RU2811848C1 - Means for indicating a sunken object - Google Patents

Abstract

FIELD: detection means.

SUBSTANCE: means for indicating a sunken object. The means for indicating a sunken object contains a housing with an opening for water inlet, a hydrostat, an ejector spring and a battery-piston, configured to interact in series. There is also a float device with a replaceable unit of a personal emergency beacon in a container and a light-signal device, a cable connecting the piston battery with a personal emergency beacon in a container and a light-signal device. The piston battery pushes out the cable with the float, the personal emergency beacon unit in the container and the light-signal device from the body of the device, while contacting the mechanical contactor. The body of the product is equipped with removable tear-off eyelets to facilitate the release of the product from the object. There is also a magnet for attaching the body of the device to the surface of an object and an additional magnet in case of attachment to a non-magnetic surface of the object.

EFFECT: increasing the likelihood of detecting sunken objects.

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Description

The invention relates to means for marking a sunken object. There are numerous cases of flooding when armored vehicles, for example, BTR-80, were dropped from the sea, when the vehicles with their crew sank and their subsequent search was difficult. These types of equipment are equipped with a tethered buoy, but it is difficult to detect in rough conditions, and it does not transmit the coordinates of its location.

The closest analogue of the invention is the utility model Float buoy for marking the location of sunken armored vehicles in water [1], containing a housing filled with foam plastic, a sealed cylindrical shell with a lid, a telephone connector with a wire for communication with the crew, a radio transmitter, a disconnecting device, a warning light, antenna, holding system in the form of a flexible kinematic connection with the body with the possibility of self-twisting when the buoy exits, jet engine, multivibrator. However, this utility model has a redundant design.

When designing ships and vessels, special attention is paid to the development of emergency rescue devices to provide assistance to an emergency ship (vessel). These devices include means of communication and transmission of signals from the emergency ship (vessel): an emergency signal buoy with a telephone, emergency buoys and an emergency alarm system.

The emergency signal buoy is a hollow float of positive buoyancy, equipped with a signal lamp, telephone and radio station. The prototype of the invention is a radio buoy of the T-616 SRT type, which is thrown to the surface through a device for firing imitation cartridges. A folding whip antenna is mounted in the upper part of the buoy, which, after the buoy ascends under the action of a spring, straightens, and the transmitter mounted in the buoy begins to transmit coded distress signals at a wave of 1.43 m for 14 hours [2]. The disadvantages of the prototype are its large dimensions, which do not allow it to be placed on a floating BTR-80 or small craft, and its complex design.

The objective of the present invention is to create a means that serves to indicate the location of a sunken example of a floating armored vehicle or other small craft by transmitting information about its location in the water via satellite communication systems and visually: by turning on/off the pop-up warning light and the presence of a warning block on it distinctive contrasting color.

The design of the means for marking a sunken object is shown in Fig. 1, showing the vehicle in the stowed position, and FIG. 2 showing a means with an alert unit issued. Numbers in Fig. 1, 2, marked: 1 - body; 2 - magnet for attaching to the body of the object; 3 - additional magnet for attachment to a non-magnetic surface; 4 - removable stall eyes; 5 - hydrostat with cut-off valve; 6 - spring release; 7 - ejector spring; 8 - battery-piston; 9 - hole for water to enter the hydrostat; 10 - cable; 11 - float device; 12 - replaceable unit of personal emergency radio beacon in a container; 13 - light-signal device; 14 - mechanical contactor. The body of the device 1 is provided with removable tear-off eyes 4 to facilitate the release of the product from the object.

Structurally, the means of indicating a sunken object is made in the form of a buoy, which, before the start of operation of a sample of armored vehicles or other small watercraft, is installed on the object in the stowed position (Fig. 1). On a small craft that does not have magnetic surfaces, the device is attached to the body of the object using an additional magnet 3 (Fig. 3). On armored vehicles or watercraft with magnetic surfaces, the device is attached with a magnet 2 to the body of the object in the area of the engine or magnetic surface (Fig. 4). Additionally, by numbers in Fig. 3, 4 are indicated: 15 - non-magnetic surface of the object, 16 - magnetic surface of the object.

During operation, when an object is immersed under water, water begins to flow into the hole 9 on the body of the device 1, falling on the membrane of the hydrostat 5, which at a depth of 2 m is activated and releases the spring release 6. As a result, the ejector spring 7 pushes the battery-piston 8, pushing cable 10 out of the housing, float device 11; a personal emergency beacon unit in container 12 and a light-signal device 13. In this case, the piston battery, in contact with the mechanical contactor 14, is put into operation.

Once outside the housing, the personal emergency beacon unit in container 12 and the light-signaling device 13 float to the surface, gradually unwinding the cable 10. The body of the device with the activated hydrostat, ejector spring and battery-piston is held against the submerged object by a magnet. Power is supplied via a cable from the piston battery to the personal emergency radio beacon in the container and the lighting device.

After the warning unit floats to the surface, the personal emergency radio beacon is activated. Information about the location of the sunken object is transmitted via a satellite communication system (depending on the type of unit installed in container 12) and visually: by turning on and off the light signal device of the pop-up warning unit and the presence of a distinctive contrasting color on it.

The inventive means of marking a sunken object has a simple and universal design, small weight and size characteristics and can be installed on any vessel, including a non-magnetic one.

The use of the invention will increase the likelihood of detecting sunken samples of amphibious armored vehicles or other small watercraft and significantly reduce the time of their search.

Literature:

1. Patent No. 151401. Utility model. Float buoy to indicate the location of sunken armored vehicles in the water: No. 2014102518/11: application. 01/27/2014; publ. 04/10/2015 / Yu.A. Vorobyov, D.V. Levin; patent holder FGKVUVPO VA MTO im. Army General A.V. Khruleva.

2. Soloviev, V.I. Communication at sea / V.I. Soloviev, L.I. Nosik, I.D. Morozov. Leningrad: Shipbuilding, 1978, 320 p.

Claims (1)

A means for indicating a sunken object, characterized by the fact that it contains a body of the means with an opening for water inlet, with a hydrostat, an ejector spring and a battery-piston, configured for sequential interaction, a float device with a replaceable unit of a personal emergency radio beacon in a container and a light-signaling device, a cable connecting the piston battery with the personal emergency beacon in the container and the light-signal device, wherein the piston battery is configured to push out the cable with the float device, the personal emergency beacon unit in the container and the light-signal device from the body of the device, while contacting the mechanical contactor , on the body of the device there are removable tear-off eyes to facilitate the release of the device from the object; there is also a magnet for attaching the body of the device to the surface of the object and an additional magnet in the case of attachment to a non-magnetic surface of the object.