US1413603A

US1413603A - Floating dock

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Publication number: US1413603A
Application number: US509768A
Authority: US
Inventors: Muller Max
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1921-10-22
Filing date: 1921-10-22
Publication date: 1922-04-25
Anticipated expiration: 1939-04-25

Description

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APPLICATION FILED 0CT.22, 1 921. l

1,413,603. I Pafnted Apr. 25,A vl1922.

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To all/whom t may concern: Be it known .that I, MAX MLLER, a citi- Zen of Germany, residing at Hamburg, Ger-v f for docking vessels wherever there is a waterlevel of sufficient height. Vhen free from the water ballast they can be put, also with a vessel therein, alongside a quay-wall, crane,

and the like, even if there is existing but a low height of water. In opposition to these advantages is the drawback that the vessels to be docked must be brought in and out lengthwise, which necessitates a considerable clear space or water area in front and in the rear of the dock.

Docks of the off shore type -which have an L-shaped sectional elevation, permit the vessels to be brought in and out sideways. Such docks are therefore available for wharfs or dock-yards which possess but a restricted front-line facing the water. This advantage, however, is best obtained either by guiding such docks from the shore by parallel-motion links whereby the said docks become stationary and disproportionately expensive, or by connecting them by a parallel-motion device to a separate lateral auxiliary pontoon wherefrom results a loss or sacrifice of a great lateral clear area of the harbour.

The object of the present improvements is to produce a floating dock which combines the advantages of the above mentioned docks, but avoids at the same time their drawbacks.

For this purpose the invention mainly consists in constructing only one of the two side f pontoons of a floating dock throughout itsv length with aside wall of suitable height, and in furnishing the other side pontoon but with sidewall sections arranged some distance apart, preferably placedy at the ends ofthis pontoon, in order to leave between them a gap or passage through which the vessel can be floated in and out sideways.

One may also imagine the Said side wall sections as a result from notching orY recessing to the desired or required depth and length a completeside wall of a U-shaped floating dock.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented App, `Application filed October 22, 1921.: ,Seral No. 509,768. 1 -V A further featurev of the invention fconsists in properly dimensioning the-breadth of the said side wall sections or the remaining tower-like end parts of the notched `or re'- cessed side wall iny order that these end sections ensurein cooperation with the bottom compartments the necessary stability of the weighted floating dock at any draught.

In order that the invention may be more fully understood by one skilled in the art to which it appertains, the same is now to be de-A scribed in detail with reference to the accompanying sheet of drawings whereon is j represented in a diagrammatic manner, as an example, an embodimentof the improved floating dock, Figure l being a plan view and Figure 2 elevation on the line I-I of Fig. l'.

y Similar letters o-f reference refertosimilar parts'throughout the several views.

The floating dock comprises a left hand side rpontoon a carrying a side wall al, a right hand side pontoon having a side wall b1, if any, and a; bottom pontoon b1 are erected up to the height of the wall a? .tower-like structures 0l and e forming each a continuation of the side wallipontoont b1 and in communication therewith.

The vcross-sectional' area of the towersid a perspective cross-sectional Y subdivided by longitudinal bulk-heads c1 inand e is so dimensioned that the said towers j ensure in cooperation with the longitudinal compartments of the bottom pontoon a sufficient stability of the weighted floating dock at any draught. n

VThe vessels to be brought in and outy through the gap or lindentation between that in accordance .with the respective der an oblique angle. l

the towers d and e, and' docked and undocked are ,I

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ylength of the vessels either sideways or uny' 'As manychanges might be made in the.

construction and relative arrangement of the different parts Without involving a departure from the spirit of Vmy invention, I

would have it understood that I do not limit.

myself to the exact description shown and described, but consider myself at liberty to make such changes and alterations as fall withinthe scope of my invention.

I claim:

l. A floating dock having in one of its otherwise substantially equally highk longitu'dinal Walls a gap of relatively large extent for the passage of a vessel in more or less broadside-on manner.

2. A floating` dockeomprising a bottom pontoon and two side pontoons, one of the latter being provided throughout its length with a complete side Wall-and the other furnished with side Wall sections set some distance apart to form between them a gap or passage for the vessel to bev docked o1' undocked.

3. A floating doek Comprising, a bottom pontoon subdivided into compartments by bulkheads, a side pontoon having throughout its length a complete side Wall of suitable-height, and a, second side pontoon provided at each end with a side tower of corre sponding height.

4L. A floating doek comprising a bottom pontoon with compartments, a side pontoon With a completeside Wall thereon and a seeond side pontoon carrying a discontinued side Wall, the remaining sections of this latter being of a volume to ensure in cooperation with the bottom compartments the stability o the floating doek at any draft.

ln testimony whereof I affix my signature.

e MAX MLLER.