RU2582589C1 - Evacuation device for rescue of people from emergency ship - Google Patents

Abstract

FIELD: rescue equipment.

SUBSTANCE: invention relates to rescue equipment and can be used for people evacuation from sea vessels and floating objects in emergency conditions. Evacuation device for rescue of people from emergency ship comprises container (2) and flexible section-slope (5) with compartment refuge (12) forming rescue capsule (18). Container (2) is tied to room of ship (1), has outer cover (3) and ability to store capsule (18). Compartment-slope (5) includes pipe (6), inflatable toroidal chamber (7), flexible coupling elements (8). Chambers (7) are connected to each other by means of elements (8) and form external shell. In compartment-slope (5) there is halyard (9) made with fasteners and passed through pipe (6). Compartment-slope (5) comprises membrane (10) with unit of separation, installed at inlet. Compartment-shelter (12) includes rescue inflatable raft (13) with canopy (14) and has sealed unit (15) of connection of raft (13) and tent (14). Flexible compartment-slope (5) and compartment-shelter (12) are made of incombustible material. In container (2), in compartment-slope (5) and compartment-shelter (12) are located cylinders with gas filling tubes (4, 11, 17).

EFFECT: higher reliability, safety and buoyancy of evacuation device, faster operation for evacuation.

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Description

The invention relates to the field of rescue equipment, and in particular to devices for evacuating people from ships and floating objects in emergency conditions.

A water-saving device for saving people in emergencies is known, containing a besieging structure made of solid material in the form of a bottom and a side wall, slings designed to connect the upper part of the side wall with the external suspension of the davit, and a frame fixed to the bottom with a protective roof, while the frame is made in the form of hermetically closed pipes filled with compressed air, the bottom is made in the form of an inflatable raft, also filled with compressed air (RU No. 143880 U1, B63C 9/00, 08/10/2014; RU No. 143882 U1, B63C 9/02, 10.08. 2014).

A well-known underwater rescue complex with embedded multifunctional capsules related to rescue people from sunken submarines and surface vessels, installed in the hull of a submarine and surface vessel, which provides rescue of people in a "dry way", containing capsule modules with several multifunctional enclosed capsules (RU No. 2474511 C1, B63C 9/00, 02/10/2013).

A well-known universal surface rescue complex for rescuing the personnel of an emergency submarine in the surface position, consisting of airtight containers with rafts placed in them (RU No. 2436704 C2, B63C 9/02, 12/20/2011).

There is a known method of deploying a universal surface rescue complex for rescue personnel of an emergency submarine, including durable containers located on board the submarine and providing storage and use of liferafts for their intended purpose, which are held by files with a length that ensures the raft is moved to the “dry” position landing personnel (RU No. 2467915 C2, B63C 9/02, 11/27/2012).

Known rescue capsule containing a sealed enclosure with a hatch in the upper part, consisting of lower, middle and upper parts hermetically connected to each other, the middle part is made of elastic material (RU No. 2317916 C1, B63C 9/00, B63C 9/06 02/27/2008).

Known collective ship rescue equipment containing a sealed capsule fixed inside the vessel with the possibility of separation when the latter is flooded, while the capsule is made with means for supporting human life, having ballast tanks in the lower part (RU No. 2282554 C2, B63C 9/02, 27.08. 2006).

Known rescue equipment have an individual design.

Known marine evacuation system (MES) of the Danish company Viking Life Saving Equipment (Sudostroenie magazine, 2014, No. 4, pp. 52-53), installed on the Prirazlomnaya marine ice-resistant stationary platform (MLSP) and consisting of sleeves in a frame connected to an accumulative inflatable open area to which inflatable rafts are moored. In this case, a person enters the raft in three stages: it is necessary to go down the sleeve, to be in the accumulation area for some time, and then go to the raft. This operation is too complicated even in comfortable conditions when the ship does not swing. On a wave, tearing of the mooring ends is possible. At the request of international conventions and classification societies, evacuation from cargo ships takes 10 minutes, from passenger 30 minutes, roll no more than 20 °, trim no more than 10 °. This company has a kind of MES “VIKING Evacuation Chute”, where the ramp pipe is inserted directly into the raft (, “Product Guide Edition”, 1/2013). A bundle of two or three containers is discharged into the water and inflated, and at the same time a slope tube unfolds, one end of which is fixed to the vessel. The disadvantage of this MES is that when using it, it becomes necessary to find a person in the raft (s) in order to secure life rafts at the side of the vessel, and at the first moment, when opening the system, there are no people in the rafts. The slope pipe does not have buoyancy and does not have elements damping impacts on the structure of the vessel.

A device is known for evacuating people from an emergency vessel, comprising a pipe made of elastic material, provided with an outer shell made of inflatable toroidal chambers connected to each other, a halyard made with a fastener and passed through the pipe, an inflatable liferaft with a tent, balloons with tubes gas filling (RU No. 2043252 C1, B63B 27/28, 09/10/1995).

This technical solution is made as the closest analogue of the present invention.

The device of the closest analogue consists of two independent devices, the pipe itself and the raft itself. The pipe and raft are brought into working condition and docked on the deck, and then lowered overboard. It takes time to complete these operations and find a place to deploy. The use of the device depends on the roll of the vessel, since the raft is lowered using its own crane beam. Ship crane cranes have a roll limit during operation. In addition, the node connecting the pipe and raft is subject to rupture of the halyards on a wave.

The present invention is based on the solution of the problem, which allows to increase the reliability, safety and buoyancy of the device, accelerate the evacuation operations.

The technical result of the present invention is to enable the capsule to be deployed from the ship’s premises, protected from wind and waves, and to be able to leave the ship when the ship is submerged at sea, regardless of the angle of heel and trim of the ship, due to the presence of a container embedded in the ship , and due to the capsule formed by the slope compartment and the shelter compartment, in ensuring the reliability of keeping the capsule afloat and protecting people from impacts on the side of the vessel and from any external influences due to the formation of outside the shell of the compartment-ramp when connecting its toroidal chambers with flexible connecting elements and due to the implementation of the compartment-ramp with a membrane and the refuge compartment with a sealed node at the entrance when connecting it with a flexible compartment-ramp in a single design.

According to the invention, this problem is solved due to the fact that the evacuation device for saving people from an emergency vessel contains a pipe made of elastic material, equipped with an outer shell made of inflatable toroidal chambers connected to each other, a halyard made with an attachment element and passed through the pipe, liferaft inflatable raft with awning, cylinders with gas filling tubes.

The evacuation device contains a container embedded in the ship’s premises and made with an outer cover with a node for opening.

The evacuation device contains a flexible slope compartment.

Flexible slope compartment made of non-combustible material.

The flexible slope compartment includes a pipe, the inflatable toroidal chambers of which are connected to each other by means of flexible connecting elements forming an outer shell with the toroidal chambers.

The flexible compartment-slope contains a membrane with a separation unit installed at the inlet and having the ability to hermetically seize the inlet.

The evacuation device contains a shelter compartment.

The shelter compartment is made of non-combustible material.

The shelter compartment includes an inflatable liferaft with an awning.

The shelter compartment contains a sealed node connecting the raft and awning.

The shelter compartment is equipped with a sealed inlet assembly for connection with a flexible slope compartment in a single design.

A single design forms a rescue capsule.

In this case, the container is configured to store the rescue capsule.

At the same time, cylinders with gas filling tubes are located in the container and in the capsule.

In the capsule, cylinders with gas filling tubes are located in the slope compartment and the refuge compartment, respectively.

The applicant has not identified sources containing information about technical solutions identical to the present invention, which allows us to conclude that it meets the criterion of "novelty."

Due to the implementation of the distinguishing features of the invention (in conjunction with the features indicated in the restrictive part of the formula), important new properties of the object are achieved.

The presence of a container embedded in the vessel’s premises, made with an external lid with a knot for opening and with the possibility of storing the rescue capsule, increases reliability, safety and speeds up the evacuation operation.

The presence in the flexible compartment of the slope of the pipe with inflatable toroidal chambers connected to each other by means of flexible connecting elements, and a membrane with a separation unit and with the possibility of hermetically sealed entry increases the reliability and safety of the device.

The formation of the outer shell in a flexible compartment-slope when connecting inflatable toroidal chambers with flexible connecting elements increases the buoyancy of the device.

The presence in the refuge compartment of a life-saving inflatable raft with an awning and an airtight junction of the raft and awning increases the reliability and safety of the device.

The implementation of the rescue inflatable raft with a sealed assembly at the entrance for connection with a flexible compartment-slope in a single design, forming a rescue capsule, increases the reliability, safety and buoyancy of the device, speeds up evacuation operations.

The implementation of the flexible compartment slope and the shelter compartment of non-combustible material increases the safety of the device.

The presence in the container and the rescue capsule of cylinders with gas filling tubes ensures the buoyancy of the device.

The applicant is not aware of any publications that would contain information on the influence of the distinguishing features of the invention on the achieved technical result. In this regard, according to the applicant, it can be concluded that the claimed technical solution meets the criterion of "inventive step".

The invention is illustrated by drawings, which depict:

in FIG. 1 - Evacuation device for saving people from an emergency vessel, general view;

in FIG. 2 - Section AA in FIG. one.

The evacuation device for rescuing people from an emergency vessel contains:

Vessel - 1, container (in vessel 1) - 2, outer cover with an assembly for opening (container 2) - 3, cylinders with gas pipes (in container 2) - 4, compartment-ramp from elastic material - 5, pipe ( compartment-slope 5) - 6, toroidal chambers (tubes 6) - 7, flexible connecting elements (chambers 7) - 8, halyard (in compartment-slope 5) - 9, a membrane with a separation unit (at the entrance to compartment-slope 5 ) - 10, cylinders with gas filling tubes (in the slope compartment 5) - 11, the refuge compartment - 12, the liferaft inflatable raft (in the refuge compartment 12) - 13, the tent (raft 13) - 14, the sealed connection unit (raft 13 and awning 14) - 15, a sealed unit at the entrance (for connecting the shelter compartment 12 with the ramp compartment 5) - 16, cylinders with gas filling tubes (in the shelter compartment 12) - 17, the rescue capsule (ramp compartment 5 and the compartment - shelter 12) - 18.

The evacuation device for rescuing people from an emergency vessel contains a container 2 and a flexible slope compartment 5 with a shelter compartment 12, forming a rescue capsule 18.

Container 2 is embedded in the vessel 1.

The container 2 is made with an outer cover 3 with a node for opening.

Flexible compartment-slope 5 includes a pipe 6, inflatable toroidal chambers 7, flexible connecting elements 8.

Inflatable toroidal chambers 7 are connected to each other by means of flexible connecting elements 8 and form an outer shell.

In the flexible compartment-slope 5 posted halyard 9, made with fasteners and passed through the pipe 6.

The flexible compartment-slope 5 contains a membrane 10 with a separation unit installed at the inlet and having the ability to hermetically seize the entrance.

In the flexible compartment-slope 5 installed cylinders with gas pipes 11.

Flexible compartment-slope 5 is made of non-combustible material.

Shelter compartment 12 includes a liferaft inflatable raft 13 with an awning 14 and contains a sealed assembly 15 connecting the raft 13 and the awning 14.

Shelter compartment 12 is equipped with a sealed unit 16 at the entrance.

In the refuge compartment 12, cylinders with gas filling tubes 17 are installed.

Shelter compartment 12 is made of non-combustible material.

The shelter compartment 12 is connected to the flexible slope compartment 5 in a single structure.

A single design forms a rescue capsule 18.

The container 2 is arranged to store the rescue capsule 18.

The device operates as follows.

The rescue capsule 18 on board the vessel 1 is stored in a container 2, which is cut into the premises of the vessel 1. In the event of an accident, passengers (crew), without going to the open part of the vessel 1, activate cylinders with gas filling tubes 4, 11, 17, and this triggers mechanism for opening the outer cover 3 of the container 2.

Gas from cylinders with gas filling tubes 11 and 17 fills the inflatable toroidal chambers 7 of the flexible ramp compartment 5 and the inflatable elements of the refuge compartment 12, respectively.

The rescue capsule 18 is filled with gas and fully opens, while the shelter compartment 12 is located on board the emergency vessel 1.

The container 2 has access to enter the rescue capsule 18, both from the outside, thanks to the outer cover 3, and from the inside of the room, which provides a high probability of rescue from ships that received an emergency roll, and from overturned ships.

One at a time, holding onto the halyard 9, through the pipe 6 of the flexible slope compartment 5, penetrate into the shelter compartment 12. The last person closes the membrane 10 and activates the disconnection mechanism, so the rescue capsule 18 remains completely after separation from the emergency object airtight. People in the rescue capsule 18 are dry and without injury. Further, they act according to the standard emergency rescue instructions for ships.

The proposed device can be used for the safe evacuation of people from one floating object to another under adverse weather conditions.

The proposed device, made of non-combustible material, can be used during rescue operations during fires at offshore and coastal facilities.

The proposed device provides a “dry” and without injuries, the descent of people into the liferaft, which meets the requirements of the 1983 amendments to the International Convention SOLAS 74.

The proposed device for rescuing people from an emergency ship used equipment that is widely used as a means of evacuating people from sea vessels and floating objects in emergency conditions, and the experimental design studies determine, according to the applicant, that his criterion is “industrial applicability”.

A device for rescuing people from an emergency ship allows you to:

- increase the reliability of the device;

- increase the security of the device;

- increase the buoyancy of the device;

- expedite evacuation operations.

Claims (1)

An evacuation device for rescuing people from an emergency vessel, containing a pipe made of elastic material, equipped with an outer shell made of inflatable toroidal chambers connected to each other, a halyard made with a fastener and passed through the pipe, a liferaft inflatable raft with an awning, balloons with tubes gas filling, characterized in that the device comprises a container embedded in the ship’s premises and made with an outer cover with a knot for opening, a flexible slope compartment made of non-combustible material, comprising a pipe, the inflatable toroidal chambers of which are connected to each other by means of flexible connecting elements forming an outer shell with the toroidal chambers, and containing a membrane with a separation unit installed at the inlet and having the ability to hermetically seal the entrance, and a refuge compartment made of non-combustible material, including a liferaft inflatable raft with an awning, containing a sealed unit for connecting the raft and awning, equipped with a sealed unit at the inlet for connecting with a flexible slope compartment w structure defining a rescue capsule, wherein the container is adapted to store a rescue capsule, and cylinders with gas filling tubes are arranged in the container and the capsule, respectively, in its ramp-compartment and compartment refuge.

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