Classifications

• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B63—SHIPS OR OTHER WATERBORNE VESSELS; RELATED EQUIPMENT
  • B63B—SHIPS OR OTHER WATERBORNE VESSELS; EQUIPMENT FOR SHIPPING 
  • B63B45/00—Arrangements or adaptations of signalling or lighting devices
  • B63B45/04—Arrangements or adaptations of signalling or lighting devices the devices being intended to indicate the vessel or parts thereof
• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B63—SHIPS OR OTHER WATERBORNE VESSELS; RELATED EQUIPMENT
  • B63B—SHIPS OR OTHER WATERBORNE VESSELS; EQUIPMENT FOR SHIPPING 
  • B63B45/00—Arrangements or adaptations of signalling or lighting devices

Definitions

• the present invention relates to a device designed for signaling a boat, a ship, at anchor.
• a so-called “wetting ball” which is black in color and whose diameter is approximately 30 cm. It is advisable to display this signal ball on the boat, the ship, so that it can be visible from all sides.
• DE-U-2961568 discloses a signaling device which consists of a spherical beacon body made of a flexible outer casing and which is traversed by a central shaft.
• the envelope surrounds rods whose upper ends are articulated on a support fixed at the top of the central shaft, while their lower ends are articulated on a sleeve sliding along the central shaft.
• a cable passes through the sleeve and bypasses a guide roller placed at the top of the central shaft to descend down the sleeve. It is provided with two stops limiting the stroke of said sleeve.
• a pear is fixed on the strand of the cable passing inside the sleeve to, by pulling it downwards, deploy the beacon body in its sphere shape or let it go up under the effect of the elasticity of the rods stretch it in a slender manner.
• the beacon body can be enclosed, in its folded state, in a tubular sheath.
• a device for the signaling of a boat, a vessel, at anchor comprising a deformable signaling means between an active geometry in the form of a sphere and a substantially long storage geometry, a tubular sleeve rigid forming, on the one hand, a protective case in which the signaling means can take place in its elongated geometry and, on the other hand, a mast to support it in its active geometry;
• the device comprises a translational drive means adapted to output the signaling means of said tubular sleeve, a deformation means adapted to deform the signaling means to its active geometry, in the final phase of its output tubular sleeve.
• the signaling means is then positioned and shaped at the top of the mast. It is no longer necessary to hoist a conventional signaling means at each anchor, mooring the boat, the ship.
• the tubular sleeve is a protective case of the signaling means when the device is inactive. Its size is reduced.
• the translational drive means comprises a screw that can be rotated by means of a geared motor, a motor, to move a threaded nut held in a piston capable of sliding in the tubular sleeve to move the signaling means in translation, a guide means in translation being interposed between the piston and the tubular sleeve to force said piston to slide without the ability to rotate.
• the signaling means exits or enters the tubular sleeve in the direction of rotation of the geared motor, the engine.
• the signaling means comprises a fixed ring held in the upper part of a tube mounted to slide freely in the piston, a ring slidably mounted around the lower part of the tube, rods joining together , by means of articulations, the two rings, a flexible envelope capable of being shaped by the deformation of the rods during the sliding of the sliding ring.
• the signaling means can thus be deformed between its tubular storage geometry and its spherical signaling geometry.
• the deformation means comprises a closure flange of the upper part of the piston and through which the tube plunges inside thereof, the free end of the screw penetrating into the tube, an abutment holding the lower part of said tube up to the free end of said screw, so that during the exit of the piston, the closure flange pushes the sliding ring towards the fixed ring to deform the rods and bring the signaling means to its sphere-shaped geometry.
• the deformation of the signaling means towards its active geometry is implemented during the end of its exit from the tubular sleeve.
• At least one bar connects inside the piston, the threaded nut with the closure flange, the lower part of the tube being closed by a disc forming a component of said stop, the disc s extending below the circumference of the tube through which said bar passes, so that the signaling means can slide but not rotate.
• the signaling means does not rotate, in particular during its sliding phases, geometry change.
• said bar is internally hollow and slidably mounted in the piston, an electric cable passing through said bar to connect a housing incorporating a unit for controlling the operation of the device, said housing being disposed on the the upper end of the tube, said housing having a geometry in the form of a circular dome, of disk, so that it can serve as a protective cap capable of closing the tubular sleeve, in the stored position of the signaling means inside the protective case.
• the electrical cable is protected inside the bar forming a protective sheath, during the operation of the signaling device.
• control unit comprises a receiver adapted to receive signals from a remote control.
• Commissioning, retraction of the signaling means of the signaling device can be operated remotely using a remote control.
• the signaling device is provided with lighting means adjoining the housing.
• the lighting means provides a light signaling means to the device of the invention.
• a boat, a vessel, equipped with a signaling device, is also part of the invention.
• FIG. 1 represents a front view of a device for the signaling of a boat at anchor and whose signaling means which composes it is deployed in the shape of a sphere at the top of a mast according to the invention
• FIG. 2 represents a front view of a device for signaling a boat at anchor and whose signaling means is stored inside the mast forming a protective case according to the invention
• FIG. 3 represents a sectional front view of a signaling means deployed in its sphere form according to the invention
• FIG. 4a shows a sectional front view of an operating mechanism of a signaling means taken out of its case and in an elongated state according to the invention
• FIG. 4b is a sectional front view of an operating mechanism of a retracted signaling means, in the elongated state, in its case according to the invention
• FIG. 5 is a sectional front view of a detail of an operating mechanism of a signaling means according to the invention and
• FIG. 6 is a front view showing a detail of the construction of a signaling means according to the invention.
• the signaling device 100 shown in FIG. 1 is intended to be installed on a vessel, a vessel, to point out, in particular to mariners, that the vessel, the vessel, which is equipped with it is at anchor, that is to say it does not maneuver not.
• boat covering these two categories of boat is used in the following description. Knowing that a boat is moored, other mariners can concentrate their efforts on other potential sources of danger during navigation, maneuvering their boats.
• the device should preferably be fixed to the bow of the boat.
• the device 100 for signaling at anchor of a boat comprises a telescopic mast 200 which is surmounted by a signaling means 300.
• the mast 200 is composed of a rigid tubular sleeve 210 incorporating a telescopic maneuvering mechanism 400 of the signaling means 300 and which rests on a fixing base 220, intended to fix the device, for example on the deck of the boat.
• the base 220 consists of a plate attached to the lower end of the mast 200, considering the device oriented in a near-vertical position of fixation visible in this FIG. 1 and which corresponds to its position of use. It is traversed by holes 212 allowing the passage of studs, fixing screws of the device on the boat.
• the mast 200 is fixed perpendicularly to the base 220. It may however be fixed in an inclined manner, when the bridge on which the base 220 is to be fixed, is not horizontal.
• the signaling means 300 is designed to be deformable between a sphere-shaped geometry visible in this FIG. 1, and an elongated geometry, for example tubular, visible in FIGS. 4. In its spherical position, it overcomes the telescopic mast 200 to be positioned in height and thus be visible from the environment of the boat, whereas when it is tubular, it can be housed inside the sleeve 210 which then forms a protective case of the signaling means 300, when the boat maneuvers or sails.
• the telescopic maneuver mechanism 400 is designed, on the one hand, to release the signaling means 300 from its case and deploy it to put the device 100 into service and, on the other hand, to fold up the signaling means 300 and then store it in its case, the device 100 is then inoperative and the signaling means 300 protected from rain, spray.
• the signaling means 300 comprises a flexible envelope 310, for example fabricated in a fabric and preferably in a synthetic fabric, and which has, in this FIG. 1, a substantially spherical shape between its two poles. This spherical geometry is obtained by keeping the envelope taut, thanks to a plurality of flexible rods 320 which can be deformed by the operating mechanism 400 between a rectilinear shape, visible in FIG. 5 and a curved shape in the form of a circular arc, visible in FIG. 1, the rectilinear form being the natural and unconstrained geometry of the rods 320.
• the geometry of the envelope 310 is made from several panels 312 glued and / or sewn juxtaposed so as to form substantially a sphere in its expanded state.
• Longitudinal folds 314 joining its two poles are made longitudinally and at regular intervals, by gluing and / or sewing and inside which are threaded respectively the rods 320 intended to shape the envelope 310.
• the operating mechanism 400 comprises a translational drive means 410 of a piston 420 for sliding a tube 450 and around which the signaling means 300 is retained.
• the rods 320 are arranged around the tube 450 and delimit the tubular geometry of the signaling means 300.
• two joints 322 respectively terminate the two ends of each ring 320.
• the joints of the high row are retained on a fixed ring 330 secured to the tube 450 in its upper part.
• the joints of the low row are retained on a ring 340 which is slidably mounted around the tube 450.
• the lower ring 340 is supported on a closing flange 430 of the upper part of the piston 420 and through which the tube 450 plunges inside the piston 420.
• the translation drive means 410 is composed in Figs. 4, a geared motor 460 housed in the lower part of the tubular sleeve 210 and which is capable of rotating a screw 462 which goes up substantially to the upper outlet of said sleeve.
• the geared motor comprises an electric motor capable of being powered by a battery, an electric generator of the boat, a speed reducer, for example of the type comprising gears.
• the geared motor is replaced by a single motor electric.
• the electric motor is fixed on a yoke 214 held in the lower part of the tubular sleeve 210. This lower part is joined to an upper part of said sleeve, via a spacer 230 allowing access to the inside of the two parts of the sleeve to facilitate the mounting of the device 100 and its maintenance.
• the lower part of the screw 462 is retained in a rotational guiding means 463, preferably consisting of at least one bearing. balls.
• a mechanical coupling connects the geared motor 460 with this lower part of the screw 462.
• This translational guiding means 480 is constituted in FIG. 5, a cylinder 482 interposed between the piston 420 and the tubular sleeve 210, and cylindrical rollers 484 housed without play in longitudinal holes and which open at the periphery of the cylinder, so that the cylindrical rollers 484 can come into contact , by a rectilinear generatrix, with the inner wall of the tubular sleeve 210.
• the cylinder 482 is fixed around the piston 420 and in its lower part. There are two rows of rollers in this FIG. 5. They are held in place by two rings 486 fixed on both ends of the cylinder 482.
• the drive rotation in one direction or the other of the screw 462 by the motor-geared motor 460 causes the upward or downward sliding of the piston 420 in the tubular sleeve 210, which causes the output of the signaling means 300 of its case or its withdrawal in said case.
• the arrows M and D materialize this movement of the signaling means 300.
• the lower part of the tube 450 is closed by a disk 452 pierced at its center so that the screw 462 can slide freely in the tube 450.
• the free end of the screw 462 is provided with a retaining means 464, such as a washer fixed by a pin, and which is housed inside the tube 450 so that this screw holds said tube during the rise of the piston 420, when the retaining means bears on the disc 452.
• Beads 466 are interposed between the retaining means 464 and the disc 452 so that the rotation of the screw exerts a rotation torque as small as possible on the tube 450 during the climb, the down the piston 420.
• the balls 466 form with the retaining means 464, a thrust ball.
• At least one bar 422 connects, inside the piston 420, the threaded nut 440 with the closing flange 430 to prevent the signaling means 300 from rotating during the rotation of the screw 462.
• Two bars 422a and 422b are visible on this FIG. 5.
• One of them, and here the left one 422a, is non-traversing, that is to say that it does not protrude outside the piston 420 and is retained without play in the nut 440 and in the closing flange 430.
• the disc 452 extends below the circumference of the tube 450 and is traversed by the two bars 422 so that the tube 450 and therefore the signaling means 300 can slide but not turn, especially during the rotation of the screw 462.
• the second bar 422b is internally hollow and can slide freely in the threaded nut 440 and in the closure flange 430. It is retained at its lower end in a protection plate 216 covering the drive means 410.
• An electric cable C passes through the hollow bar 422b and travels from the base 220 to the top of the signaling means 300 where it is connected to a housing incorporating a control unit of the operation of the device 100.
• This housing is visible, in particular, in FIG. 3 and has the reference 250. It has a circular dome or disk shape and covers the upper end of the tube 450, so that it can serve as a protective cap capable of closing the tubular sleeve 210, in the stored position signaling means 300 within its protective case 210. This situation is shown in FIG. 4b.
• control unit U is connected to the cable C and which is in this embodiment an electric power cable.
• An antenna A is also connected to the control unit U for receiving and transmitting to a receiver constituting said control unit, control signals that can be transmitted by a remote control 500 to put the device 100 into operation or out of service.
• the antenna A is preferably positioned at the top of the dome of the disk.
• the signaling device 100 is provided with a lighting means 252, which is in this FIG. 1, integral with the housing 250, to indicate to mariners the presence near the boat, which is carrying said device. It consists of a ring of light-emitting diodes disposed at the periphery of the housing 250. It is connected to the control unit U. Its operation can be activated via the remote control 500 or be automated thanks to the presence of a twilight light sensor which is connected to said control unit.
• the device 100 It is fixed on a boat, for example on one of its bridges. It is connected to a power source. When the ship is docked, it is advisable to use the remote control 500 to exit and expand the signaling means 300. As soon as the boat maneuvers, the signaling means 300 can be lengthened and then retracted into the case 210 where it remains enclosed in its case 210 under the protective cap 250.
• the signaling device of the invention can remain stationary on the boat.
• the signaling means expands in height out of the mast, it also serving as a protective case when it should not be sported. In this situation, the device has a tubular shape relatively compact.

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