US1182400A - Buffer for ships. - Google Patents

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A. MONTANARI.

BUFFER FOR SHIPS.

APPLICATION FILED AUG-25, 1915.

1, 182,400. Patented May 9, 1916.

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A. MONTANAR}. BUFFER FOR SHIPS.

APPLICATION FILED AUG-25,1915.

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BUFFER FOR SHIPS.

APPLICATION FILED AUG-25,1915.

1 182,400, Patented May 9, 1916.

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ANGELO MONTANARI, 0F. PENSACOLA, FLORIDA.

BUFFER. FOR SHIPS.

Application filed. August 25, 1915. Serial No. 47,349.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ANGELO MoNTANARI, of Pensacola, in the county of Escambia and State of Florida, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Buffers for Ships; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

The object of my invention i to provide simple and improved means for attachment to a collier which will enable it to approach a battleship or other vessel and to be tied thereto without danger of damagingeither vessel, such means comprising a series of spring mattresses upon which are mounted outwardly-extending yielding bufiers' which carry buffer wheels which are designed to contact with the vessel to be coaled, each of such wheels having mounted in its periphery a series of rollers whose axes are transverse of the axis of the wheel, this arrange ment permitting of relative anti-frictional movements between the vessels in vertical and horizontal lines. i y

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a diagrammatic plan view of a ship and collier showing my improvement attached to one side of the latter. Fig. 2 is an .end

view of two vessels (parts being broken away) with a buffer between them. Fig. 3 is a face view of the supporting mattress. Fig. 1 is a plan view with the buffer wheels in section. Fig. 5 is an end View with parts in section. Fig. 6 is a detail showing the transversely arranged rollers on the buffer or contact wheel.

Referring to the drawings, 1 designates a battleship or other vessel to be coaled and 2 a collier. Secured to the latter on one side and in any preferred manner are a series of spring mattresses 3 of skeleton formation, each mattress comprising a base formed of channel irons 4, slightly curved at their Outer ends, and cross-bars 5, the latter being su'fliciently resilient to permit the base to ac-' commodate itself to the contour of the collier. The mattress also embodies an outer frame 6 having a series of bars 7 parallelling the channel irons 4, and cross members 8 at the ends of the bars 7 The base and outer frame are appropriately braced and have interposed between them a series of coiled springs 9 which surround the connecting bolts between the base and the outer frame.

Specification of Letters Patent.

the latter by countersunk screws.

Patented May 9, 1916.

spring-pressed plungers 13, each of which, at

its outer ends is provided with a pivoted bearing-box 1 1. Horizontally alined boxes support the'shaft 15 of a buffer wheel 16, one of the latter being placed between "each pairof plungers. In the periphery of each buffer wheel are a series of circumferentially arranged grooves 17 in which are mounted roller bearings 18, the axes of the latter being transverse to the axis of the wheel. The grooves have overhanging walls and are equipped with ball-bearings. Between each of the rollers 18 is a spacing friction roller 19. The rollers 18 may be inserted in the grooves in'any preferred manner, for'instance, a portion of one oflthe overhanging walls of each groove maybe cut away and provided with a filler 20,,the outerface of which is fiushwith the periphery of'the wheel, this filler being fastened to For the purpose of connecting the bnfiers to each other and to the collier I have shown straps 21 pivoted to the superposed frame-work on the mattress.

In operation, any required number of bufiers may be employed. Each is secured to the collier by cables attached to the pivoted straps 21. Both vessels are provided with the usual fore and aft line to prevent undue back and forth movement. Any relative bumping movement between the two vessels will be taken up by the plungers 13 and by the spring mattress. Should the approach of the two vessels be at an angle the wheels 16 will square themselves to the battleship, the pivoted bearings 14: permitting an independent or relative movement between the plungers which support the wheel without interfering with the rotary movement of the wheel. Friction between the two vessels is negligible, up and down motion being compensated for by the wheel 16 and anti-friction members mounted on the.

vessels to approach as closely as necessary, and permittting a conveyer to be placed crosswise of the two vessels, the close proximity of the latter also obviating the necessity of securing the conveyor to the battles 1 I claim as my invention:

1. A buffer for ships comprising a resilient base, shock absorbers, rotary contact members carried by said shock absorbers,

. ent base, shock absorbing plungers, rotary contact members, pivoted bearings therefor mounted on said plungers, and anti-friction membersmounted on the peripheries of said rotary members. 7

5. A buffer for ships comprising a resilient base, shock absorbing plungers, horizontally-arranged rotary contact members, pivfoted bearing boxes therefor mounted on 'Slld. plungers, and antl-frictlon members mounted inthe peripheries of said rotary members, the aXes of said anti-friction members being transverseto the axis of said rotary members.

6. A buffer for ships comprising a resilient base, spring-pressed plungers, pivoted bearings on said plungers, a contact wheel having its aXle mounted in said bearings and a series of circumferentially arranged rollers on the face of said wheels.

7. A buifer for ships comprising a resilient base, spring-pressed plungers, pivoted bearings on said plungers, a contact Wheel having its axle horizontally supported in said bearings, and a series of circumferentially arranged anti-friction rollers mounted on the face of said wheel.

8. A buffer for ships comprising a resilient base, spring-pressed plungers, pivoted bearings on said plungers, a contact wheel having its aXle horizontally supported in said bearings and a series of circumferentially arranged spaced-apart anti-friction rollers mounted on the face of said wheel, the axes of said rollers being transverse of the Wheel aXle,and bearings interposed between said rollers.

In testimony whereof, I have signed this specification in the presence of two subscribing Witnesess.

v ANGELO MONTANARI.

Witnesses V 1 W. A. BLOUNT, K. B. RADGLIFFE.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissionerof Patents,

Washington, D. G.

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