EP2271549B1 - Aufblasbares rettungsfloss mit sitzen - Google Patents

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EP2271549B1
EP2271549B1 EP09732460.2A EP09732460A EP2271549B1 EP 2271549 B1 EP2271549 B1 EP 2271549B1 EP 09732460 A EP09732460 A EP 09732460A EP 2271549 B1 EP2271549 B1 EP 2271549B1
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Ole Andersen
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B63—SHIPS OR OTHER WATERBORNE VESSELS; RELATED EQUIPMENT
    • B63C—LAUNCHING, HAULING-OUT, OR DRY-DOCKING OF VESSELS; LIFE-SAVING IN WATER; EQUIPMENT FOR DWELLING OR WORKING UNDER WATER; MEANS FOR SALVAGING OR SEARCHING FOR UNDERWATER OBJECTS
    • B63C9/00—Life-saving in water
    • B63C9/02—Lifeboats, life-rafts or the like, specially adapted for life-saving
    • B63C9/04—Life-rafts
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B63—SHIPS OR OTHER WATERBORNE VESSELS; RELATED EQUIPMENT
    • B63B—SHIPS OR OTHER WATERBORNE VESSELS; EQUIPMENT FOR SHIPPING 
    • B63B7/00—Collapsible, foldable, inflatable or like vessels
    • B63B7/06—Collapsible, foldable, inflatable or like vessels having parts of non-rigid material
    • B63B7/08—Inflatable
    • B63B7/085—Accessories or mountings specially adapted therefor, e.g. seats, sailing kits, motor mountings
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B63—SHIPS OR OTHER WATERBORNE VESSELS; RELATED EQUIPMENT
    • B63B—SHIPS OR OTHER WATERBORNE VESSELS; EQUIPMENT FOR SHIPPING 
    • B63B29/00—Accommodation for crew or passengers not otherwise provided for
    • B63B29/02—Cabins or other living spaces; Construction or arrangement thereof
    • B63B29/04—Furniture peculiar to vessels
    • B63B2029/043—Seats; Arrangements thereof on vessels
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B63—SHIPS OR OTHER WATERBORNE VESSELS; RELATED EQUIPMENT
    • B63B—SHIPS OR OTHER WATERBORNE VESSELS; EQUIPMENT FOR SHIPPING 
    • B63B29/00—Accommodation for crew or passengers not otherwise provided for
    • B63B29/02—Cabins or other living spaces; Construction or arrangement thereof
    • B63B29/04—Furniture peculiar to vessels
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B63—SHIPS OR OTHER WATERBORNE VESSELS; RELATED EQUIPMENT
    • B63C—LAUNCHING, HAULING-OUT, OR DRY-DOCKING OF VESSELS; LIFE-SAVING IN WATER; EQUIPMENT FOR DWELLING OR WORKING UNDER WATER; MEANS FOR SALVAGING OR SEARCHING FOR UNDERWATER OBJECTS
    • B63C9/00—Life-saving in water
    • B63C9/02—Lifeboats, life-rafts or the like, specially adapted for life-saving
    • B63C9/04—Life-rafts
    • B63C2009/042—Life-rafts inflatable

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  • ring-shaped area is in this context to be construed as the inflatable tube defining the outer periphery of the liferafts, i.e. the hull sides.
  • the ring-shaped area is the area wherein the evacuated people are located while they are present in the liferaft.
  • the configuration of the ring-shaped area may be round, elliptic, rectangular, pentagonal, hexagonal, octagonal, or others.
  • the liferafts are normally stored on board the vessel in containers in a deflated state. In this storage situation, the containers do not take up much room or space on the deck. Furthermore, rack systems may be provided on the deck of the vessel In order to accommodate one or more containers. During the evacuation situation, the container is either thrown overboard into the water, whereinafter it is inflated, or it is inflated onboard and subsequently lowered onto the water. Then, the evacuation of persons can take place.
  • the inflatable liferafts are suitable for evacuation of up to 150 persons per liferaft. If large passenger or cruise ships, where a high number of passengers are present, are to be equipped with liferafts, a considerable number of liferafts have to be Installed.
  • the containers take up a lot of deck space, which clearly is a disadvantage for passenger or cruise ships, where the ship-owners will appreciate space on the decks for the passengers.
  • the liferafts shall have a seating area of 0.37 m 2 for each person; thugs, a liferaft for 150 persons shall at least have an area of 55.5 m 2 for fulfilling the SOLAS Rules.
  • An object of the present invention is to wholly or partly overcome the above disadvantages and drawbacks of the prior art. More specifically, it is an object to provide an inflatable liferaft with a high capacity.
  • the seating arrangements may extend In a direction away from the inflatable tube across the ring-shaped area, so that the ring-shaped area is utilised to an optimum.
  • the seating arrangements have a predetermined pressure in inflated state. Said predetermined pressure is lower than the pressure of the floatable tube.
  • the predetermined pressure may be of such a size that when the persons being evacuated sit on the seating arrangements they will sink down into the seating arrangements whereby a fixation of the persons is obtained. The persons will thereby be less exposed to the movements of the liferaft.
  • the seating arrangements may comprise at least three longitudinal parts, said longitudinal parts extending substantially in a same plane.
  • the seating arrangements are divided into sections which motivate persons without any instructions to be seated.
  • the seating arrangements are thereby adapted so that the persons being evacuated may sit on each side of the seating arrangements and thereby use each other as back rests.
  • the longitudinal parts may be separate parts mutually connected or one unit comprising longitudinal parts.
  • longitudinal grooves may be arranged between the longitudinal parts. Said longitudinal grooves indicate how the persons being evacuated may sit on the seating arrangement. Also the longitudinal grooves may be used as drainage channels which may lead fluid away from the seating arrangements, if any fluid is present on the seating arrangement.
  • the seating arrangements and the bottom element and/or the inflatable tube may comprise corresponding connection means.
  • connection means may be zips, groove/flange connection, frapping, he/she connections or the like.
  • the seating arrangements may stiffen the liferaft in a transverse direction.
  • At least one of the seating arrangements may be hingedly connected to the bottom element.
  • the at least one seating arrangement may be moved from a first position, in which the seating arrangement is adapted for seating the evacuated persons to a second position, in which the seating arrangement is raised or displaced from the bottom element and thus the first position, and thereby providing a space in the ring-shaped area.
  • the space may for Instance be used as a receiving area for a slide or chute In an evacuation situation, whereafter the slide or chute is dismounted from the liferaft, and the at least one seating arrangement may then be placed in the first position so that the seating arrangement may again be used as seats for the persons in the liferaft.
  • the space may also be used as storage room or for injured persons who need to lie down.
  • the liferaft 1 comprises at least one inflatable flotation tube 2, said inflatable tube 2 extending circumferentially for providing a substantially ring-shaped area 3, and a bottom element 4 which is adapted to provide a bottom to the substantially ring-shaped area 3.
  • the inflatable liferaft may comprise one additional or more inflatable flotation tubes arranged above the inflatable tube 2.
  • the seating arrangements 5 may either be detachably or securely connected to the bottom element 4 and/or the inflatable tube 2.
  • the seating arrangements 5 and the bottom element 4 and/or the inflatable tube 2 may comprise corresponding connection means (not shown).
  • the connection means are zips, groove/flange connection, frapping, he/she connections or the like.
  • the connection means may be securely attached after the connections and they may be sealed after the connection.
  • the seating arrangements 5 may be Inflatable. Also, the seating arrangements 5 may have a predetermined pressure In the Inflated state.
  • the predetermined pressure may be of such a size that when the persons being evacuated sit on the seating arrangements 5 they will sink down into the seating arrangements 5 whereby a fixation of the persons is obtained. The persons will thereby be less exposed to the movements of the liferaft 1.
  • the inflation of the seating arrangements 5 may be performed by the pressure source, which is adapted to Inflate the entire liferaft 1 or it may have its own pressure source.
  • the seating arrangements 5 may comprise at least three longitudinal parts.
  • the longitudinal parts may be separate parts mutually connected, which is shown in the embodiments of Figs. 3-5 , or one unit comprising longitudinal parts, which is shown in Figs. 6-7 .
  • the three longitudinal parts 7, 7', 7" substantially have the same size, i.e. the same diameter.
  • the longitudinal parts 7, 7', 7" are all connected to each other and are separate parallel inflatable tubes. Furthermore, longitudinal grooves 8 are arranged between the longitudinal parts 7, 7', 7".
  • the middle longitudinal part 7' has a larger size than the two outer longitudinal parts 7, 7".
  • the middle longitudinal part 7' has a smaller size than the two outer longitudinal parts 7, 7".
  • the seating arrangements of the present invention primarily have been shown with three longitudinal parts, it is within the inventive idea that the seating arrangements also may comprise five or seven longitudinal parts or even more longitudinal parts.
  • the height of the seating arrangements may preferably be between 0.10 m to 0.30 m.
  • At least one of the longitudinal grooves may be a lowest point of a seat, which guides the persons to be seated as intended. Furthermore, it may as well be used for the drainage of potential water away from the seating arrangements.
  • FIG. 9 an additional embodiment of the seating arrangements 5 are shown in a cross sectional view.
  • the seating arrangements are part of the bottom of the liferaft, and the entire bottom is inflatable.
  • Fig. 11 several persons placed on the seating arrangements 5 are shown in a top view.
  • the seating arrangements 5 are arranged with a distance D so that the persons sitting on opposite seating arrangements facing each other may lock their legs, whereby the persons will support each other.
  • the persons When persons also sit on the other side of the seating arrangement, the persons will support each other both in the lateral direction as well as in the longitudinal direction, i.e. the persons are supported in all directions, whereby the influences from a stormy sea will be considerably smaller on the individual person.
  • a thermal isolation between the persons sitting closely is obtained, whereby an increased security against hypothermia is obtained.
  • a part of the seating arrangements 5 is shown in a side view. Two of the seating arrangements are raised in an upright second position to provide a space 15 in the ring-shaped area. The seating arrangements may be moved back into a first position, wherein the seating arrangements are adapted for seating persons, which is indicated by the arrows.
  • the seating arrangements 5 comprise hinge connections (not shown) or the like between the bottom element 4 and the seating arrangements 5 so that they may be moved between the first position and the second position with the hinge connections as the centre of rotation.
  • the seating arrangements comprise hinge connections placed on one side of the seating arrangements.
  • the seating arrangements may comprise hinge connections in each side, and these hinge connection may be detachable to make it optional in which direction the seating arrangements are moved.
  • the seating arrangements 5 of Fig. 12 are shown in a top view.
  • the seating arrangements 5 are raised in the upright position so that the space 15 is created.between them.
  • the space 15 may for instance be used as a receiving area for a slide or chute in an evacuation situation, whereafter the slide or chute is dismounted from the liferaft 1, and the seating arrangements may then be placed in the first position so that the seating arrangements may again be used as seats for the persons in the iiferaft 1.
  • the space 15 may also be used as storage room or for injured persons who need to lie down.
  • All seating arrangements may be hingedly connected to the bottom element or only to predetermined seating arrangements. For instance, the ones in the vicinity of the entrance into liferaft may be hingedly connected.
  • the seating arrangements 5 when they are in an upright position, they provide a barrier around the space 15, which may for instance be advantageous when the space 15 is used as a landing area from a slide or a chute.
  • the seating arrangements 5 may be detachedly connected to the bottom element, so that they may be rearranged or moved to provide more space on the bottom element in certain areas of the liferaft.
  • the seating arrangements may be made of a polymeric material, such as natural rubber (NR), polyurethane (PU), thermoplastic poly urethane (TPU), butyl rubber (BR), polyvinylchloride (PVC), polychloroprene (CR), polyethylene (PE), or a combination thereof.
  • a polymeric material such as natural rubber (NR), polyurethane (PU), thermoplastic poly urethane (TPU), butyl rubber (BR), polyvinylchloride (PVC), polychloroprene (CR), polyethylene (PE), or a combination thereof.
  • the liferaft 1 according to the invention may have a capacity for between 6 and 500 persons.

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  1. Aufblasbares Rettungsfloß Folgendes umfassend: wenigstens einen aufblasbaren schwimmfähigen Schlauch (2), wobei der aufblasbare Schlauch sich am Außenrand umlaufend erstreckt, um einen im Wesentlichen ringförmigen Bereich bereitzustellen, und ein Bodenelement (4), das dafür eingerichtet ist, für den im Wesentlichen ringförmigen Bereich einen Boden bereitzustellen, wobei das aufblasbare Rettungsfloß Sitzeinrichtungen (5) umfasst, wobei die Sitzeinrichtungen aufblasbar sind und in einem aufgeblasenen Zustand einen vorgegebenen Druck haben und wobei der vorgegebene Druck niedriger ist als der Druck des aufblasbaren Schlauchs, wobei im ringförmigen Bereich wenigstens zwei Sitzeinrichtungen angeordnet sind.
  2. Aufblasbares Rettungsfloß nach Anspruch 1, wobei die Sitzeinrichtungen sich in einer Richtung weg vom aufblasbaren schwimmfähigen Schlauch quer über den ringförmigen Bereich erstrecken.
  3. Aufblasbares Rettungsfloß nach einem der vorhergehenden Ansprüche, wobei sich die Sitzeinrichtungen derart erstrecken, dass evakuierte Personen dazu in der Lage sind, auf jeder Seite der Sitzeinrichtungen zu sitzen, wobei sie sich gegenseitig als Rückenlehne verwenden.
  4. Aufblasbares Rettungsfloß nach einem der vorhergehenden Ansprüche, wobei die Sitzeinrichtungen wenigstens drei längslaufende Teile umfassen, wobei die längslaufenden Teile sich im Wesentlichen in einer Ebene erstrecken.
  5. Aufblasbares Rettungsfloß nach Anspruch 4, wobei die längslaufenden Teile miteinander verbundene getrennte Teile sind oder eine Einheit, die längslaufende Teile umfasst.
  6. Aufblasbares Rettungsfloß nach Anspruch 4 oder 5, wobei zwischen den längslaufenden Teilen längslaufende Rillen angeordnet sind.
  7. Aufblasbares Rettungsfloß nach einem der vorhergehenden Ansprüche, wobei quer über den ringförmigen Bereich und parallel zueinander mehrere Sitzeinrichtungen angeordnet sind, und dies mit einem vorgegebenen Abstand zwischen ihnen.
  8. Aufblasbares Rettungsfloß nach einem der vorhergehenden Ansprüche, wobei die Sitzeinrichtungen mit dem Bodenelement und/oder dem aufblasbaren Schlauch verbunden sind.
  9. Aufblasbares Rettungsfloß nach Anspruch 8, wobei die Sitzeinrichtungen mit dem Bodenelement und/oder dem aufblasbaren Schlauch abnehmbar oder fest verbunden sind.
  10. Aufblasbares Rettungsfloß nach einem der vorhergehenden Ansprüche, wobei quer zur Ausdehnung der Sitzeinrichtungen ein oder mehrere Durchgänge angeordnet sind.
  11. Aufblasbares Rettungsfloß nach einem der vorhergehenden Ansprüche, wobei die Sitzeinrichtungen das Rettungsfloß in einer Querrichtung versteifen.
  12. Aufblasbares Rettungsfloß nach einem der vorhergehenden Ansprüche, wobei wenigstens eine der Sitzeinrichtungen schwenkbar mit dem Bodenelement verbunden ist.
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