported on the boom 2 and can be prestressed by the tension of the pulling means 19. Each traction means 19 is a cable, which is connected via deflection rollers 21 mounted on the boat catching device 6 and a loose roller 22, with whose bearing 23 the endless cable 25 brought up by the winch 24 of the drive means is connected.

The drive means 10 thus has a cable drive with at least one winch 24 and an endless cable 25 extending over multiple deflections 27 and 28.

Fig. 3 is a schematic schematic view of the device accordingly Fig.1 , Identical components are designated by the same reference numbers.

Fig. 3 illustrates that the boat catcher 6 with its gripper legs 13 (or 13 ', 14 and 14') about a vertical axis 26th pivotally hinged to the holding head 7. The holding head 7 is in turn articulated about a horizontal and approximately transversely to the boom 2 aligned axis 4 adjustable to the running part 8, as it is Fig. 1 is described.

The endless cable 25 extends over a plurality of deflections 27, one of which is located at the free end of the boom 2. The endless rope runs from there back to the winch 24 and it can carry the trolley 8 along. In this embodiment, however, it is provided that the endless rope is knocked off once on the trolley and on the other hand on the loose roller 22, and their storage 23rd

About the loose roller 22, the traction means 19, via a plurality of pulleys 21 to attack the pivot means 18, by means of which the gripper lever 13 about the vertical axis 17 'can be pivoted.

With the drive means 10, or with the winch 24 of the drive means of the carriage 8 is pulled with the gripper legs 13 by means of the endless cable 25 via the deflection 27 at the front end of the boom until the carriage below the water surface in the region of the free end of the boom. 2 has submerged. In this case, a recorded between the gripper arms 13 boat 1 can float ( Fig. 1 ).

If the carriage 8 has reached this end position in the region of the free end of the boom 2, the winch 24 of the drive means 10 stops.

One of the deflections 27 for the endless cable 25 is, as here in Fig. 3 indicated, designed as a cable tensioner. The cable tensioner has a working cylinder 30 with piston rod 31, the free end of the Storage of a deflecting tension roller 32 of the cable tensioner 29 is connected.

In Fig. 3 is the tension roller 32 by means of the piston rod 31 moved so far that the traction means 19 is relatively de-energized. In the Fig. 1 shown pressure means which are biased, therefore, the gripper legs 13, 14 about the vertical axes 17, 17 'pivot outwardly into an open position. Once the boat is retracted between the gripper arms 13, 14, pressure medium is pumped into the working cylinder 30, whereby the piston rod 31 retracts while the tension roller 32, the endless cable 25 biases. This causes the loose roller 22 to be pulled, so that the traction means 19 is put under tensile force. This tensile force causes the gripper legs 13 and 14 in the in Fig. 2 pivot position shown in which they hold the recorded boat 1 between them. If the tensioning roller 32 is fixed in this position, then the boat-catching device 6 with the boat 1 received therein can be pulled out of the water by means of the endless rope 25 during operation with the winch 24 along the boom.

Fig. 4 is a schematic top view of the device in the direction of arrow IV in Fig. 3 seen. Identical components are designated by the same reference numbers.

Fig. 4 illustrates in particular the course of the traction means 19 via the loose roller 22, which can be moved by means of the not visible here cable tensioner 29 by tensioning the endless cable 25. By this movement, which takes place relative to the thereby captured on the boom by means of the endless rope boat catcher 6, train is applied to the traction means 19, which acts on the pivot lever 18,18 'at the ends of the gripper arms 13, 14, that the gripper arms in the direction of arrows 33 and 33 'about the vertical axis 26 after pan inside. The traction means 19, as shown here, runs over a plurality of deflection rollers 21 mounted on the boat catching device 6.

In this embodiment, the drive means with the winch and the cable tensioner on the boom 2 are arranged. Preferably, however, the drive means are housed within the ship, so external to the boom, and thus protected

It is quite possible to equip predetermined pulleys with working cylinders that allow a similar movement of the bearing of the respective guide pulley, allowing the movements of the bearings taking place upon actuation of the winch to be supported or compensated. Of course, only with the working cycles and a corresponding movement of elements of the catching device executable when the winch is out of service.

Safety circuits are of course common and with particular advantage, a remote control is used, for example, a radio remote control to operate from the boat both the drive means and the boat-catcher and control.

Claims (17)

1. A device for a watercraft for receiving and releasing boats (1), with a cantilever arm (2), the one end of which is articulated on the watercraft such that it can pivot freely about a horizontally aligned axis (4), such that it extends at an acute angle towards the water surface (5), wherein it floats in the water by means of lifting bodies arranged in the region of the free end, and with guide rails (15, 16) for a boat retrieval unit (6) held on the cantilever arm (2) such that it can move longitudinally, for which longitudinal movement drive means (10) are provided, wherein the design of the boat retrieval unit (6) is similar to that of a launching trolley, whose sidewalls receiving the boat (1) between them are at least partly designed as gripper arms (13, 14) that can pivot in each case about a vertical axis, and wherein the boat retrieval device (6) has a pivoting means for the gripper arms (13, 14) and a supporting head (7), on which the gripper arms (13, 14) are articulated,
   characterised in that,
   the supporting head (7) is articulated in a positionable manner on a runner (8) about a horizontal axis (9) that is aligned transverse to the cantilever arm, and has at least one positioning means effecting a positioning movement about the horizontal axis, wherein the runner (8) is connected with the drive means (10) for the longitudinal movement of the boat retrieval unit (6), and wherein the drive means (10) at the same time serve as pivoting means for the gripper arms (13, 14).
2. The device in accordance with Claim 1, characterised in that, the positioning means has at least one steering arm (11) arranged on the supporting head (7), and also a steering track (12) arranged on the cantilever arm (2), for the deflection of the steering arm (11) that can be moved along the steering track (12).
3. The device in accordance with Claim 2, characterised in that, each steering track (12) has at least one track section, which is designed as a ramp flank (113), which projects into the movement track, along which the steering arm (11) can be moved in the event of a movement of the boat retrieval unit (6) along the cantilever arm (2).
4. The device in accordance with one of the Claims 1 to 3, characterised in that, the runner (8) is designed as a trolley that can be moved along the guide rails (15, 16) of the cantilever arm (2) by means of the drive means (10).
5. The device in accordance with one of the Claims 1 to 4, characterised in that, each pivoting means has a pivoting arm (18, 18') located on the respective gripper arm (13, 14) in the region of its articulation (17, 17') on the supporting head (7), and a pivoting arm actuation unit acting on the pivoting arm (18, 18').
6. The device in accordance with Claim 5, characterised in that, each pivoting arm actuation unit has a pulling means (19) attached to the pivoting arm (18, 18'), and also a pushing means (20, 20') supported on the cantilever arm (2), which can be pre-loaded by means of the pull of the pulling means (19).
7. The device in accordance with Claim 6, characterised in that, each pushing means (20, 20') is a compression spring.
8. The device in accordance with one of the Claims 1 to 7, characterised in that, each pulling means (19) is a cable, and in that the drive means (10) have a cable drive, with at least one winch (24) and with a continuous cable (25) running via multiple redirectional devices (27).
9. The device in accordance with one of the Claims 6 and 8, characterised in that, the pulling means (19) that is present as a cable runs over redirection rollers (21) mounted on the boat retrieval unit (6) and a free roller (22), with the mounting (23) of which the continuous cable (25) introduced from the winch (24) of the drive means (10), is connected.
10. The device in accordance with one of the Claims 1 to 9, characterised in that, at least one redirectional device (27) of the drive means (10) is designed as a cable tensioner (29) that can be actuated.
11. The device in accordance with Claim 10, characterised in that the cable tensioner (29) has a working ram (30).
12. The device in accordance with Claim 11, characterised in that, the working ram (30) has a piston rod (31) the free end of which is connected with the mounting of a redirectional tensioning roller (32) of the cable tensioner (29).
13. The device in accordance with one of the Claims 11 and 12, characterised in that, a controller is provided for the working ram (30).
14. The device in accordance with one of the preceding claims, characterised in that, the winch (24) has a controllable actuation unit.
15. The device in accordance with one of the Claims 13 and 14, characterised in that, between the controller of the working ram (30) and the actuation unit is arranged a coupling element mutually influencing their operation.
16. The device in accordance with Claim 15, characterised in that, the coupling element is designed as a programmable control and regulation electronic unit.
17. The device in accordance with Claim 16, characterised in that, the control and regulation electronic unit has a wireless remote controller.

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