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EP2345578B1
EP2345578B1 EP10014939.2A EP10014939A EP2345578B1 EP 2345578 B1 EP2345578 B1 EP 2345578B1 EP 10014939 A EP10014939 A EP 10014939A EP 2345578 B1 EP2345578 B1 EP 2345578B1
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Marco Dipl.-Ing. Mundt
Jörn Dipl.-Ing. Bargmann
Sven Dipl.-Ing. Dittmann
Sven Kohsiek
Jens Dipl.-Ing. Fischer
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B63—SHIPS OR OTHER WATERBORNE VESSELS; RELATED EQUIPMENT
    • B63G—OFFENSIVE OR DEFENSIVE ARRANGEMENTS ON VESSELS; MINE-LAYING; MINE-SWEEPING; SUBMARINES; AIRCRAFT CARRIERS
    • B63G8/00—Underwater vessels, e.g. submarines; Equipment specially adapted therefor
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B63—SHIPS OR OTHER WATERBORNE VESSELS; RELATED EQUIPMENT
    • B63G—OFFENSIVE OR DEFENSIVE ARRANGEMENTS ON VESSELS; MINE-LAYING; MINE-SWEEPING; SUBMARINES; AIRCRAFT CARRIERS
    • B63G8/00—Underwater vessels, e.g. submarines; Equipment specially adapted therefor
    • B63G8/40—Rescue equipment for personnel
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B63—SHIPS OR OTHER WATERBORNE VESSELS; RELATED EQUIPMENT
    • B63G—OFFENSIVE OR DEFENSIVE ARRANGEMENTS ON VESSELS; MINE-LAYING; MINE-SWEEPING; SUBMARINES; AIRCRAFT CARRIERS
    • B63G8/00—Underwater vessels, e.g. submarines; Equipment specially adapted therefor
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  • the invention relates to a submarine with the features specified in the preamble of claim 1.
  • the starting point of the invention form military submarines, which have at least one vertically oriented lock, which at least partially passes through the pressure body.
  • the locks of these submarines can be used to bring divers out of submerged submarines and catch them up.
  • the locks can be used to deploy weapons and underwater vehicles.
  • the equipment of these locks is usually only for a specific purpose, for example, only to the application of certain weapons or only to the withdrawal of divers, adapted.
  • z. B. trained for deploying special weapons lock may not at all suitable for discharging other objects or people and is in a use of a submarine in which such weapons should not be deployed, an unused space within the submarine, which in particular with regard to small space available smaller submarines is disadvantageous.
  • the US 5,677,506 describes a submarine with a pressure vessel of the submarine in the vertical direction at least partially passing through the lock.
  • the lock is designed to receive a module, wherein the module can be an extendable turret or an extendable tower for deploying or retrieving the crew.
  • the present invention seeks to provide a submarine with a vertically oriented lock, which can be used more versatile compared to the locks previously known submarines.
  • the submarine according to the invention has, in a manner known per se, a pressure body in which at least one vertically oriented lock is formed.
  • This lock passes through the pressure hull of the submarine at least partially and has a top deck-side lock opening.
  • the lock opening can be closed pressure-tight with a lid.
  • the lock has a lock pressure body and an insert which can be inserted into the lock pressure body. This deployment is operationally selectable from a variety of different uses.
  • the submarine according to the invention several inserts are provided for the lock pressure body, which differ in terms of their equipment depending on the operation, the equipment of the individual inserts being adapted to different lock uses. So z.
  • the a closed exit or entry space for divers or in a closed design particularly advantageously forms a decompression chamber. If the deployment profile of the submarine according to the invention provides for the deployment of special weapons or underwater vehicles, in turn such operations can be used which have devices for storing and deploying these weapons or underwater vehicles.
  • such inserts can be used in the lock pressure body, for example, form a living space for the crew of the submarine, a fuel bunker, a detention cell or a storage room.
  • the conversion of the lock, d. H. the removal and installation of the individual inserts, can be done in a simple manner in the emerged state.
  • an insert located in the sluice pressure body can be lifted out of the sluice pressure body via the sluice opening by means of a crane and then another insert into the sluice pressure body can be inserted by means of the crane.
  • Maintenance work on the inserts and their equipment with weapons or underwater vehicles can be made advantageously on land or on a surface ship.
  • the inserts are preferably self-supporting.
  • the individual inserts can have a self-supporting frame.
  • This embodiment makes it possible to set up the inserts in the lock pressure body but also outside the submarine freestanding.
  • the shape and dimensions of the frame can advantageously correspond to the inner cross section and the length of the lock pressure body.
  • the frame can also serve for releasably securing the inserts in the lock pressure body. This attachment can z. B. via screw the frame with the lock pressure body done.
  • the individual inserts can be stored shock-resistant within the lock body pressure.
  • the inserts can advantageously means for shock-proof storage in the lock pressure body exhibit. These means can be arranged on the outer sides of the inserts, which form a contact area with the lock pressure body in the installed position.
  • spring damping elements can be arranged between the frame and the lock pressure body on the frame of the inserts in each case at an area which forms a standing surface of the individual inserts in the lock pressure body.
  • Such spring damping elements can also be arranged between the frame and the circumferential wall surrounding the frame of the lock pressure body.
  • lock pressure body relative to the pressure vessel interior of the submarine surrounding the lock is a hermetically sealed system, in this context are advantageously through the wall of the lock pressure body bushings, for example, electrical energy, electrical control signals, communication, hydraulics, water or gases such. As compressed air, oxygen, nitrogen or breathing air provided.
  • the inserts connections for connection to a corresponding outside the lock pressure body arranged electrical line system exhibit.
  • the connection is advantageously carried out within the lock pressure body to the there through the wall of the lock pressure body electrical lines.
  • the inserts can further advantageously terminals for connection to an outside of the Have sluice pressure body disposed hydraulic and / or water-carrying, fuel-carrying, gas-carrying line system.
  • the lock pressure body can essentially over the entire pressure element diameter, d. H. extend from an upper deck of the submarine to the keel, wherein keel side, a second lock opening may be provided.
  • a arranged in the region of the keel second lock opening is particularly useful for dispensing such objects from the submarine, which have no buoyancy, so can be thrown off in a simple manner by the keel-side lock opening and then sink.
  • the insert can be used in the sluice-pressure body designed for storing and deploying underwater-rifling weapons such as mines.
  • the insert preferably has a laying shaft. This laying shaft expediently connects directly to the keel-side lock opening.
  • the laying shaft is a guide for the ejected underwater rifles to the keel-side lock opening through which the rifles leave the submarine.
  • the insert for deploying underwater rifles can have at least one carousel device and particularly advantageously a plurality of carousel devices arranged one above the other in the longitudinal direction of the insert for storing and discharging the underwater rifles.
  • a carousel device is to be understood as a motor-driven turntable on which several underwater rifles are mounted distributed over the circumference of the turntable. To throw off a rifle, the turntable can do so be rotated so that the submersible from the submarine rifle weapon is in a defined throwing position.
  • the at least one carousel device is arranged around the laying shaft for discharging the underwater rifles.
  • the carousel device or a plurality of carousel devices can be arranged in an annular manner around the preferably cylindrical laying shaft, the laying shaft having on the circumference at least one opening through which a weapon to be dropped from the submarine can be brought from the carousel device into the laying shaft.
  • the rifles are not stored directly on the turntable of the carousel device.
  • the at least one carousel device or the plurality of carousel devices is advantageously equipped with a plurality of storage containers for storing in each case an underwater barrier weapon.
  • the underwater rifles are set and secured against unintentional movements.
  • the storage containers are designed substantially as half-shell elements which engage around the underwater barrier weapon on a side remote from the laying shaft guided by the carousel device.
  • the storage container can advantageously advantageously be hydraulically swiveled in the direction of the laying shaft.
  • the individual storage containers can be hinged to the turntable of the carousel device such that they can be tilted by means of a hydraulic drive in the direction of the laying shaft, whereby the stored in the storage containers underwater rifles fall over an opening formed on the laying shaft opening in the laying shaft.
  • a pressure body 2 which is surrounded in an upper region of an upper deck 12.
  • a lock 8 passes through the pressure body 2 in the vertical direction.
  • the lock 8 has a lock pressure body 10, which extends from a lock opening arranged directly below the upper deck 12 to a lock opening arranged in the region of the keel.
  • the calculation pressure of the lock pressure body 10 corresponds to that of the pressure body 2 of the submarine.
  • the lock opening arranged directly below the upper deck 12 is closed by a pivotable cover 14, while a pivotable cover 16 is provided for pivoting the keel-side lock opening.
  • the lock pressure body 10 tapers from a lock pressure body section 18 via a shoulder 20 to a lock print body section directly adjoining the keel-side lock opening 22, which is used to launch submarine rifles from the submarine. Accordingly, the inner cross section of the lock printhead portion 22 is substantially matched to the cross-sectional dimensions of the submersible underwater rifles.
  • a first insert 24 is shown for incorporation into the slipper pressure body 10 of the submarine.
  • the insert 24 is designed to deploy underwater rifles in the form of sea mines 26 via the lock pressure body section 18.
  • the insert 24 has an annular foundation plate 28 which rests upon installation of the insert 24 in the lock pressure body 10 on the shoulder 20 formed in the lock pressure body 10.
  • the foundation plate 28 has a circular opening, whose inner cross section corresponds to the inner cross section of the lock pressure body portion 22 and is aligned.
  • a hollow cylindrical laying shaft 30 and a longitudinal member 32 extend normal to the side facing away from the shoulder 20 flat side.
  • the laying shaft 30 is arranged concentrically to the foundation plate 28 and forms when installing the insert 24 in the lock pressure body 10 in extension of the lock pressure body portion 22 with the lock pressure body portion 22 a common channel.
  • the longitudinal member 32 is arranged in the region of the outer circumference of the foundation plate 28. At the spaced apart from the foundation plate 28 ends of laying shaft 30 and longitudinal member 32 of the laying shaft 30 and the longitudinal member 32 are connected to each other via a cross member 34. Together, the foundation plate 28, the laying shaft 30, the longitudinal member 32 and the cross member 34 form a self-supporting frame of the insert 24th
  • each of the carousel devices 38 has a turntable 40 rotatable about the laying shaft 30.
  • the rotational movement of the turntables 40 is generated by a motor 42 which is disposed at the end of the laying shaft 30 spaced from the foundation plate 28.
  • the maritime mines 26 are mounted in substantially half-shell-shaped storage containers 44, wherein on each turntable 40 a plurality of storage containers 44 evenly spaced around the circumference of the turntables 40 are arranged distributed.
  • the storage containers 44 are pivotally mounted transversely to their longitudinal extent over arranged in the region of the inner periphery of the turntables 40 joints 46. All storage containers 44 have on a side facing away from the laying shaft 30 on a relative to the laying shaft 30 radially outwardly projecting projection 48.
  • a storage container 44 is located in a position between the laying shaft 30 and the longitudinal member 32, an extensible piston of a piston-cylinder arrangement 50 arranged on the longitudinal member 32 is supported on each underside of the projection 48 facing the respective turntable 40 in each carousel device 38 ,
  • the piston of the piston-cylinder assembly 50 of the storage container in question 44 can be pivoted about the hinge 46 in the direction of laying shaft 30, whereby the stored in this storage container 44 sea mine 26 via a formed on the peripheral wall of the laying shaft 30 opening 52 in the Laying shaft 30 is tilted and then fall over the lock printing body section 18 due to gravity from the submarine.
  • the in Fig. 3 illustrated second insert 54 for incorporation into the lock pressure body 10 of the submarine is used to deploy an unmanned underwater vehicle 56 from the submarine.
  • the insert 54 also has an annular foundation plate 28.
  • this foundation plate 28 is supported for shock-proof storage of the insert 54 via spring damping elements 58, which are arranged in the installed position on the flat 20 of the lock body 10 facing flat side of the foundation plate 28 on the shoulder 20 of the lock pressure body 10th from.
  • a plurality of arranged on the outer edge of the foundation plate 28 longitudinal beams 60 extend normal to the flat side. These longitudinal members 60 are surrounded by three longitudinal members 60 surrounding the outer ring members 62. Together, the foundation plate 28, the side rails 60 and the ring members 62 form a self-supporting frame of the insert 54.
  • two guide rails 64 aligned parallel to the longitudinal members 60 are arranged on the foundation plate 28, likewise at its outer edge.
  • the guide rails 64 are provided for guiding a storage frame 66, which can be moved out of the insert 54 in the longitudinal direction of the insert 54, for the underwater vehicle 56.
  • the storage rack 66 is shown in two different travel positions, namely in a storage position within the insert 54 and in a launch position of the underwater vehicle 56 outside of the insert 54.
  • the storage rack 66 is pivotable so that it can be moved from a position in the storage position in which the longitudinal axis of the underwater vehicle 56 is oriented substantially in the longitudinal direction of the insert 54 in the start position outside of the insert 54 in a position , in the longitudinal axis of the underwater vehicle 56 is oriented substantially transversely to the longitudinal extent of the insert 54.
  • the in Fig. 4 illustrated insert 68 forms a space for diving operations.
  • This insert 68 has a similar self-supporting frame as the insert 54 and is composed of a foundation part 70, arranged thereon longitudinal members 72 and three of the longitudinal members 72 outside ring members 74.
  • the foundation part of the insert 68 is supported on several spring damping elements 58 to protect against shock loads.
  • a conductor 76 aligned parallel to the longitudinal members 72 is arranged on its outer edge and extends essentially over the entire length of the insert 68.
  • the ladder 76 connects three levels of support stacked in the insert 68, which are formed by plates 78 and gratings 78, respectively.
  • Each of the plates 78 and Gräting 78 has in the region of the conductor 76 extending from the outer edge in the direction of the center of the respective plate / Gräting 78 recess 80, which forms an access opening to the respective residence level through which the divers can also ascend.
  • At the levels of residence there are several diver sitting devices 82 during the drainage of the lock body 10.
  • Each occupancy level is provided with connections to a breathing air system 84. Below the lowest level of habitation there is a storage room 86 for divers' equipment.

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  1. Sous-marin comprenant une coque pressurisée (2), dans lequel est formé au moins un sas (8) comportant une ouverture de sas du côté du pont supérieur, orienté verticalement et traversant au moins partiellement la coque pressurisée (2), le sas (8) possédant une coque pressurisée de sas (10) et un insert (24, 54, 68) dépendant de l'opération qui peut être incorporé dans la coque pressurisée de sas (10), l'insert (24, 54, 68) pouvant être choisi parmi une pluralité d'inserts (24, 54, 68) différents, caractérisé en ce que les inserts (24, 54, 68) possèdent des éléments d'amortissement à ressort (58) destinés à les supporter avec résistance aux chocs dans la coque pressurisée de sas (10), lesquels sont disposés entre un cadre des inserts (24, 54, 68) et la coque pressurisée de sas (10).
  2. Sous-marin selon la revendication 1, caractérisé en ce que les inserts (24, 54, 68) sont réalisés autoportants.
  3. Sous-marin selon l'une des revendications précédentes, caractérisé en ce que les inserts (24, 54, 68) possèdent des raccords destinés au raccordement à un système de conduites électrique et/ou hydraulique, de circulation d'eau et de circulation de gaz, disposé à l'extérieur de la coque pressurisée de sas (10).
  4. Sous-marin selon l'une des revendications précédentes, caractérisé en ce que les inserts (24, 54, 68) possèdent des raccords destinés au raccordement à un système hydraulique disposé à l'extérieur de la coque pressurisée de sas (10).
  5. Sous-marin selon l'une des revendications précédentes, caractérisé en ce que la coque pressurisée de sas (10) s'étend sensiblement sur la totalité du diamètre de la coque pressurisée (2) et possède, du côté de la quille, une deuxième ouverture de sas.
  6. Sous-marin selon l'une des revendications précédentes, caractérisé en ce qu'un insert (24) est configuré pour l'entreposage et la mise à l'eau d'armes de blocage sous-marines.
  7. Sous-marin selon la revendication 6, caractérisé en ce que l'insert (24) possède un puits de pose (30) servant à la mise à l'eau des armes de blocage sous-marines, lequel se rattache à l'ouverture de sas du côté de la quille.
  8. Sous-marin selon la revendication 7, caractérisé en ce que l'insert (24) possède au moins un dispositif à carrousel (38) destiné à l'entreposage et à la mise à l'eau des armes de blocage sous-marines.
  9. Sous-marin selon la revendication 7 ou 8, caractérisé en ce que l'insert (24) possède plusieurs dispositifs à carrousel (38) disposés les uns au-dessus des autres dans le sens longitudinal de l'insert (24).
  10. Sous-marin selon les revendications 8 ou 9, caractérisé en ce qu'au moins un dispositif à carrousel (38) est disposé autour du puits de pose (30) en vue de la mise à l'eau des armes de blocage sous-marines.
  11. Sous-marin selon l'une des revendications 8 à 10, caractérisé en ce qu'au moins un dispositif à carrousel (38) possède plusieurs contenants de stockage (44) destinés au stockage respectif d'une arme de blocage sous-marine.
  12. Sous-marin selon la revendication 11, caractérisé en ce que le contenant de stockage (44) peut être pivoté en direction du puits de pose (30), de préférence hydrauliquement.
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