EP2990323B1 - Remote-controlled buoy - Google Patents

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EP2990323B1
EP2990323B1 EP15002157.4A EP15002157A EP2990323B1 EP 2990323 B1 EP2990323 B1 EP 2990323B1 EP 15002157 A EP15002157 A EP 15002157A EP 2990323 B1 EP2990323 B1 EP 2990323B1
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B63—SHIPS OR OTHER WATERBORNE VESSELS; RELATED EQUIPMENT
    • B63B—SHIPS OR OTHER WATERBORNE VESSELS; EQUIPMENT FOR SHIPPING 
    • B63B22/00—Buoys
    • B63B22/04—Fixations or other anchoring arrangements
    • B63B22/06—Fixations or other anchoring arrangements with means to cause the buoy to surface in response to a transmitted signal
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B63—SHIPS OR OTHER WATERBORNE VESSELS; RELATED EQUIPMENT
    • B63B—SHIPS OR OTHER WATERBORNE VESSELS; EQUIPMENT FOR SHIPPING 
    • B63B21/00—Tying-up; Shifting, towing, or pushing equipment; Anchoring
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B63—SHIPS OR OTHER WATERBORNE VESSELS; RELATED EQUIPMENT
    • B63B—SHIPS OR OTHER WATERBORNE VESSELS; EQUIPMENT FOR SHIPPING 
    • B63B22/00—Buoys
    • B63B22/02—Buoys specially adapted for mooring a vessel
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B63—SHIPS OR OTHER WATERBORNE VESSELS; RELATED EQUIPMENT
    • B63B—SHIPS OR OTHER WATERBORNE VESSELS; EQUIPMENT FOR SHIPPING 
    • B63B22/00—Buoys
    • B63B22/02—Buoys specially adapted for mooring a vessel
    • B63B22/021—Buoys specially adapted for mooring a vessel and for transferring fluids, e.g. liquids
    • B63B22/023—Buoys specially adapted for mooring a vessel and for transferring fluids, e.g. liquids submerged when not in use
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B63—SHIPS OR OTHER WATERBORNE VESSELS; RELATED EQUIPMENT
    • B63B—SHIPS OR OTHER WATERBORNE VESSELS; EQUIPMENT FOR SHIPPING 
    • B63B22/00—Buoys
    • B63B22/18—Buoys having means to control attitude or position, e.g. reaction surfaces or tether
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B63—SHIPS OR OTHER WATERBORNE VESSELS; RELATED EQUIPMENT
    • B63B—SHIPS OR OTHER WATERBORNE VESSELS; EQUIPMENT FOR SHIPPING 
    • B63B21/00—Tying-up; Shifting, towing, or pushing equipment; Anchoring
    • B63B2021/003—Mooring or anchoring equipment, not otherwise provided for
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B63—SHIPS OR OTHER WATERBORNE VESSELS; RELATED EQUIPMENT
    • B63B—SHIPS OR OTHER WATERBORNE VESSELS; EQUIPMENT FOR SHIPPING 
    • B63B2205/00—Tethers
    • B63B2205/02—Tether payout means
    • B63B2205/06—Reels for tethers

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  • the present invention relates to a remote-controlled buoy. More particularly, the present invention relates, preferentially, to a remote-controlled buoy for the retrieval of the mooring cable, to be used referring to different types of vessels (e.g. sailing vessels, motor vessels, etc), and preferably for recreational purposes, in a plurality of environments (e.g. seaside, river, lake, etc in which the same is used). The present invention also relates to a process for the retrieval of said mooring cable by means of the buoy itself.
  • vessels e.g. sailing vessels, motor vessels, etc
  • a plurality of environments e.g. seaside, river, lake, etc in which the same is used.
  • the present invention also relates to a process for the retrieval of said mooring cable by means of the buoy itself.
  • the present invention also refers to a process for the installation of the buoy, in association with a fixed sinker to indicate that a mooring place for a vessel is free or occupied.
  • said recreational boats are moored keeping the stern of the vessel facing towards the berthing place (for example, a dock), and ensuring the bow by means of a cable connected to a submerged catenary.
  • said presence of said floating buoy significantly cooperates in facilitating the operator in the retrieval of the cable.
  • said method of mooring has different problems, reason for which it is even forbidden in some touristic seaports. These problems are primarily related to the potential risks of tangling up, during mooring, of the cable (which is in fact floating suspended out of the water to effect of said floating buoy) to propellers, rudders or other mechanical parts of the vessel, thereby causing engines deadlock, blocking of rudders or in any case damage to said mechanical parts of said vessel.
  • said cable due to the fact that it is suspended in the fluid, and it is therefore susceptible to more or less large fluctuations, may cause similar accidents of tangling up involving other transiting vessels in the immediate nearby.
  • the retrieval of the mooring cable takes place only when the concerned vessel is located closed to the dock (or to another docking point), moment in which the retrieval of said cable is ensured manually or by a suitable means provided with at least one end shaped like a hook (for example, a boat hook), said cable is then caused to slide to the bow of the vessel, hoisting and fixing it at the end of said bow.
  • said mooring cable when not used, lies on the sea-bed, the same tends to accumulate bodies present on the sea-bed itself, such as algae, barnacles, mud, thus risking to cause more or less deep injuries to the operator during the manual retrieval of said rope.
  • the mooring cable once raised, can damage or otherwise consistently dirty the deck or other parts of the vessel.
  • Said risk is a particularly consistent in the case in which the operation is handled by an operator alone or in particularly adverse weather conditions. Likewise, in any case the risk remains that said cable gets entangled to the rudder or propeller of the vessel, in particular in correspondence of the steps of departure or mooring, so causing blockage or in any case damages to the same.
  • buoys that are able to sink together with the mooring cable which are connected to, to be dragged down to the sea-bed by the weight of said cable, and the same being connected to a catenary, to be later made to come to the surface only when there is a need for the retrieval of the cable for the purpose of docking.
  • a buoy of this type is disclosed, by way of example, in document No. FR 2,109,096 A5 , as shown in Figure 1 herewith attached.
  • said known buoys have a structure comprising compressed air means in order to make its return to the surface possible, following to a specific command (for example imparted by means of ultrasonic transmitting/receiving systems) it is required that the operator cyclically provides to refill said foresaid compressed air means.
  • buoys mostly require, for their installation, the presence of permanent installations on the quay, with consequences in terms of relatively consistent dimensions and difficulty in case of displacement to docking the place.
  • any subsequent maintenance interventions on said installations are often complex and with essentially high costs, since they necessarily require the intervention of specialized operators.
  • said known buoys have an essentially complex structure, so difficult in maintenance, difficult to be reproduced on an industrial scale, and having essentially high costs.
  • document No. US 5,007,029 discloses a device for the retrieval of an object lying on the sea-bed (an embodiment schematically illustrated in Figures 5A and 5B herewith attached), in which said apparatus includes a buoy, essentially cylindrical, and connected to said object which, in response to an appropriate remotely imparted signal, returns to the surface for hydrostatic thrust, while the unwinding of a belt or the like, connected to the same, takes place ( Figure 5A ), until the point in which, by floating on the water surface, the axis of said buoy is in an essentially horizontal position ( Figure 5B ); at this point, it is possible to proceed with the retrieval of the object, lying on the sea-bed, by means of winding said belt on the outer surface of said buoy, which performs a function of a non-motorized winder shaft with horizontal axis.
  • said device could hardly be conveniently used for the recovery of a mooring cable of a vessel.
  • the present invention aims to provide a remedy to the same.
  • An object of this invention according to claim 1 is to provide a remote-controlled buoy, which allows the operator to perform the above said operations of retrieval of the mooring cable, in a safe and easy way even in case he is operating alone and/or in adverse weather conditions and/or in cramped conditions.
  • buoy as specified, which has an essentially simple structure, easy in maintenance, easily reproducible on an industrial scale and with essentially low cost.
  • the present invention provides a remote-controlled buoy, the essential characteristic of which is the subject of the main claim, while further advantageous characteristics of the invention are described in the dependent claims 2 to 8.
  • the independent claim 9 relates to a procedure for the retrieval of a mooring cable for a vessel by means of said buoy.
  • the independent claim 10 refers to a procedure for the use of the buoy, in association with a fixed sinker, to indicate that a mooring place for a vessel is free or occupied.
  • said remote-controlled buoy including a main body for protection and buoyancy, a rope provided at one end with dismountable connecting means and, at the other end, connected to a winding device, provided on the inside of said main body, is characterized in that it comprises:
  • a remote-controlled buoy according to an embodiment of the present invention is indicated as a whole with 10.
  • the illustrated embodiment refers, in particular, to a remote-controlled buoy 10 for the retrieval of a retrieval cable C of a vessel N.
  • said buoy according to the invention is also suitable to be used, in association with a fixed sinker, to indicate that a mooring place for a vessel is free or occupied.
  • said illustrated embodiment refers to a case of stern mooring; however, it is clear that the buoy 10 according to the present invention can be validly used also with reference to other types of mooring.
  • the above illustrated embodiment refers, by way of mere example, to a case of quay docking; in any case it is important to take into account that the buoy 10 according to the present invention is suitable to be used for different types of mooring, for example with respect to fixed or floating piers, floating docks or similar.
  • buoy 10 is primarily used with reference to recreational purposes vessels, the same can nonetheless be used with reference to different categories of vessels.
  • Said buoy 10 includes, a main body 11 for protection and buoyancy, a rope 12 provided at one end with dismountable connecting means 12.1 and, at the other end, connected to a winding device 13, provided on the inside of said main body 11.
  • said buoy 10 comprises (in particular, Figures 7 and 8 ):
  • said buoy 10 sinks together with a retrieval cable C ( Figure 10 ), i.e. together with a fixed mooring to be placed on the sea-bed (not shown variant), one or the other being connected thereto by means of said dismountable connecting means 12.1; when said remote-control means 16 are operated and determine the said operating position of said motor means 14; 24, it returns to the surface automatically due to hydrostatic thrust, while said rope 12 is unwound from said rotating shaft 13.1 and, in the case of connection with said fixed mooring, floats in a stationary manner to the surface (not shown variant), whereas, if it is connected to said cable C, it can be retrieved onto a vessel N, through the intervention of an operator O, by dragging the cable C together with said wound rope 12 ( Figure 12 ), and it is released from said cable C by disengaging said dismountable connecting means 12.1, fixed to said other end of said rope 12, which is rewound onto said shaft 13.1 by means of said motor means
  • said motor means 14 comprise a spring motor, wherein elastic means are pre-charged by unwinding said rope 12 onto said shaft 13.1.
  • said motor means 24 may comprise an electric motor 24.1 with proper supply and control electrical means (not shown in the figure), that rotates said shaft 13.1 in the direction of winding and unwinding of said rope 12.
  • said automatic stoppage means comprise ratchet stoppage means, urged by their own elastic means to engage with said shaft 13.1, when said rope 12 is fully wound on said shaft 13.1, and selectively returned against the action of said own elastic means, by means of actuator means 15.
  • said actuator means 15 can be replaced by electro-magnetic means (not illustrated variant).
  • said remote-control means 16 comprise, in said buoy 10, electric battery power supply means 16.2 and electronic control micro-circuit means (not shown), for the powering and selective control of said actuator means 15, electro-magnetic means respectively, receiving electronic means of coded electrical signal, (not shown), operatively connected with said electronic micro-circuit means and, separate from said buoy 10, remote-control transmitter means 16.1 and emitter means 16.3 for a coded electrical signal corresponding to the coded electrical signal of said signal receiving means.
  • Said transmitter means 16.1 and emitter means 16.3 are placed on the vessel N.
  • said electronic micro-circuit means control said actuator means 15, electro-magnetic means respectively, which release said ratchet means from said rotating shaft 13.1, and said rope 12 can be freely unwound with respect to said shaft 13.1.
  • said receiver means, transmitter means respectively may comprise radio waves receiver means, transmitter means respectively.
  • the same may comprise infrared receiver means, transmitter means respectively.
  • said rope 12 is substantially ribbon-like and said main body 11 for protection and buoyancy comprises a winding drum casing 11.1 containing said rotary shaft 13.1 and a substantial part of said rope 12 in coaxial arrangement.
  • said buoy 10 comprises photovoltaic panel means (not illustrated in the figures herewith attached), conveniently located on the surface of the same, and exposed to solar radiation as soon as the same is in an operating position of floating or is suspended outside of water for the recharging of said battery means 16.2.
  • said buoy 10 comprises permanent magnet means 17, located on the upper part of said main body 11 for protection and buoyancy, for the dismountable connection with respect to magnetic means for fastening the buoy 10 to a handrail B or railing of said vessel N.
  • Said permanent magnetic means 17 may also be used for the fastening to recovery means (not illustrated) of the buoy 10, to facilitate the operator O in the operations of recovery of the same.
  • said buoy 10 according to the present embodiment of the invention ( figure 6 to 8 ) comprises eyelet means 18 for the retrieval of said buoy 10 by a boat hook M, as schematically shown in figure 12 .
  • Said buoy 10 may comprise, on its outer surface, visual means of light position signal (not illustrated) operatively connected to said electronic control micro-circuit means and powered by said battery means 16.2.
  • said buoy 10 may also comprise twilight sensor means (not illustrated) operatively connected to said electronic control micro-circuit means and powered by said battery means 16.2, to determine, below a predetermined threshold of ambient light, the automatic ignition of visual means of position light signalling.
  • said buoy 10 may also include, on the outer surface of said main body 11, outer covering protection (not visible in the figure), advantageously made of polymeric material.
  • the buoy 10 is made of ABS; it is of course intended that different construction materials, provided that are suitable to this purpose, are likewise included within the present invention.
  • said remote-controlled buoy 10 for the retrieval of a mooring cable of a vessel allows the operator to perform the above said operations for the recovering of the mooring cable in a safe and easy way, even in cases in which he has to operate alone and/or in adverse weather conditions and/or in cramped conditions.
  • said buoy 10 does not require, for its use, the previous disposition of fixed installations and, consequently, it can be used in different berth conditions (e.g., with respect to fixed or variable pillars, floating wharfs or similar), not only in the case of docking with respect to a quay, or it can be easily transported and relocated.
  • said buoy 10 does not require the operator to cyclically perform refilling operations of the same for its operation, so greatly facilitating the same operator, in particular when he has to operate alone and/or in adverse weather conditions and/or in cramped conditions.
  • said buoy 10 as specified has an essentially simple structure, easy in maintenance, easily reproducible on an industrial scale and with essentially contained costs. Furthermore, present invention provides a simple and safe procedure for the retrieval of said mooring rope, by means of the buoy 10 as mentioned.
  • the present invention provides an easy and safe procedure for the use of the above specified buoy, in association with a fixed sinker, to indicate if a mooring place for a vessel is free or occupied.
  • the present invention allows to achieve in a simple and advantageous way the objects explained in the introduction.

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