EP2154061A2 - Dispositif et procédé de nettoyage d'objets se trouvant dans de l'eau - Google Patents

Dispositif et procédé de nettoyage d'objets se trouvant dans de l'eau Download PDF

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EP2154061A2
EP2154061A2 EP09166792A EP09166792A EP2154061A2 EP 2154061 A2 EP2154061 A2 EP 2154061A2 EP 09166792 A EP09166792 A EP 09166792A EP 09166792 A EP09166792 A EP 09166792A EP 2154061 A2 EP2154061 A2 EP 2154061A2
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
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  • the invention relates to a device for cleaning surfaces located below the water surface of a body of water to the water of this body of objects to be cleaned according to the preamble of claim 1 and a method for operating this device according to the preamble of claim 13.
  • In-water objects such as Boats, yachts, ships, pontoons, etc.
  • these water is not pure water in the chemical sense. Rather, it is mixed with a variety of inorganic and organic substances and contaminated. This leads to the o.g. Surfaces come into contact with these substances. Particles are therefore deposited on these surfaces, so that the surfaces become dirty.
  • algae also settle on these surfaces. These algae can eventually form thick layers in which mussels and other living things can settle.
  • Particles which are deposited on the water-bearing surface of a vessel also affect the locomotion of this vessel even at lower speeds. Friction and turbulence not only limit the maximum speed of this craft but also affect the maneuverability of this vessel. In particular, a heavily contaminated watercraft can react comparatively sluggishly to pivoting of a rudder blade to change a direction of travel and implement intentional changes in direction less precisely. A heavily contaminated vessel is therefore also a safety hazard because it compromises the ability of the vessel to precisely avoid obstacles.
  • the cleaning on land by means of mechanical devices, such as spatula and brushes.
  • high pressure cleaners that provide a jet of water at a high pressure are used to detach particles.
  • the cleaned particles do not get back into the water during the cleaning on land, which is an advantage over the manual cleaning of particles of an object to be cleaned in the water.
  • the cleaned particles should also be collected on land and disposed of as hazardous waste, because they usually contain environmental toxins.
  • this known device for cleaning objects located in the water has the disadvantage that maintenance of the device located in the water itself is cumbersome. This results in downtime, in which the device can not be used to clean objects located in the water. This either reduces the revenues of an operator of this device or requires a higher usage fee to compensate for these shortfalls.
  • Another disadvantage of this known device is that the number of objects to be cleaned or the number of customers is limited in one place and therefore there are possibly times when the plant is at a standstill. These downtimes can unfavorably shift the ratio of the operator's investment cost to the operator's revenue.
  • the invention is therefore based on the problem of increasing the utilization of such a device for cleaning surfaces of objects located in a body of water or to reduce the costs for operating this device.
  • the invention solves this problem by a device according to claim 1 and a method according to claim 13.
  • the device according to the invention can be transferred from a first position to a second position, which facilitates the effective operation of the device according to the invention and saves the operator costs and / or enables additional revenue.
  • the device For cleaning surfaces located below the water surface of a body of objects completely or partly located below this water surface, the device is in accordance with the invention in a cleaning position. From this cleaning position, this device can be transferred to a parking position. In this parking position, the device is moved vertically upwards relative to the cleaning position.
  • the draft indicates the vertical distance between the lowest point of the device and the water surface of the water body.
  • the device can be more easily spent floating on the water to another location. Waters often have a depth, at least in some areas, which is not much greater than the depth of vessels in them. For cleaning such a vessel, the draft of the device must be greater than the draft of this vessel. The draft of the device can even be significantly greater than the draft of a watercraft to be cleaned. For example.
  • the device can be operated in a body of water, which has only a relatively small depth of water in large parts. To be cleaned vessels in this case also have a relatively low draft.
  • the device according to the invention can be moved in the park position, in which it has a very low draft, in such waters with, as it were, a relatively shallow depth of water.
  • the device Only in the cleaning position, the device requires a greater depth of water.
  • the device can thus be transported by water to various locations where it is transferred to the cleaning of objects in the cleaning position, or possibly move independently there. For independent movement, a drive is provided on the device.
  • a costly lifting of the device out of the water and an expensive transport by land are avoidable.
  • it may be financially worthwhile for an operator of the device to temporarily transfer the device to places to which it refers the waterways can only be transferred in the park position. This thus contributes to a better utilization of the device.
  • the device can be transferred from the cleaning position to the parking position for maintenance purposes.
  • the parking position there are numerous components of the device above the water surface.
  • the brushes which can be pivoted to the surface of the object to be cleaned are located in the parking position substantially above the water surface. Preferably, the brushes are completely above the water surface.
  • the device can be transferred from the cleaning position to the parking position in just a few minutes.
  • a transfer to the parking position can therefore be routinely carried out without long downtime of the device would result.
  • daily can be a visual inspection of parts of the device, in particular of moving parts such as brushes. Possible damage to the device are thus quickly recognizable. Larger damage can thus be avoided in many cases. Smaller unrecognized damage often leads to major consequential damage.
  • a waiting of moving parts or an exchange of parts of the device is easily carried out in the parking position of the device. For this, the device does not have to be lifted out of the water on land.
  • An operator of the device according to the invention saves maintenance costs and repair costs.
  • the possibility of moving the device vertically into a parking position results in a lower operating cost of such a device, a more cost-effective transfer of this device to different sites, and a greater number of possible sites of use and time of possible use. thereby increasing overall revenue from a usage fee of the device as well as lowering operating costs of this device. Possibly. As a result, the usage fees charged for cleaning an object by the operator of the device can also be lowered. This increases the attractiveness of cleaning an object in an environmentally friendly manner compared with alternative cleaning methods by means of the device according to the invention.
  • the device has one or more floatable buoyancy bodies, in particular trim tanks or ballast tanks.
  • the device can be easily transferred from the parking position into the cleaning position or from the cleaning position into the parking position.
  • the buoyancy bodies In the cleaning position of the device are the buoyancy bodies flooded, that is they are at least partially filled with water. This water is bound in the device and thus increases the mass of the device. Mass is sluggish. The force necessary to accelerate the device increases proportionally with the mass of this device.
  • the mass of water in the one or more flooded buoyancy bodies contributes to the stability of the device in the water. When cleaning an object, it is therefore quieter in the water.
  • the device is moved vertically up to the parking position by the buoys are emptied.
  • the water in the buoyancy bodies is preferably pumped out of the flooded buoyancy bodies by means of a water pump.
  • the buoyancy bodies can be emptied substantially completely. However, water may also remain in the buoyant bodies. It must be pumped out only so much water from the floats until the device takes the parking position. In the cleaning position or in the parking position, the buoyant bodies can be completely or incompletely flooded or emptied.
  • the device can be transferred by flooding the buoyancy of the parking position in the cleaning position, that is vertically displaced downwards.
  • the water of the water is used.
  • a water pump pumps this water from the water into the buoyancy bodies.
  • an opening is released, in particular a valve is opened to allow water from the water to flow into the buoyancy body.
  • the buoyancy bodies are in this case preferably U-shaped as a base frame of the device or are located in this base frame. This base frame is located at the bottom of the device and extends on a left side and on a right side of the device each vertically in height.
  • the left side of the device and the right side of the device thereby denote a position relative to a direction of passing the object through the device or a direction of passing the device on the object.
  • the port side and the starboard side of this vessel each face one of these two sides of the device.
  • the flooding or emptying of the buoyancy body is controllable such that the device does not get into an imbalance.
  • the device has tilt sensors. These inclination sensors detect an imbalance of the device and, in response to a detected imbalance, increase or restrict the supply of water to and from the floodable buoyant bodies, respectively, such that the device moves from the imbalance back into a horizontal lying web position.
  • the tilt sensors detect this even very low inclinations of the device, so that these inclinations can be compensated quickly and a substantially uniform lifting and lowering of the device is ensured.
  • the device has pontoons which lie in the cleaning position of the device in the region of the water surface.
  • These pontoons are buoyancy bodies, which prevent further lowering of the device, starting from the cleaning position of this device. These pontoons are therefore in the cleaning position of the device in the water surface of the body of water.
  • the buoyancy of these pontoons is sufficient to protect the device even with completely flooded buoyancy bodies from further sinking and thus a sinking. Although this could be achieved even with at least partially emptied floodable buoyancy bodies, in particular by a non-complete flooding of the existing floatable buoyancy of the device. However, due to operator error or due to a technical defect, it could happen there that the floodable buoyancy bodies are still completely flooded and the device goes down.
  • floatable floats could be flooded to a different height. This would lead to an inclined position or to an unstable position of the device floating in the water.
  • the pontoons allow the device to float in a stable position and prevent a further drop, in particular a sinking, of the device.
  • the pontoons are preferably located on the right side and on the left side of the device and are formed as webs. These webs may enter, for example, an operator of the device to monitor a cleaning process from one side.
  • the device according to the invention or the base frame of the device has vertical guide rails, via which further buoyant assemblies are connected to the base frame such that these assemblies, regardless of the position of the device or the base frame, a substantially fixed vertical Take position relative to the water surface.
  • the buoyant assemblies are formed as webs pontoons.
  • the vertical guide rails are located respectively at the beginning and at the end of the left side and the right side of the base frame of the device. In the cleaning position of the apparatus, these floating assemblies formed as webs join the pontoons of the left and the right side of the device formed as webs. As a result, the webs extend, which facilitates access to the webs formed as pontoons of the left and the right side of the device.
  • buoyant assemblies are designed as Einfahr kaun or Ausfahr kaun.
  • This Einfahr kaun and Ausfahr Anlagenn namely have centering, in particular friction wheels, which are arranged on horizontal, in particular about a vertical axis, pivotable brackets and which center the incoming or extending to be cleaned or cleaned object and move. If these retracting aids and extension aids were mounted on the sides of the base frame of the device, this base frame of the device would have to be correspondingly longer.
  • the other buoyant assemblies make it possible to keep the base frame and thus the device, especially in the parking position, compact.
  • buoyant assemblies Due to the vertical guide rails, via which the buoyant assemblies are connected to the base frame, these assemblies remain substantially fixed in their vertical position relative to the water surface when the device is transferred from the cleaning position to the parking position. For example, a user may enter another buoyant assembly while the base frame changes position with all of its fixed parts. The device and in particular the transfer to another position can be controllable from one of these further buoyant assemblies.
  • the other buoyant assemblies In the parking position of the device preferably webs connect on the left side and on the right side of the device, the other buoyant assemblies. From these webs various parts of the device and in particular the brushes are accessible. In addition, the floatable assemblies of one side can be aligned in the direction of the other side. Then webs from these buoyant assemblies connect the left side and the right side of the device. This facilitates the maintenance and possible repair of the device, since interconnected webs are now on all sides of the device. A user can thus easily and quickly get to another location of the device.
  • buoyant assemblies of one side in the direction of the other buoyant assemblies of the other side have.
  • buoyant assemblies connected to two webs connect the left side of the device to the right side of the device.
  • no objects or vessels to be cleaned can then enter or leave the device.
  • the device has one or more devices for the extraction of substantially fluid waste.
  • the device has one or more containers for collecting and storing the extracted waste.
  • Waste is especially hazardous substances and / or feces.
  • Hazardous substances are especially oily waste.
  • so-called bilge water accumulates in watercraft. This bilge water is essentially a mixture of condensed water, oily waste, for example from a ship's engine, and possibly fuel residues from this machine. These essentially fluid wastes accumulate on vessels and must be disposed of from time to time. It is advantageous if this happens during a ship cleaning or immediately before or after. This saves a ship's user time and money. The ship's user does not need to call at a port to dispose of this waste.
  • the device for sucking off bilge water has an oil separator.
  • This oil separator separates aqueous from oily components of bilge water.
  • the container for temporarily storing the oily components of the bilge water must therefore be emptied less frequently than a container for temporarily storing the bilge water with its aqueous components. Possibly.
  • the container for storing the oily ingredients may also be smaller in size, i. take up a smaller volume.
  • the one or more containers in a deflated condition are substantially decoupled from the vertical position of the apparatus and are floatingly supported on the apparatus, being guided in vertical guide rails on the apparatus.
  • these containers are lowered relative to the unfilled state, in particular as far as a stop frame. Due to the floating storage of containers, the level of these containers has no effect on the vertical position of the device in the cleaning position. Namely, unfilled submerged containers would provide additional buoyancy to the device.
  • filled containers located above the water surface could further lower the device. This is not desired in the cleaning position of the device.
  • the device has a device for sucking off contaminated particles of contaminated water and means for filtering out these particles from the extracted water. As a result, contamination of the water in the water is largely avoided.
  • the brushes clean the particles from the surface of the object to be cleaned. These cleaned particles are initially on the brushes and in the immediate vicinity of the brush in the water of the water. These brushes strip the particles adhering to them on a drip tray. Starting from this drip tray these particles are sucked together with the water from the immediate vicinity of the brushes. Consequently, the cleaned-off particles, together with water from the water, enter the device for filtering out these particles from the extracted water.
  • This device is an arbitrarily designed filter, which is able to filter out particles of water.
  • the device is a filter system constructed in several stages, which has a plurality of filter mats. The water essentially leaves the particles cleaned the means for filtering out these particles from the extracted water. The purified water is returned to the water. The cleaned particles, however, are collected in a container and stored there.
  • the device has a generator for generating electrical energy.
  • This generator may, for example, be a generator driven by a fuel-powered engine. Alternatively, for example, a photovoltaic generator or a wind generator can be used.
  • the generator supplies electrical components of the device, in particular electric motors and control electronics, with electrical energy.
  • the device does not have to be supplied with electrical energy via a cable from the land. Therefore, the device can also be used in places where a supply of electrical energy, for example. Via a cable, from the land is not possible. This increases the flexibility in possible places of use of the device.
  • the device has a plurality of pre-installed modules. This simplifies the assembly of the device on the one hand. On the other hand, it also simplifies a possible repair of the device. It is then possible to replace complete preinstalled modules. This lowers the cost of both an initial installation the device as well as in case of repair.
  • different embodiments of the device can be easily manufactured by the use of pre-installed modules. In that case, no changes have to be made to the modules. Only other assemblies are selected, these assemblies assembled differently or used in different numbers. For example. It may be useful to perform the device longer to clean longer ships and to use a higher number of means for centering.
  • the device advantageously has means for centering, in particular friction wheels. These friction wheels center the object to be cleaned on a cleaning path.
  • This cleaning path is arranged substantially centrally between the left side of the device and the right side of the device and parallel to the left and right sides.
  • the means for centering ensure that the object to be cleaned is always in a position in which the brushes can clean the object as best as possible, without damaging it.
  • the object to be cleaned should therefore not be able to drive off to one side of the device.
  • the brushes of the other side might not fulfill their function.
  • brushes on one side, to which an object to be cleaned has been driven off could damage parts of this object, in particular a keel or a screw.
  • the means of centering are therefore important for optimal and gentle cleaning of the object.
  • friction wheels can be a means of centering.
  • Even spacers with bristles or the brushes for cleaning itself can be means for centering or at least support the friction wheels in the centering of the object to be cleaned on the cleaning path.
  • the object to be cleaned in particular, if it is a watercraft, can be guided on the cleaning path between the left side of the device and the right side of the device in a sense of direction.
  • the device can accordingly be guided past this object in a directional sense.
  • "In a sense of direction" means that the direction of the object or device does not or only temporarily, for example, to reverse a cleaning of a back of the object to be cleaned.
  • a watercraft moves in the same direction in the device, as it leaves later. After passing through the device, a watercraft retracted into this device in the forward direction or pulled in by means of the friction wheels also leaves this device in the forward direction. It does not need to leave this device backwards.
  • the passage of an object to be cleaned by the device on the cleaning path in a sense of direction therefore has similarity to the implementation of a car in a car wash.
  • the possibility of being able to pass an object to be cleaned in a direction through the device or to be able to lead this device in a sense of direction on an object to be cleaned also has the advantage that the device does not limit the length of the object to be cleaned.
  • the object to be cleaned may be longer than the device. It can consequently be cleaned by means of the device watercraft of any common length, while this device can remain compact at the same time.
  • a change in the sense of direction of the object to be cleaned leads to a changed position of the brushes rubbing against this object. These brushes could thus get caught. Such a hooking of brushes can be substantially avoided by passing the object to be cleaned through the device according to the invention in a directional sense.
  • the friction wheels transport the object to be cleaned during a pass through the device or lead the device past the object to be cleaned.
  • the object to be cleaned does not need to have its own drive.
  • Other means for moving the object such as winches can be dispensed with.
  • This friction wheels are namely provided with a drive.
  • This drive can, for example, be a motor. Driven by this drive, the wheels rotate and transport the object to be cleaned relative to the device, with a static friction between the friction wheels and the object to be cleaned.
  • the brushes for cleaning rotate and have axes of rotation.
  • the position of these axes of rotation of the brushes is adapted to the surface of the object to be cleaned or to the surfaces of parts of the object to be cleaned.
  • the device therefore advantageously has brushes with substantially vertical axes of rotation for cleaning substantially vertical surfaces.
  • These substantially vertical surfaces are in water vehicles, for example, a left and a right side wall, a keel and / or a rudder blade.
  • the contact of the axes of rotation is optimized to these surfaces.
  • the cleaning effect of these brushes can be further increased.
  • the device also has brushes with substantially horizontal axes of rotation.
  • These brushes essentially clean horizontal surfaces.
  • these horizontal surfaces are all surfaces of a hull of this vessel to be cleaned, with the exception of the tailboard, keel and rudder blade.
  • the brushes with the substantially horizontal axes of rotation are better suited than brushes with differently oriented axes of rotation for cleaning substantially horizontal surfaces.
  • the horizontal axes of rotation can also be made flexible and, if necessary, adapt to deviations of the surfaces to be cleaned from the horizontal.
  • the brushes of the device are arranged in an advantageous embodiment of this device substantially mirror-inverted with respect to a vertical mirror surface.
  • This vertical mirror surface divides the already named cleaning path between the left side and the right side of the device, in turn, into a left side and a right side.
  • the vertical mirror surface thus runs centrally through the cleaning path and in the middle between an arrangement of the brushes.
  • the brushes are namely pivoted against the surface of the object to be cleaned and thus exert pressure on this surface.
  • the pivoting takes place here by means of floatable brush rollers of the brushes and by means of buoyant pools in which these brushes are mounted. Both the brush rollers and the pans generate buoyancy which pivots the brushes against the surface of the object to be cleaned. Possibly. In addition, a pivoting of the brushes or holders of the brushes against the surface of the object to be cleaned hydraulically.
  • the brushes are on brush holders, which are designed as baffles. These brush holders pivot the brushes away from protruding components of the object to be cleaned. Namely, these components press against the baffles, whereby the guide plates with the brush press away from these components.
  • the baffles preferably bristles or round brushes. The protruding component then presses against the bristles or round brushes, which then pivot away from the protruding component together with the brush holders and the brushes.
  • the baffles can also be designed in several parts and movable. In particular, they can be designed conveyor belt-like. When pushing away the baffles of protruding components of the object to be cleaned namely rub these baffles or bristles or round brushes on the object to be cleaned.
  • the conveyor belt like design of the baffles or possibly a rotating mounting of the round brushes reduces this friction and protects the surface of the object to be cleaned.
  • the brushes in particular the side wall brushes, textile cleaning agents, in particular felt disks, which are rotatably mounted about a common axis and by means of spacing means, in particular spacers, spaced apart in a direction parallel to this common axis direction.
  • the cleaning by means of textile cleaning agents protects the surface of the object to be cleaned.
  • the invention provides an environmentally friendly and inexpensive to operate device for cleaning located below the water surface of a body of water pointing to the water of this body surfaces.
  • it can be advantageously used at numerous locations or in numerous waters for cleaning, in particular of watercraft.
  • Fig. 1 shows selected parts of the device according to the invention for illustrating the structure of this device and a cleaning process by means of this device in a continuous process.
  • the device has a base frame 1. On this base frame 1 friction wheels 2, 3, 4 and 5 are mounted on vertically pivotable brackets. Further friction wheels 6, 7, 8 and 9 are located on horizontally pivotable brackets 10, 11, 12 and 13. Two further horizontally pivotable brackets 14 and 15 have two further not shown or concealed arranged friction wheels.
  • the horizontally pivotable brackets 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 15 are not attached directly to the base frame 1 of the device.
  • the horizontally pivotable brackets 10, 11, 12 and 13 are located on retracting aids 16 and 17.
  • the horizontally pivotable brackets 14 and 15 are located on extension aids 18 and 19.
  • the retracting aids 16 and 17 and the extension aids 18 and 19 are buoyant assemblies, which are connected to the device such that these assemblies regardless of the position of the device occupy a substantially fixed vertical position relative to a water surface of a body of water in which the device is located.
  • the retracting aids 16 and 17 and the extension aids 18 and 19 are designed as pontoons or have pontoons. Furthermore, they are web-like and walkable or have walk-on webs.
  • the device has various brushes in an embodiment as buoyant brush rollers with bristles.
  • Brushes 20, 21, 22 and 23 each have a substantially vertical axis of rotation.
  • the brushes 20 and 21 are floatingly mounted and designed as Bordwandbürstenticianen with irrigation pump.
  • the irrigation pump irrigates the upper area of these brushes 20 and 21 or a part protruding from the water of an object to be cleaned.
  • the brushes 22 and 23, however, are designed as keel brush units and arranged in a lower region of the device. They serve primarily for cleaning a keel of a watercraft.
  • These brushes 22 and 23 are pivotally mounted and have a water pump which can pump out contaminated water with particles.
  • the device has a plurality of brushes 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29 and 30 with substantially horizontal axes of rotation.
  • the brushes 24, 25, 26, 27, 28 and 29 are formed as fuselage brush units. They have a dirt collecting basin or suction basin and a water pump for pumping out contaminated water.
  • the brush 30 is designed as a retractable hull brush and arranged in a dirt collecting basin or suction basin with water pump for pumping out contaminated water.
  • the brushes 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26 27, 28 and 29 can be arranged in dirt collecting basin or suction basin.
  • the dirt collecting basin or suction basin have a strip by means of which particles can be stripped off the respective brush.
  • the pumps for pumping out contaminated water are connected via hoses with filter systems 31 and 32. By means of these filter systems 31 and 32 particles can be filtered from the pumped water.
  • hazardous substance tanks 33, 34 and 35 are shown in the figure. These hazardous substance tanks 33, 34 and 35 are used for temporary storage of extracted hazardous substances, feces and / or for collecting other waste such as. Paper, dirt or the like.
  • the figure also shows an object 37 to be cleaned or cleaned in the device and another object waiting 38.
  • this object 37, 38 is guided from right to left through the device.
  • a sense of direction namely a direction of movement is determined from right to left.
  • the device has a left side and a right side. Therefore, the base frame 1 of the device also has a left side of this base frame 1 shown at the lower edge of the picture and a right side of this base frame 1 shown at the upper edge of the picture relative to the sense of direction of the object 37 moving through the device or moving through the device. 38 on.
  • the cleaning path is located centrally between the left side and the right side of the device.
  • the cleaning path is also located centrally between the friction wheels 2 and 3 , 4 and 5, 6 and 7, and 8 and 9, respectively.
  • the cleaning path is located centrally between the brushes 20 and 21, 22 and 23, 24 and 25, 26 and 27 and 28 and 29.
  • the brush 30 is located substantially in the middle of the cleaning path or in equal parts right and left of Middle of the cleaning path.
  • the object to be cleaned 37, 38 moves from the position of the waiting object 38 from right to left into the device or is introduced into this device.
  • a first contact of the device with the object to be cleaned 37, 38 is made via the friction wheels 8 and 9.
  • These friction wheels 8 and 9 rotate in such a way that the object to be cleaned 37, 38 - even without their own drive - is drawn into the device during the cleaning process.
  • the object to be cleaned 37, 38 has no uniform width.
  • the brackets 12 and 13 therefore pivot the friction wheels 8 and 9 so horizontally that the object to be cleaned 37, 38 can move between these friction wheels on the cleaning path and at the same time make contact of the friction wheels 8 and 9 with the object 37, 38 to be cleaned is.
  • a more precise alignment of the object to be cleaned 37, 38 on the cleaning path is achieved by the second pair of friction wheels 6 and 7.
  • These friction wheels 6 and 7 are also provided with a drive and are pivoted horizontally analogously to the friction wheels 8 and 9 by means of the pivotable mountings 10 and 11, while the object 37, 38 to be cleaned moves between these friction wheels 6 and 7 or of these Friction wheels 6 and 7 is moved through.
  • the friction wheels 2, 3, 4 and 5 are located on vertically pivotable brackets in the region of the base frame 1 of the device. These friction wheels 2, 3, 4 and 5 are driven, rotate and carry the object to be cleaned 37, 38 centered on the cleaning path through the device. For a further centering when leaving the device to the left provide two other not shown or covered by the object 37, 38 friction wheels on the horizontally pivotable brackets 14 and 15.
  • the horizontally pivotable brackets 14 and 15 pivot with the friction wheels located thereon according to horizontally pivotable brackets 10 and 11 or 12 and 13th
  • the friction wheels 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 are electrically, mechanically or hydraulically driven connected or controlled such that they possibly underwater currents and winds, which the object to be cleaned 37, 38 from the cleaning path could counteract left or right, compensate.
  • the object to be cleaned 37, 38 is always held in such adverse circumstances always on the cleaning path between the left side of the device and the right side of the device or moved on this.
  • the to be cleaned Object 37, 38 can be stopped at any time, moved forward or backward.
  • the friction wheels 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 each rotate in a sense of direction, stop or rotate their sense of direction.
  • the cleaning of the object to be cleaned 37, 38 takes place in the region of the device itself, in particular in the region of the base frame 1.
  • the cleaning of the object to be cleaned 37, 38 will be described below by way of example with reference to the cleaning of a watercraft. It is therefore assumed that the object to be cleaned 37, 38 is a watercraft, in particular a boat with a fuselage, keel and drive screw.
  • the brushes 22 and 23 are mounted with substantially vertical axes of rotation. These brushes 22 and 23 clean a keel and rudder blade of the object 37, 38 and boat respectively.
  • the remaining substantially vertical surfaces of the object 37, 38 are cleaned by means of the brushes 20 and 21. These other vertical surfaces are the side walls of the boat. These side walls are located in the area of the water surface.
  • the brushes 20 and 21 are therefore pivotally mounted on vertical brackets and formed buoyant.
  • the brushes 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29 and 30 with substantially horizontal axes of rotation clean the substantially horizontal surfaces of the boat below the water surface. These substantially horizontal surfaces are substantially non-vertical surfaces of the boat located below the water surface. Due to the small width of the brushes 24, 25, 26, 27, 28 and 29 with substantially horizontal axes of rotation, these adapt advantageously to the usually curved hull.
  • the brushes 20, 21, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29 and 30 may also be configured as brushes 22 and 23 as flexible brush rollers, which better adapt to a surface curvature of an object to be cleaned.
  • the brush rollers can also create a buoyancy, i. be buoyant.
  • the brush 20 and 21 float in the area of the surface of the water.
  • the brushes 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29 and 30 with substantially horizontal axes of rotation press due to this buoyancy from below against the object to be cleaned 37, 38 and thereby adjust in their vertical position and in their curvature of the surface of this cleaning object 37, 38 at.
  • All brushes 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29 and 30 and the brush rollers are mounted in one or more suction tanks.
  • Absaugbecken accumulate from the zu cleaning object or the hull cleaned and possibly by means of a bar of the respective brush 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30 stripped particles. These particles are aspirated during cleaning together with water from the area of the suction basin. About hoses contaminated with the cleaned particles of water in the filter systems 31 and 32 is passed.
  • the filter systems have a plurality of filter mats, which are successively flowed through by the contaminated water, wherein the filter mats preferably have such a different permeability that first large particles and in a subsequent filter mat flowed through small particles are filtered out of the water.
  • the particles collect in or in front of the filter mats and are conducted or sucked from there into a collecting container or into one of the hazardous substance tanks 33, 34 and 35. Some particles may remain in the filter mats, which may be removed for cleaning or replacement. Purified water gets back into the water.
  • substantially fluid wastes may be drawn into the hazardous substance tanks 33, 34 and 35. This waste or hazardous substances are stored there and are disposed of at intervals at a suitable location, for example. At a disposal point located in a port.
  • Fig. 2 shows the base frame 1 of the device, the Einfahr kaun 16 and 17, the Ausfahr kaun 18 and 19 and the hazardous substance tanks 33, 34 and 35 and devices for receiving these hazardous substance tanks 33, 34 and 35.
  • the retracting aids 16 and 17 of the device are in the direction of each other Einfahr Anlagen 17, 16 pivoted.
  • the extension aids 18 and 19 are pivoted in the direction of the respective other Ausfahr Anlagen 19, 18.
  • a driveway or an exit is blocked in the cleaning path of the device.
  • the retracting aids 16 and 17 and the extension aids 18 and 19 are therefore preferably pivoted in a parking position P2 of the device in the manner described. Dimensions of the device are then only slightly larger than dimensions of the base frame 1 of the device.
  • the retracting aids 16 and 17 and the extension aids 18 and 19 are designed as webs and can be entered.
  • the base frame 1 has in the upper area two pontoons 41 and 42, which are also formed as webs.
  • the pontoons 41 and 42 are arranged together with the retracting aids 16 and 17 and the extension aids 18 and 19 in the region of the water surface of the water body.
  • the webs 16, 17, 18 and 19 can thus be entered from the pontoons 41 and 42 substantially without overcoming height differences.
  • the Pontoons 41 and 42 In the parking position P2 of the device are the Pontoons 41 and 42, however, in a vertical upward direction compared to the Einfahr kaun 16 and 17 and the Ausfahr bamboon 18 and 19 offset.
  • webs or buoyancy bodies 43 and 44 in the form of webs or webs are located in the area of the water surface. These are especially for waiting, cleaning or repair of the device accessible. In particular, entering the webs 43 and 44 of the Einfahr Anlagen 16 or 17 and the Ausfahr Anlagen 18 and 19 substantially without overcoming a height difference is possible.
  • Fig. 3 shows the base frame 1 of the device with the pontoons 41 and 42 and the webs 43 and 44 in a side view from the right side of the figure according to Fig. 2 , Furthermore, in the figure according to Fig. 3 two conductors 45 and 46 shown. These ladders 45 and 46 lead from the web 43 and 44 vertically upwards to the pontoon 41 and 42, respectively.
  • the pontoons 41 and 42 are at the level of the water surface.
  • the water surface is shown as waterline 47.
  • the base frame 1 of the device is located to a large extent below the water surface or water line 47.
  • the webs 43 and 44 are located below the water surface or water line 47th
  • the device In the parking position P2, the device is moved vertically upwards relative to the cleaning position P1.
  • the webs 43 and 44 are at the level of a water surface or water line 48 in the parking position P2 of the device.
  • the webs 43 and 44 are dry walkable.
  • access is made to the pontoons 41 and 42 formed as webs.
  • the webs 43 and 44 can here also be pontoons which are formed as the webs 43 and 44, or the webs 43 and 44 can, if necessary also be arranged above pontoons.
  • the pontoons or webs 43 and 44 provide buoyancy, which makes the device floatable in the parking position P2.
  • the draft of the device which is defined by the distance of the waterline 48 in the parking position P2 to an underside of the base frame 1, is very small in relation to the overall height of the base frame 1.
  • the device can therefore be moved to float even in very shallow water. For this reason, the device is very mobile.
  • Fig. 4 shows the device in a schematic representation in a view from above with various pre-installed modules.
  • the picture according to Fig. 4 is similar in many parts of the figure according to Fig. 1 , In particular, like reference numerals designate like components. Additionally shown are in the figure according to Fig. 4 in the description of the figures too Fig. 1 already mentioned on the horizontally pivotable brackets 14 and 15th Friction wheels 49 and 50 located in addition.
  • an electrical cabinet 51 is shown in the figure. This electrical cabinet 51 is mounted on the base frame 1 of the device such that it is located above the water surface 48 and 47 both in the parking position P2 and in the cleaning position P1 of the device.
  • a hydraulic system 52 By means of a hydraulic system 52 are the horizontally pivotable brackets 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 15 and the vertically pivotable brackets, not shown, in particular the vertically pivotable brackets of the friction wheels 2, 3, 4 and 5 and the brushes 20 and 21, hydraulically pivotable.
  • the hydraulic system 52 has a tubing to the horizontally pivotable brackets 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 15 and the not shown vertically pivotable brackets.
  • the brushes 22 and 23 are connected to this tubing and hydraulically extendable via the hydraulic system 52.
  • All electronic control cabinets, control panels, hydraulic units and a filter system can be integrated in the base frame 1, in particular in pontoons of the base frame 1, but also in the retracting aids 16 and 17 or the extension aids 18 and 19.
  • the device according to the invention consists of preinstalled modules which contain all the necessary supply lines.
  • the base frame 1 has a railing not shown here and together with this railing forms a first assembly.
  • Further assemblies are the retracting aids 16 and 17 and the extension aids 18 and 19.
  • the vertically pivotable friction wheels 2, 3, 4 and 5 form a fourth assembly.
  • the horizontally pivotable friction wheels 6, 7, 8, 9, 49 and 50 form a fifth assembly.
  • a sixth assembly are the brushes 22 and 23 with a substantially vertical axis of rotation, which are formed as keel brush units, together with a dirt collecting basin, not shown for collecting cleaned particles and a pump not shown for pumping out these particles or contaminated with these particles water.
  • the brushes 24, 25, 26, 27, 28 and 29 with substantially horizontal axes of rotation are formed as fuselage brush units, also have a jewelry catch basin and a pump and form with this dirt collecting basin and this pump a pre-installed assembly.
  • the brush 30 with a substantially horizontal axis of rotation which is designed as a fuselage brush, forms a separate module together with a dirt collecting basin and a pump. This assembly is namely retractable, for example. To be able to lead a keel of a boat to be cleaned by the device.
  • the brushes 20 and 21 with substantially vertical axes of rotation are formed as Bordwandbürsten and together with an irrigation pump, a ninth pre-installed assembly.
  • the irrigation pump pumps to clean the object to be cleaned 37, 38 Water in a contact region of the brushes 20 and 21 with the object to be cleaned 37, 38 above the water surface 47. This wet cleaning by means of the brushes 20 and 21 is possible.
  • the electrical cabinet 51 together with a control panel, which may be integrated into the electrical cabinet 51, a pre-installed module.
  • the control panel can have a touch screen for easy operation.
  • Another pre-installed assembly consists of the hydraulic system 52 together with a tubing.
  • the tubing is thus already connected at installation on a first side with the hydraulic system 52, so that each hydraulic line, not shown, must be connected only on a second side with a pre-installed assembly.
  • the filter systems 31 and 32 for filtering out particles contaminated with these particles already have a pre-installed module via a tubing. Also, this tubing is to be connected at the installation of the device only on a second side of a hose with another pre-installed module.
  • the first side of each hose is already connected to the filter system 31 and 32, respectively. Connectors to the pontoons also serve as piping to the filter system.
  • Another assembly is the hazardous substance tanks 33, 34 and 35 together with the already mentioned suction device for sucking substantially fluid waste into the hazardous substance tanks 33, 34 and 35.
  • the suction device or parts of the suction device is or are preferably in the hazardous substance tanks 33, 34 and 35 integrated.
  • Each hazardous substance tank 33, 34 and 35 is arranged on an operator side of the base frame 1 and has a volume of 1000 to 1500 liters, in particular about 1200 liters.
  • Flow meters measure the amount of liquid conducted into the hazardous substance tanks so that a level for each hazardous substance tank 33, 34 and 35 can be determined and, if necessary, displayed on the touch screen or by another display means.
  • Fig. 5 shows parts of the device according to the invention in a view from above, which largely according to the figure Fig. 2 like.
  • the retracting aids 16 and 17, the extension aids 18 and 19 and the hazardous substance tanks 33, 34 and 35 are all not vertically connected to the base frame 1 of the device.
  • these parts of the apparatus which are not fixedly connected to the base frame 1 are held by vertical guide rails and guided vertically along the guide rails when the base frame 1 of the apparatus is lowered.
  • the drive-in aid 16 is guided along a guide rail 61 and / or 62 and the drive-in aid 17 along a guide rail 63 and / or 64.
  • the waste containers or hazardous substance tanks 33, 34 and 35 are buoyant and are each supported by a likewise buoyant frame member.
  • the hazardous substance tanks 33, 34 and 35 or the frame elements carrying these hazardous substance tanks 33, 34 and 35 are guided along the base frame 1 of the device.
  • a guide rail 68 and / or 69 connects the Ausfahr Vietnamese 19 with the base frame 1 and the guide rail 70 and / or 71 connects the Ausfahr Vietnamese 18 with the base frame 1 of the device.
  • further buoyant assemblies are mounted vertically displaceable relative to the base frame 1 of the device. Possibly. can be guided along these guide rails 72, 73 and 74 more waste containers or alternatively also the aforementioned waste containers or hazardous substance tanks 33, 34 and 35.
  • Fig. 6 shows a side view of the device, which largely according to the figure Fig. 3 equivalent. Additionally marked are in the picture according to Fig. 6 however, the guide rails 74 and 65. The guide rails 73 and 72 are hidden by the guide rail 74. The guide rails 66 and 67 are covered by the guide rail 65. The further guide rails 61, 62, 63, 64, 68, 69, 70 and 71 are not shown in this figure for reasons of clarity.
  • Fig. 7 shows parts of the device for illustrating the centering of an object to be cleaned 37, 38 by means of the friction wheels 2, 3, 4 and 5.
  • These friction wheels 2, 3, 4 and 5 centrally center the object to be cleaned 37, 38 in the region of the base frame 1 between the left side of the device and the right side of the device.
  • the friction wheels 2 and 4 are arranged symmetrically with respect to the friction wheels 3 and 5 with respect to a vertical mirror plane S located between the left side and the right side of the base frame 1.
  • the friction wheels 2, 3, 4 and 5 are to those already in the description of the figures Fig. 1 said vertically pivotable brackets 75, 76, 77 and 78 attached.
  • These vertically pivotable supports 75, 76, 77 and 78 are designed such that they press the friction wheels 2, 3, 4 and 5 in the direction of the cleaning path or in the direction of the surface of an object to be cleaned 37, 38.
  • the object to be cleaned 37, 38 has symmetrically constructed sides, when a left side with respect.
  • a vertical mirror plane is mirror images of a right side, said mirror plane coincides during the cleaning process substantially with the mirror plane S of the device.
  • this object 37, 38 of the friction wheels 2, 3, 4 and 5 is centered on the cleaning path centered.
  • the friction wheel 2 pivots this far as far in the direction of the cleaning path or in the direction of the mirror plane S as the friction wheel 3. Only the sense of direction is opposite.
  • the friction wheel 4 pivots as far in the direction of the cleaning path as the friction wheel fifth
  • the holders 75, 76, 77 and 78 are connected or coupled to one another electrically, mechanically or hydraulically in such a way that the object 37, 38 to be cleaned is held centrally on the cleaning path even in the case of lateral winds and / or underwater currents. Laterally acting forces due to underwater currents and winds, which could press the object to be cleaned 37, 38 to one side of the device, are thus substantially compensated by means of the vertically pivotable holders 75, 76, 77 and 78.
  • the vertically pivotable mountings 75, 76, 77 and 78 therefore possibly also press the friction wheels with different forces against the surface of the object 37, 38 to be cleaned, if this is necessary for centering this object 37, 38.
  • Rotational speeds of the motor-driven friction wheels 2, 3, 4 and 5 are coordinated. By suitable rotational speeds of the friction wheels 2, 3, 4 and 5, the centering of the object to be cleaned 37, 38 is supported on the cleaning path or pivoting of the object to be cleaned relative to the cleaning path substantially avoided.
  • brackets 75, 76, 77 and 78 can be hydraulically moved to a position where they are easily accessible for maintenance.
  • Fig. 8 schematically shows parts of the device according to the invention for illustrating the operation of centering on the Einfahr Anlagenn 16 and 17 and the extension aids 18 and 19 of the device.
  • the hydraulic and motor control of the pivotable brackets 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 15 and the friction wheels 6, 7, 8, 9, 49 and 50 is largely as the hydraulic or pneumatic control for moving the vertically pivotable brackets 75th , 76, 77 and 78 and the friction wheels 2, 3, 4 and 5 as described Fig. 7 ,
  • the friction wheels 6, 7, 8, 9, 49 and 50 are pivoted horizontally by means of the horizontally pivotable mountings 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 15. The pivoting takes place in each case about a substantially vertical axis of rotation.
  • the pivoting takes place in the direction of the flow through the device.
  • This is advantageous since the rotation of the friction wheels 6, 7, 8, 9, 49, 50 in this case, a pressing of these friction wheels 6, 7, 8, 9, 49, 50 to the surface of the object to be cleaned 37, 38th supports and does not counteract this pressing.
  • the direction of rotation of one of the friction wheels 6, 7, 8, 9, 49, 50 is equal to the direction of rotation of the pivoting of the friction wheel 6, 7, 8, 9, 49, 50 from a rest position when the object to be cleaned 37, 38 of this friction wheel 6, 7, 8, 9, 49, 50 pivoted from the cleaning path in the direction of one side of the device. For example.
  • Fig. 9 shows a side view of parts of the device according to the invention. Shown are, in particular, the brushes 20 and 21 with substantially vertical axes of rotation. These brushes 20 and 21 are parts of a Bordwandbürstenech. By integrated floats or floatable trained brush rollers they are arranged floating on the water surface. They are held by two pivotable brackets 81 and 82. These brackets 81 and 82 position the brushes 20 and 21 in the horizontal so that they do not pivot in the direction of the cleaning path. At the same time, however, each of the brushes 20 and 21 presses in the direction of the other brush 20 or 21.
  • the brushes 20 and 21 therefore press laterally against the surface of the object to be cleaned 37, 38th If the object to be cleaned 37, 38 is a boat, then press the brushes 21 and 22 port or starboard against the side wall of this boat. In this way, the brushes 20 and 21 reach a contact suitable for cleaning the surface of the object 37, 38 with respect to this surface or to the particles to be cleaned off on this surface.
  • Fig. 10 shows the brushes 22 and 23 with substantially vertical axes of rotation, which are designed as keel brushes for cleaning a keel of a vessel, as well as their connections to the base frame. 1
  • the device has two vertical downwardly facing guide rails 83 and 84. At each of these two guide rails 83 and 84, a respective lift truck 85 and 86 can be guided along the vertical. Indirectly raises or lowers this truck 85 and 86, the brush 22 and 23. Below the trucks 85 and 86 buoyancy bodies 87 and 88 are attached. These buoyancy bodies 87 and 88 generate below the water surface a buoyancy, which presses the lift truck 85 and 86 upwards. In the cleaning position P1 of the device, the brushes 22 and 23 are then on the same Height with a keel of a vessel when this vessel is the object 37, 38 to be cleaned.
  • the trucks 83 and 84 each have a longitudinal carriage 89 and 90, respectively.
  • This longitudinal carriage 89 and 90 is horizontally relative to the lift truck 85 and 86, in particular hydraulically displaceable.
  • the displacement points in the direction of the respective other longitudinal carriage 89 or 90 or perpendicular in the direction of the cleaning path.
  • the brush 22 or 23 is attached to the longitudinal carriage 89 and 90, respectively.
  • the brushes 22 and 23 are by means of the trucks 83 and 84 and the longitudinal carriage 89 and 90 thus both in the vertical and in the horizontal optimally aligned to be cleaned object 37, 38 or automatically oriented optimally to be cleaned object 37, 38th out.
  • the device For stripping or collecting cleaned particles, the device has dirt collecting basins 91 and 92 on the brushes 22 and 23. In this dirt collecting basin 91 and 92 cleaned particles are brushed off and collected on the brushes 91 and 92. Together with water from the vicinity of the brushes 91 and 92, these particles are sucked into hoses 93 and 94 by means of pumps 95 and 96 to the filters.
  • the further brushes 20, 21, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29 and 30 have dirt collecting basins.
  • These further dirt collecting basins and the dirt collecting basins 91 and 92 each have a shape which allows, in connection with the rotation of the respective brush 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29 and 30 and ambient water is drawn into the respective dirt collecting basin 91, 92 and can be sucked from there.
  • Fig. 11 shows a schematic representation of parts of the device according to the first embodiment of the invention with brushes and baffles and is similar in essential parts Fig. 8 , In particular, however, brush holders or guide plates 101 and 102 for guiding the brushes 22 and 23 are additionally shown. In addition, the device has brush holders 103 and 104 for guiding the brushes 20 and 21. Further brush holders or guide plates 105, 106, 107, 108, 109, 110, 111 and 112 guide the brushes 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29 and 30 with a horizontal axis of rotation.
  • the brush holders 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 107, 108, 109, 110, 111 and 112 have bristles, with which they contact, for example, with a protruding propeller on the object 37, 38 and push the brush guided by the respective baffle 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 107, 108, 109, 110, 111 and 112 away from this propeller to protect the propeller.
  • Fig. 12 is essentially similar Fig. 6 , In addition, however, next to the waterline 48 in the parking position P2, the hazardous substance tanks 33, 34 and 35 are shown. These hazardous substance tanks 33, 34 and 35 are not or only slightly filled, so that they are to a large extent above the waterline 48 are located. A large part of the device, in particular of the base frame 1, is located above the waterline 48 and is at least partially supported by the pontoons 43 and 44.
  • Fig. 13 shows the arrangement according to Fig. 12 in the cleaning position P1. Instead of the waterline 48 is now the waterline 47 in an upper region of the arrangement, which is supported by the pontoons 41 and 42 substantially.
  • the hazardous substance tanks 33, 34 and 35 are mounted floating, horizontally fixed relative to the base frame 1, but vertically along the guide rail 65 and a concealed behind this guide rail 65 arranged guide rail slidably.
  • Fig. 14 shows a schematic representation of the device according to a second embodiment of the invention in the cleaning position P1.
  • the device is substantially similar to the device according to the first embodiment. However, shows Fig. 14 a more detailed presentation.
  • friction wheels 6 and 7 friction wheels 6 'and 7' are provided, which are now not arranged analogously to the friction wheels 8 and 9 in the horizontal about a vertical axis pivotable. Instead, the friction wheels 6 'and 7' analogous to the friction wheels 2, 3, 4 and 5 are connected via pivotable brackets to the base frame 1.
  • the device has a plurality of electrical control boxes or terminal boxes, in which electrical devices, possibly hydraulic actuators or pumps or motors are arranged.
  • the device has terminal boxes 121 and 122 for the pneumatic control of the holders 12 and 13 and for controlling the optionally motor-operated friction wheels 8 and 9.
  • Corresponding terminal boxes 123 and 124 are provided in the Ausfahr Anlagenn 18 and 19, wherein the pivoting of the brackets 14 and 15 and a rotation of the friction wheels 49 and 50 is controllable by means of the electrical in these terminal boxes 123 and 124.
  • central terminal boxes 125 and 126 receive a central electrical system or electronics for a non-operator side or for an operator side of the device.
  • the terminal box 126 also includes a necessary for filling the hazardous substance tanks or for sucking contaminated water or hazardous substances electrics.
  • terminal boxes 127, 128, 129 and 130 include an electrical or electronics, in order to flood or distract the base frame 1 and the floatable buoyancy body located in this base frame 1.
  • the pump can also be arranged in the respective terminal box 17, 128, 129 and 130.
  • Fig. 15 shows the device according to the second embodiment of Fig. 14 in the parking position P2.
  • the retracting aids 16 and 17 and the extension aids 18 and 19 are always arranged in the region of the waterline 48 due to their design as pontoons which generate a lift and are therefore in the parking position P2 at substantially the same height with the webs 43 and 44th
  • the retracting aids 16 and 17 and the extension aids 18 and 19 are pivoted about vertical axes such that they form two walkable webs which extend from the web 43 to the web 44.
  • the horizontally pivotable holders 12, 13, 14 and 15 for the friction wheels 8, 9, 49 and 50 are pivoted into the retracting aid 16 or 17 or the extension aid 18 or 19 or arranged below it.
  • the friction wheels 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 'and 7' are easily accessible from the pontoons or webs 41 and 42. All other parts of the device, in particular the brushes 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29 and 30 are easily accessible from the webs 43 and 44 and the Einfahr kaun 16 and 17 and the Ausfahr kaun 18 and 19 from.
  • the draft of the device is a maximum of 0.3 m, so that the device in the parking position P2 can be moved even in very shallow waters.
  • the maximum length is 8.1 m, while the device has a maximum width of 8.7 m.
  • the device protrudes a maximum of 4.5 m out of the water.
  • the length of the device is increased to a maximum of 12 m.
  • the draft is in the cleaning position P1 a maximum of 3.4 m, which is sufficient for a variety of potentially cleanable boats.
  • the height above the water is a maximum of 0.5 m. Possibly. However, a railing or an operating device can also protrude further out of the water or arranged.
  • Fig. 16 shows a schematic representation of a part of the device according to a third embodiment of the invention.
  • the third embodiment of the invention shows a particularly advantageous support for the brushes 20 and 21 or side wall brushes of the device.
  • This arrangement is advantageously suitable for cleaning a mirror or a rear side of a boat.
  • the brushes 20 and 21 wiper-like between the mirror plane S and the pontoon 41 and 42 reciprocated.
  • the brush 21 is connected via a brush holder 141, an upper support rod 142 and a lower support rod 143 with the base frame 1.
  • a first hinge 144 connecting the base frame 1 to the lower support rod 143, a second hinge 145 connecting the lower support rod 143 to the upper support rod 142, and a third hinge 146 connecting the upper support rod 142 to the brush bracket 141 provide the necessary flexibility.
  • hydraulic devices are provided which allow a specific control of the position of the brush 21.
  • the brush 20 is held according to the brush 21, but mirror images according to a reflection on the mirror plane S and can be moved accordingly.
  • the brush 20 is held by a brush holder 147, which is connected via an upper support rod 148 and a lower support rod 149 with the base frame 1. Between the base frame 1, the lower bracket 149, the upper bracket 148 and the brush holder 147 turn provide a first joint 150, a second joint 151 and a third joint 153 for the necessary mobility.
  • a movement of the brush holders 141 and 147 can in this case take place such that an axis of rotation of the brushes 20 and 21 is always arranged vertically. Either the vertical arrangement is specifically controlled pneumatically. Otherwise, however, the brushes 20 and 21 may also be configured to automatically orient themselves to the water surface 42 due to buoyant forces such that they rotate substantially about a vertical axis.
  • the positions of the brushes 20 and 21 can be controlled here, for example, by means of a joystick, via a touchscreen and / or automatically.
  • the rear side or the mirror of the object to be cleaned 37, 38 can be cleaned in a targeted manner.
  • a targeted forward movement or backward movement of the object to be cleaned 37, 38 by means of the friction wheels 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 supports this cleaning process.
  • the object to be cleaned 37, 38 by means of the friction wheels 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 6 ', 7, 7', 8, 9 moved forward to the brush 21 on a protruding screw or a protruding outboard motor in the direction of Mirror plane S to be able to pass.
  • Fig. 17 shows the device according to a fourth embodiment of the invention.
  • the device is similar in many parts of the device according to Fig. 14 , In particular, like reference numerals designate like components.
  • suction devices 160 are arranged for the extraction of near-surface water.
  • Each suction device 160 has a base body 161, an inlet cylinder 162 and a lid 163.
  • a suction slot 164 is arranged. Through this suction slot near-surface contaminated water is sucked into the inlet cylinder 162.
  • a paddle wheel 165 is arranged. The impeller 165 rotates the sucked water in such a way that a cone-like vortex is formed.
  • a drive 167 is further provided which drives the paddle wheel 165, for example by means of an electric motor.
  • the suction device may be firmly connected to the retracting aid 16 or 17 or the Ausfahr Anlagen 18 or 19 or be stored such that it always assumes a height to the water surface 47, in which the suction slot 164 is in the region of the water surface 47.
  • the suction device has in an upper region or in the region of the cover 163 or in the region of the suction slot 164 a tube collar 168, which provides a buoyancy of the suction device 160, so that the suction device 160 is buoyant overall and is floating in such a way that Water from the water surface 47 through the suction slot 164 through the inlet cylinder 162 can reach to below the water surface 47 located pipe joint 166.
  • the antifouling has toxic substances which are removed during cleaning by means of the device and drive to the water surface 47. In the area of the water surface 47, the toxic substances are extracted by the suction devices 160. After a first cleaning by means of the device residues of a coating with an antifouling are usually removed completely, so that the object 37, 38 can be cleaned environmentally friendly in the following cleaning operations without further toxic substances are cleaned from the surface of the object and in the Hazardous substance tanks 33, 34, 35 must be extracted.
  • the paddle wheel 165 causes an energy-saving suction of the water.
  • a sucked or retracted amount of water is determined by a vortex size, which in turn can be influenced by a rotational speed of the impeller 165.
  • the retracted amount of water can thus be adapted to a vessel size or a water flow, so that only as much water is sucked in, as is necessary to suck the water, which is contaminated with cleaned particles, and to clean.
  • the inlet cylinder 162 may be designed as a fixed or flexible tube. A design as a flexible tube in this case allows a particularly advantageous arrangement of the suction slot 164 in the region of the water surface 47.
  • the extracted water passes into a settling tank with filter, wherein one of the hazardous substance tanks 33 or 35 may be formed as such sedimentation tank.
  • the extracted water passes through a pipe or hose connection to a filter system on land.
  • Purified particles, especially antifouling, are separated by a single or multi-stage filter, e.g. may be a sand filter, filtered out of the extracted water, which is cleaned again discharged to the environment of the device.
  • the device has an apron, which extends in particular in its entire circumference, up to a water depth of about 1.5 m.
  • This apron limits the near-surface water exchange of water in the area of the device with the environment. The contaminated water in the area of the device can therefore be sucked off and cleaned before it dries off on the surface. As a result, the amount of water is limited, which is contaminated especially in waters with flow during the cleaning of the object 37, 38 and therefore must be sucked off and filtered.
  • the apron is arranged in the region or below the pontoons 41 and 42 and in the region or below the retracting aids 16 and 17 and the extension aids 18 and 19. The skirt is therefore fully closed when the retracting aids 16 and 17 are pivoted according to arrows 170 and 171 and the extension aids 18 and 19 according to arrows 172 and 173.
  • the device according to Fig. 17 has a control panel 174 with a touch screen 175.
  • An operator can thus monitor and control a cleaning process standing on the pontoon 42. Possibly.
  • the operator can influence the cleaning process by simply touching illustrated switching elements. For example. can the object to be cleaned 37, 38 are moved back, if individual areas of the surface of this object 37, 38 require a particularly intensive or repeated cleaning.
  • Both electronics of the control panel 174 and all other electrical equipment of the device can be supplied with power, which is provided by a generator.
  • Fig. 18 shows an alternative to the brush 20 and 21 training the side wall brush as a brush 181 with textile cleaning agents 182 instead of bristles. Possibly. also the brushes 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29 and 30 may be equipped with textile cleaning agents.
  • the textile cleaning agents 182 allow a gentle cleaning of the surface of the object to be cleaned 37 or 38, in particular of parts of the surface, which are arranged above the waterline 47.
  • hard plastic brushes could damage its surface, in particular if the object is cleaned several times, or in particular blunt a lacquer coating or introduce fine scratches into the surface.
  • hard plastic bristles that are not completely surrounded by water could damage the surface of the object 37 or 38 to be cleaned or at least degrade a surface quality.
  • the textile cleaning agents 182 enable a more gentle cleaning of the surface of the object 37 or 38.
  • the textile cleaning agents have a softer and more flexible surface than plastic bristles.
  • the brush 181 has a plurality of these textile cleaning means 182, which are formed substantially circular disc-like and spaced apart by means of spacers 183 spaced from each other. Each spacer ring 183 connects two textile cleaning means 182 such that a torque is transmitted between the textile cleaning means 182 by means of the spacer ring 183.
  • a brush holder 184 holds the brush 181 such that it is rotatable together with the textile cleaning means 182 about an axis 185.
  • the brush holder 184 is in this case at least partially tubular like a water pipe.
  • An ambient water pump 186 pumps namely ambient water through the water pipe-like design of the brush holder 184 to a water outlet opening 187, so that the textile detergent 182 are wetted with water.
  • a wet cleaning of the surface of the object 37 or 38 is also possible above the waterline 47.
  • Fig. 19 shows the textile cleaning agent 182 of the brush 181 according to Fig. 18 in detail.
  • the textile cleaning agent 182 has two stacked disk-shaped felt disks arranged one above the other. These felt disks are connected to each other by means of an adhesive or otherwise, wherein stabilizing means 191 are arranged in the radial direction between the felt disks. These stabilizing means 191 may, for example, be springs or spring-like.
  • the stabilizing means 191 provide stability to the textile cleaning agent 182 and counteract the collapse of the textile cleaning agent 182 in the direction of the axis 181.
  • Water passage openings 192 facilitate water distribution in a direction parallel to axis 181 and thus between textile cleaning means 182. At the same time, water passage openings 192 minimize mass of textile cleaning agent 182.
  • textile cleaning agent 182 has cleaning edges 193. These cleaning edges are formed by notches, which are arranged at the edge and extend substantially in the radial direction. As a result, the surface of the textile cleaning agent is enlarged at its edge. By means of the cleaning edges 193, the textile cleaning agent 182 can effectively attack dirt on the surface of the object 37 or 38 and clean it off when the textile cleaning agent 182 is symbolized by an arrow 194.
  • Fig. 20 shows the device according to a fifth embodiment of the invention.
  • the device is similar in many parts of the device according to Fig. 15 or according to Fig. 17 , In particular, like reference numerals designate like components.
  • the base frame 1 has on its underside a service platform, which is designed as a grating 201.
  • the grating 201 may have a plurality of individual grids.
  • another fixed structure may be provided which is suitable for carrying a filter flow or a tarpaulin.
  • the grating 201 is preferably covered or designed with a filter flow, not shown, or another cover, so that cleaned particles can be collected by this filter flow or the cover and can be easily removed from the filter flow in the parking position P2.
  • a second roller in particular on an opposite side of the base frame 1, is provided, on which the contaminated filter flow can be wound up.
  • the device according to Fig. 20 also has side skirts 202 and 204 on its base frame 1.
  • the side skirts 202 and 204 may each comprise a foil, a sheet and / or another rigid or flexible material.
  • the skirts 202 and 204 seal the device 1 to the sides, so that dirt particles when cleaned in the cleaning position P1 from the object to be cleaned 37 sink to the ground, held by the skirts 202 and 204 in the region of the base frame 1 and directed to the grate 201.
  • the skirt 206 is advantageously attached to the pivot arm which holds the friction wheel 2.
  • the friction wheel 2 is pressed during a cleaning operation against the object to be cleaned 37, so that the skirt 206 is brought close to the object to be cleaned 37.
  • the apron 206 may be flexible, in particular foldable and additionally attached to the base frame 1.
  • the skirt 206 may also be rigid and rest on the base frame 1 without being firmly connected to the base frame 1.
  • the skirts 208 and 210 which are attached to the pivot arm of the friction wheel 3 and 6 ', as well as for in Fig. 20 invisible apron, which is attached to the also not visible arm of the friction wheel 7 '.
  • the interior of the device according to the fifth embodiment of Fig. 20 largely separated from the environment or an ambient water, so that a Abscutted cleaned particles in the ambient water is advantageously counteracted and the cleaned particles, in particular shells, advantageously from the service platform or the grating 201 or the filter grid laid out on the grate 201 can be collected or filtered out of the water.
  • the device may have its own drive.
  • the device may comprise at least one gasoline engine, diesel engine or electric motor which can be supplied with electrical energy from a generator.
  • the motor drives a propeller, a screw or a nozzle as a drive.
  • the device may comprise a plurality of drives which allow easy maneuvering of the device. Possibly. pivotable drives can be provided which simplify maneuvering again.
  • the device may have at least one comminuting device which comminutes, in particular chops, solid particles and other solids, for example mussels and / or smallpox.
  • the shredding device may be arranged between the suction devices 160 and the filter system 31 or 32. The particles and solids in the extracted water are shredded by the crusher so far that they do not clog the filter system 31 or 32, to which the extracted water is subsequently supplied.
  • the device has seawater resistant materials.
  • all located in the cleaning position below the water surface 47 parts of the device have materials that can come into contact with seawater or salt water, wherein aging processes of the materials remain largely unaccelerated, so that the device in case of use in seawater high Life has.

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