KR101244888B1 - Submarine - Google Patents

Abstract

The submarine includes at least one vertically arranged locking internal pressure hull. This lock penetrates at least partially the internal pressure hull of the submarine and has a lock passage on the top-deck side. The lock includes a lock breakout angle and an insert which can be integrated in the lock breakout angle. This insert can be selected from several different inserts depending on the operation.

Description

Submarine {Submarine}

The present invention relates to a submarine having the configurations described in the preamble of claim 1.

Military submarines comprising at least one vertically arranged lock at least partially penetrating the pressure hull form the basis of the present invention. The locks on these submarines serve to guide divers into and out of submerged submarines. Moreover, these locks may be used to transport weapons and underwater equipment out. However, the design of these locks is usually always designed for a particular application, for example only to carry certain weapons outward, or just to release divers. Thus, for example, locks designed to carry certain weapons outward are not suitable for carrying other objects or people outwards, and submarines in the deployment of submarines equipped with such weapons without being transported outwards. Unused space is required within this, which is particularly disadvantageous with regard to the small space utilization of smaller submarines.

It is an object of the present invention to provide a submarine with vertically arranged locks which can be used more versatile as compared to the locks of submarines known to date.

The object of the present invention is achieved by a submarine having the configuration as claimed in claim 1. A more advantageous configuration of this submarine can be understood from the dependent claims, the description and the drawings. Configurations specified in the respective dependent claims and the detailed description or combinations thereof form the spirit of the invention according to claim 1.

The submarine according to the present invention, as is well known, comprises a pressure resistant hull angle in which at least one vertically arranged lock is formed. The lock penetrates at least partially the internal pressure hull of the submarine and has an upper-deck side lock passage. The lock passage can be closed by a cover by means of pressure contact. According to the invention, the lock comprises an insert which can be coupled into the lock breakdown wire angle and into the lock breakdown wire angle. This insert can be selected according to operation from a number of different inserts.

Therefore, the submarine according to the present invention is provided with a plurality of inserts for the internal pressure hull angle, these inserts are different in design or operation dependence, and the design of the individual inserts is adapted to the use of different locks. That is, for example, in an operating scenario where divers or special teams are transported out of a submarine or housed in a submarine in a submerged submarine, such inserts are incorporated into the lock-out pressure hull, which is a closed exit space for divers or The inlet space is formed and in particular this closed design has the advantage of forming a decompression chamber. If the insert structure of the submarine according to the invention faces the situation of carrying out certain weapons or submersibles, such inserts may also be used, which may be used to store or deploy these weapons or submersibles. Equipped. In cases where the submarine's locks are not used at all for internal or external transport of people or objects, such inserts can be applied in the internal pressure hull, for example, living spaces, fuel depots, detention spaces or storage for submarine crew members. Can be used as a space.

The refitting of the locks, ie the fitting and removal of the individual inserts, can be done simply with the submarine floating on the surface. Here, the insert located in the lock breakout angle can be lifted out of the lock breakout angle through the lock passage by a crane, and then another insert can be put into the lock breakout angle by the crane. The maintenance of the inserts as well as the installation of weapons or underwater devices has the advantage that they can be carried out on the ground or underwater.

Preferably, the inserts are designed in a self supporting manner. As such, the individual inserts have their own supporting frames. This design allows for inserts to be placed within the lock internal pressure hull and in a free standing manner outside the submarine. The shape and dimensions of the frame are advantageously made to match the internal cross section and length of the lock breakdown line angle in order to optimally utilize the inner space of the breakdown breakdown line angle. The frame also serves to releasably engage the inserts within the lock breakout angle. This coupling may be made, for example, by screwing the frame to the lock breakout angle.

Individual inserts are mounted to protect against impact within the lock internal pressure hull to protect against submarine shaking caused by collisions or underwater weapons. Therefore, it is advantageous for these inserts to include impact resistant mounting means within the lock internal pressure line angle. This means is arranged on the outside of the inserts and forms a contact area with the lock breakdown line angle in the mounted state. On the inserts frame, spring buffer members can be arranged between the frame and the lock resistance line angle, respectively, in the region forming the support surface of the individual inserts within the lock resistance line angle. Such spring cushioning members may also be disposed between the frame and the peripheral wall of the internal pressure line angle surrounding the frame.

Usefully, several functional and technical interfaces can be provided between the individual inserts and the submarine. Since the lock internal pressure hull angle means a closed system sealed inside the internal pressure hull of the submarine enclosing the lock, in this context, for example, electrical energy, electrical control signals, communication, water pressure, water or gas, compression It is advantageous that a lead-through hole for air, oxygen, nitrogen or breathing air or the like is provided through the wall of the internal pressure line angle.

The inserts are used for the electrical energy supply of facilities carried into the inserts within the lock breakout angle and for the transfer of data to or from the outside of the breakout lock angle and to the outside of the lock breakout angle. For transmission, it includes a connection for connection to a corresponding electrical lead system disposed outside the lock breakdown wire angle. Here, the connection portion is usefully connected in the lock breakdown line angle to the electric leads guided through the wall of the breakdown breakdown line angle.

These inserts are also advantageously provided with connections for connection to hydrogen and / or water-guided, fuel-guided, gas-guided conduit systems which are arranged outside the lock breakout line in the same way as electrical connections.

In a more preferred submarine design in accordance with the present invention, the lock internal pressure hull may basically extend beyond the diameter of the entire internal hull angle, ie from the upper deck of the submarine to the keel, and a second lock passage may be present on the keel side. . The second lock passage located in the keel area has no buoyancy, which creates a special discernment for carrying out of the submarine any objects that can simply be discharged and sink through the keel-side lock passage.

If the submarine has such keel-side lock passages, more preferred inserts designed to store and deploy underwater weapons such as sea mines may be inserted into the lock hull. The insert has a carrying shaft for placing these underwater weapons. This conveying shaft is usefully connected directly to the keel side lock passage. This transport shaft forms a guide for underwater barrier weapons to be discharged from the submarine into the keel side passage where the weapons are released.

In another design, the insert for deploying the underwater barrier weapons comprises at least one rotary shelf device and particularly useful several turntables arranged one after the other in the longitudinal direction of the insert for storing and withdrawing the underwater barrier weapons. The devices are provided. Here, the rotary lathe can be understood as a rotary table driven by a motor, on which several underwater barrier weapons are stored and distributed over the edge of the rotary table. In order to discharge the barrier weapons, the turntable is rotated so that the underwater barrier weapon for transporting out of the submarine is placed in the specified discharge position.

In the present context, it is preferred that at least one rotary shelf device be arranged around the carrying shaft for carrying the underwater barrier weapons. That is, this rotary shelf device or several rotary shelf devices are preferably arranged in a ring shape around a cylindrical transport axis, which transport path includes at least one passageway around which weapons to be discharged from the submarine are released. It is conveyed to the transport shaft by the rotary lathe.

Preferably, barrier weapons are not stored directly on the rotary table of the rotary shelf apparatus. Instead, the at least one rotating device or several rotating devices are preferably provided with a plurality of containers for storing one underwater barrier weapon. These underwater barrier weapons are secured to these storage containers to be secured against unintended movements. Preferably, these storage containers are basically designed as semi-shell elements which are joined around the underwater barrier weapon at the side spaced apart from the transport shaft passing through the rotating device.

These storage containers may preferably be hydraulically rotatable from the storage container of the rotating device to the transport shaft so that the underwater barrier weapon to be discharged can be transported out of the submarine via the rotation shaft. As such, the individual storage containers are connected on the rotating table of the rotating device so as to be inclined in the direction of the transport shaft by a hydraulic drive method, which means that the underwater barrier weapons mounted on the storage containers fall to the transport shaft through a passage formed on the transport shaft. it means.

The submarine according to the present invention is provided with a plurality of inserts for the internal pressure hull angle, these inserts are different in design or operation dependence, and the design of the individual inserts is adapted to the use of different locks. Therefore, there is an advantage that is utilized in various ways depending on the use.

In addition, individual inserts are mounted in an anti-shock method within the lock internal pressure hull to prevent submarine shaking caused by collisions or underwater weapons. Therefore, these inserts have the advantage of including shockproof mounting means within the lock breakdown line angle.

In addition, the submarine according to the invention can be provided with several functional and technical interfaces between the individual inserts and the submarine. Thus, for example, the advantage that lead-through holes for electrical energy, electrical control signals, communications, water pressure, water or gas, compressed air, oxygen, nitrogen or respiratory air, etc., are provided through the wall of the lock internal pressure line. have.

In addition, it can be seen that the effects of the various inventions are described above.

1 is a schematic view of a submarine with vertically arranged locks cut longitudinally;
FIG. 2 is a schematic perspective view of a first insert for coupling into a lock breakout angle; FIG.
FIG. 3 is a schematic perspective view of a second insert for engaging into a lock breakout angle; FIG.
FIG. 4 is a schematic perspective view of a third insert for engaging into the lock withstand voltage line. FIG.

Hereinafter, the present invention will be described in more detail with reference to the embodiments shown in the drawings.

The submarine shown in FIG. 1 includes an internal pressure hull 2 surrounded by an upper deck 12 in the upper region. The lock 8 penetrates the internal pressure line angle 2 in the vertical direction in a predetermined region on the stern side of the tower 6 of the submarine. The lock 8 includes a lock internal pressure line angle 10 extending from the lock passage disposed directly below the upper deck 12 to the lock passage disposed in the keel region. The internal pressure design of the lock internal pressure line angle 10 corresponds to that of the internal pressure line angle 2 of the submarine. The lock passage arranged directly below the upper deck 12 is closed by the rotatable cover 14, while the rotatable cover 16 is provided for pivoting the keel side lock passage.

The lock internal pressure hull 10 is directly connected to the keel-side lock passage from the lock internal pressure hull 18 via a shoulder 20 and serves to carry the underwater barrier weapons out of the submarine 22 Gradually tapered to). Therefore, the internal cross section of the lock internal pressure line portion 22 is basically adapted to the cross sectional dimension of the underwater barrier weapons to be transported to the outside.

A first insert 24 is shown in FIG. 2 for engaging into the lock internal pressure line 10 of the submarine. The first insert 24 is designed to carry the underwater barrier weapons in the form of mine 26 to the outside via the lock internal pressure hull 18. The insert 24 has an annular substrate 28 seated on the shoulder 20 formed at the lock breakdown line 10 when the insert 24 is mounted in the lock breakdown line 10. The substrate 28 includes a circular passage whose inner cross section coincides with the inner cross section of the lock breakdown line portion 22 and is immersed together in water.

The hollow cylindrical carrying shaft 30 extends in the plane of the substrate 28 in a direction away from the shoulder 20 at the position where the insert 24 is mounted in the lock breakdown line angle 10, and the longitudinal beam 32. Typically extends perpendicular to the plane in the direction away from the shoulder 20. The conveyance shaft 30 is disposed coaxially to the substrate 28 and extends to the lock breakdown line portion 22 when the insert 24 is mounted in the lock breakout line 10. Form a common passage. The vertical beam 32 is disposed in the outer peripheral region of the substrate 28. The carrying shaft 30 and the longitudinal beam 32 are connected to each other via the transverse beam 34 at the ends of the carrying shaft 30 and the longitudinal beam 32 away from the substrate 28. The substrate 28, the transport shaft 30, the longitudinal beams 32 as well as the transverse beams 34 together form the support frame of the insert 24.

Three bearing elements 36 are arranged sequentially from the substrate 28 at constant intervals in the longitudinal direction of the carrying shaft 30 and surrounding the carrying shaft 30. These bearing elements 36 each contribute to installing the rotary device 38. Each rotating device 38 is provided with a rotating plate 40 that can rotate around the conveyance shaft 30. Rotational movement of the rotor plates 40 is achieved by a motor 42 disposed at the end of the transport shaft 30 spaced apart from the substrate 28. The mines 26 are mounted in semi-shell storage containers 44 essentially on top of the annularly designed rotating plates 40, with several storage containers 44 being placed on each rotating plate 40. Along the edge of the field 40 is arranged keeping a constant distance from each other.

The storage containers 44 are mounted so as to intersect in their longitudinal direction via joints 46 arranged in the inner peripheral area of the rotating plates 40. All storage containers 44 include projections 48 that radially project outward with respect to the transport shaft 30 on the side away from the transport shaft 30. If the storage container 44 is in a position between the transport shaft 30 and the longitudinal beams 32, together with each rotating device 38, of the piston-cylinder arrangement 50 disposed on the longitudinal beams 32. The extending position is supported on the lower side of the protrusion 48 facing each rotating plate 40. By extension of the piston of the piston-cylinder arrangement 50, the corresponding storage container 44 is pivoted relative to the joint 46 in the direction of the conveying shaft 30, which is a mine 26 stored in this storage container 44. ) Is inclined to the transport shaft 30 through the passage 52 formed in the circumferential wall of the transport shaft 30, and then falls by weight out of the submarine through the lock internal pressure line 18.

The second insert 54 for coupling in the lock internal pressure line 10 of the submarine, shown in FIG. 3, serves to carry the unmanned submersible 56 out of the submarine. Similar to the insert 24, the insert 54 is provided with an annular substrate 28. With the installation of the insert 54 into the lock withstand voltage angle 10, the substrate 28 is mounted from the mounting position to the shoulder 20 of the withstand voltage withstand angle 10 for shockproof mounting of the insert 54. It is supported on the shoulder 20 of the lock break resistance line 10 via spring buffer members 58 disposed on the plane of the facing substrate 28.

Several longitudinal beams 60 arranged at the outer edge of the substrate 28 typically extend perpendicular to the plane of the substrate 28 opposite the spring buffer member 58. These longitudinal beams 60 are surrounded by three ring elements 62 which surround the longitudinal beams 60 from the outside. The substrate 28, the longitudinal beam 60 and the ring elements 62 together form a self supporting frame of the insert 54.

Apart from the longitudinal beams 60, two guide rails 64 arranged parallel to the longitudinal beams 60 are likewise arranged on the outer edge of the substrate 28. These guide rails 64 are provided to guide the storage shelf 66 for the submersible 56 and can extend out of the insert 54 in the longitudinal direction of the insert 54. In FIG. 3, the storage shelf 66 is shown in two different arrangement positions, namely the storage position in the insert 54 and the starting position of the submersible 56 outside of the insert 54. As can be seen from FIG. 3, the storage shelf 66 is in the storage position, ie from the position where the longitudinal axis of the submersible 56 is essentially arranged in the longitudinal direction of the insert 54. The starting position outside of, i.e., the position in which the longitudinal axis of the submersible 56 is arranged essentially perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the insert 54 is rotatable.

The insert 68 shown in FIG. 4 forms a space for the diver's mission. The insert 68 comprises a self supporting frame similar to the insert 54 and includes three ring elements surrounding the substrate portion 70, the longitudinal beams 72 arranged thereon and the longitudinal beams 72 outside. Are composed of 74. The substrate portion of the insert 68 is supported on a number of spring buffer members 58 to prevent loading impact.

A ladder 76 arranged parallel to the longitudinal beams 72 and basically extending over the entire length of the insert 68 is disposed in the space surrounded by the longitudinal beams 72 at its outer edge. This ladder 76 is connected to three inhabitable room planes which are arranged overlapping each other in the insert 68 and are formed of flat plates 78 or gratings 78. Each plate 78 or grid 78 in the area of the ladder 76 extends from the outer edge toward the center of each plate / lattice 78 and approaches each inhabitable room plane for divers to move up and down. It includes a groove 80 forming a passage. Several seating devices 82 for divers during submersion or drainage of the lock internal pressure line 10 lie on habitable room planes. Each habitable room plane has a connection with a breathing air system 84. A storage space 86 for loading divers' items is formed below the lowest habitable room plane.

2: withstand angle 6: tower
8: Lock 10: Internal pressure lock angle
12: upper deck 14: cover
16: Cover 18: Locking breakdown wire
20: shoulder 22: lock breakdown voltage
24: insert 26: mines
28: substrate 30: carrier shaft
32: vertical beam 34: horizontal beam
36: bearing element 38: rotating device
40: rotary table 42: motor
44: storage container 46: joint
48: protrusion 50: piston-cylinder arrangement
52: passage 54: insert
56: underwater device 58: spring damping element
60: longitudinal beams 62: ring element
64: guide rail 66: storage shelf
68: insert 70: substrate portion
72: longitudinal beam 74: ring element
76: ladder 78: flat plate, grating
80: groove 82: sheet device
84: breathing air system 86: storage space

Claims (13)

In a submarine with a pressure hull angle 2, which is arranged vertically and at least partially penetrates the pressure hull angle 2 and is formed with at least one lock 8 with an upper-deck side lock passage.
The lock 8 comprises a lock breakout angle 10 and an insert 24, 54, 68 which can be coupled within the lock breakout angle, which inserts 24, 54, 68 have a number of different inserts. Submarine which can be selected according to operation from (24, 54, 68). 2. Submarine according to claim 1, characterized in that the inserts (24, 54, 68) have their own supporting frames so as to be self-supporting within the lock internal pressure line angle. 3. Submarine according to claim 1 or 2, characterized in that the inserts (24, 54, 68) comprise shock-proof mounting means in the lock withstand voltage angle (10). 3. The insert (24), (54) and (68) of claim 1 or 2, wherein the inserts (24, 54, 68) comprise connections for connection to an electrical and / or hydraulic, gas-guided conduit system disposed outside the lock breakout line (10). Submarine characterized in that. 3. Submarine according to claim 1 or 2, characterized in that the inserts (24, 54, 68) comprise connections for connection to a hydraulic system arranged outside the lock breakout line (10). 3. Submarine according to claim 1 or 2, characterized in that the lock internal pressure hull (10) extends essentially over the entire internal hull angle (2) and comprises a second lock passage on the keel side. 3. Submarine according to claim 1 or 2, characterized in that the insert (24) is designed for storing and transporting underwater barrier weapons. 8. Submarine according to claim 7, characterized in that the insert (24) comprises a carrying shaft for discharging the underwater barrier weapons, connected to the keel-side lock passage. 9. Submarine according to claim 8, characterized in that the insert (24) comprises at least one rotating device (38) for storing and discharging underwater barrier weapons. 10. Submarine according to claim 8 or 9, characterized in that the insert (24) comprises several rotary devices (38) arranged so as to overlap one another in the longitudinal direction of the insert (24). Submarine according to claim 10, characterized in that at least one rotating device (38) is arranged around the transport shaft (30) for discharging the underwater barrier weapons. 11. Submarine according to claim 10, characterized in that the at least one rotating device (38) comprises several storage containers (44) for storing one underwater barrier weapon. 13. Submarine according to claim 12, characterized in that the storage containers (44) are rotatable in the direction of the transport shaft (30), preferably by a hydraulic method.

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