US3423777A - Buoy apparatus - Google Patents

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US3423777A
US3423777A US593458A US3423777DA US3423777A US 3423777 A US3423777 A US 3423777A US 593458 A US593458 A US 593458A US 3423777D A US3423777D A US 3423777DA US 3423777 A US3423777 A US 3423777A
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Anders Fred Feyling
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    • G—PHYSICS
    • G01—MEASURING; TESTING
    • G01C—MEASURING DISTANCES, LEVELS OR BEARINGS; SURVEYING; NAVIGATION; GYROSCOPIC INSTRUMENTS; PHOTOGRAMMETRY OR VIDEOGRAMMETRY
    • G01C13/00—Surveying specially adapted to open water, e.g. sea, lake, river or canal
    • G01C13/008—Surveying specially adapted to open water, e.g. sea, lake, river or canal measuring depth of open water
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B63—SHIPS OR OTHER WATERBORNE VESSELS; RELATED EQUIPMENT
    • B63B—SHIPS OR OTHER WATERBORNE VESSELS; EQUIPMENT FOR SHIPPING 
    • B63B22/00—Buoys
    • B63B22/18—Buoys having means to control attitude or position, e.g. reaction surfaces or tether
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G10—MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; ACOUSTICS
    • G10K—SOUND-PRODUCING DEVICES; METHODS OR DEVICES FOR PROTECTING AGAINST, OR FOR DAMPING, NOISE OR OTHER ACOUSTIC WAVES IN GENERAL; ACOUSTICS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • G10K11/00—Methods or devices for transmitting, conducting or directing sound in general; Methods or devices for protecting against, or for damping, noise or other acoustic waves in general
    • G10K11/004—Mounting transducers, e.g. provided with mechanical moving or orienting device
    • G10K11/006—Transducer mounting in underwater equipment, e.g. sonobuoys

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  • the present invention relates to buoy apparatus and is more particularly, though not exclusively, concerned with telemetering systems in which electrical signals are detected or produced underwater and are fed to a surface buoy for recording and/or transmitting, as by radio, to distant stations.
  • the underwater moored surface buoy is subject to various instabilities caused by wind, waves, subsurface currents and tides that may come from widely d'ififerent directions and in many combinations.
  • Such instability not only makes radio transmission unreliable, but, in addition, subjects the mooring line to kinking and fouling, and exerts undue strain upon any subsurface buoy from which anchored instruments and other apparatus depend.
  • An object of the present invention accordingly, is to provide a new and improved buoy apparatus that overcomes these disadvantages and others; and, to the contrary, is, in summary, substantially mechanically omnidirectional so that, when moored, it has a high degree of stability and low drag even with opposing combinations of wind, waves, tide and subsurface currents.
  • a further object is to provide a novel buoy system in which kinking, fouling and straining of the mooring is substantially eliminated.
  • An additional object is to provide a substantially strainfree mooring cable with electrical conductors that features high strength with no tendency to kinking and damage from strain, abrasion or fish bites.
  • FIG. 1 is a side elevation of a preferred embodiment, with sections partly broken away to show details of construction;
  • FIG. 2 is a view of a complete moored buoy system embodying the invention.
  • a closed buoy 1 is constructed, as of fiberglass or the like, in the form of substantially a downwardly convex hemisphere, the upper portion 1' of which comprises compartments of buoyant foam plastic or the like.
  • the lower portion is divided into substantially quadrant compartments 1 that are free-flooding through a bottom aperture 3 to provide ballast stabilization for the buoy.
  • a slot 5 is formed in the left-hand quadrant, as shown in FIG. 1, communicating with a conduit 7 within which a prferably planar mooring bar 9 may be pivoted at its inner end, as at one of the points P.
  • bar 9 extends along the slot 5 and externally beyond the outer buoy skin, terminating in a mooring ring 11.
  • a counterweight ballast 13 for adding self-righting stability, the water freely flooding into and out of the stabilizing compartments 1" between the counterweight 13 and the bottom of the buoy.
  • the electrical or other instruments are stored in watertight wells 4 loaded from the top and extending into the foam region 1, and the buoy may carry on its top a radio transmitting antenna 6 or any other signaling, sensing or related apparatus. Electrical connection to these instruments is eflected by insulation-covered conductors 8 that extend through a conduit 10 in the buoy, into the slot 5 and along the mooring bar 9 (where the conductors 8 are bent upward but restrained), further extending along the mooring line 2 to an underwater buoy 12 and to the instruments or other apparatus (not shown) depending therefrom and anchored at 14.
  • a plurality of apertured plastic or other floats 16 may be chain-connected to the buoy 12 as at 18, and the mooring line 2 (with its bound chain 2 and electrical conductors 8) passed thorugh other apertures inthe floats 16, being thus maintained almost vertically, with strain and shock taken up by slippage and buoyancy of the floats 16.
  • the line 2 may continue through the subsurface buoy 12 to the apparatus depended below.
  • a substantially stabilized closed surface buoy of substantially hemispherical contour having, in com-bination, an upper buoyant section, a lower free-flooding stabilizing section and a slot extending into a lower quadrant thereof and containing mooring bar means pivoted at one end to the buoy at a point within the said slot corresponding substantially to the center of gravity of the buoy, the other end of the mooring bar means extending externally to the buoy and having means for connecting the same to a mooring line, said buoy having counterweight means depended from the bottom thereof, said stabilizing section comprising substantialy quadrant compartments having a flooding opening at the base between the same and the counterweight means.
  • a substantially stabilized closed surface buoy of substantially hemispherical contour having, in combination, an upper buoyant section, a lower free-flooding stabilizing section and a slot extending into a lower quadrant thereof and containing mooring bar means pivoted at one end to the buoy at a point within the said slot corresponding substantially to the center of gravity of the buoy, the other end of the mooring bar means extending externally to the buoy and having means for connecting the same to a mooring line, said buoy having instrument Well means extending from the top thereof into the said upper section thereof, and conduit means for receiving electrical conductor means extending from the instrument well means through said slot and along the mooring line.
  • a substantially stabilized closed surface buoy of substantially hemispherical downwardly convex contour having, in combination, an upper buoyant section, a lower free-flooding stabilizing section of said convex contour with a flooding opening therein and a slot extending into a lower quadrant thereof, said slot containing mooring mar means pivoted at one end to the buoy at a point within the said slot corresponding substantially to the center of gravity of the buoy, the other end of the mooring bar means extending externally to the buoy and having means for connecting the same to a mooring line.
  • a buoy as claimed in claim 2 in which radio transmitting means is carried by the top of the buoy for transmitting information corresponding to the signals carried by the electrical conductor means to said instrument Well means.

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US3590408A (en) * 1968-03-01 1971-07-06 Datawell Nv Anchoring device for a floating buoy
US3766874A (en) * 1971-07-29 1973-10-23 Gen Dynamics Corp Moored barge for arctic offshore oil drilling
US3916467A (en) * 1974-11-07 1975-11-04 Jr Robert F Curd Fast water buoy
US4145783A (en) * 1977-08-18 1979-03-27 Rhodes Ronald J Water window
US4417831A (en) * 1980-04-30 1983-11-29 Brown & Root, Inc. Mooring and supporting apparatus and methods for a guyed marine structure
USRE32119E (en) * 1980-04-30 1986-04-22 Brown & Root, Inc. Mooring and supporting apparatus and methods for a guyed marine structure
DE9108370U1 (de) * 1991-07-02 1992-11-05 Stiftung Alfred-Wegener-Institut für Polar- und Meeresforschung, 2850 Bremerhaven Anordnung zur Verankerung von Meßgeräten in Wasserströmungen
US5364297A (en) * 1992-08-08 1994-11-15 Alfred-Wegener-Institut Fur Polar- Und Meeresforschung Mooring system for the stationary positioning of measurement devices in currents of water
US7244155B1 (en) 2006-08-21 2007-07-17 Cortland Cable Company, Inc. Mooring line for an oceanographic buoy system
US20100112879A1 (en) * 2007-04-02 2010-05-06 Rodrigo Baeza Ochoa De Ocariz Buoy for mooring and supplying services to pleasure craft
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US2079689A (en) * 1933-01-12 1937-05-11 Bell Telephone Labor Inc Repeating station for ocean cables
GB421660A (en) * 1933-07-21 1934-12-28 Wilfrid Leathes De Mussenden C Improvements in or relating to buoys
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US2891501A (en) * 1953-05-06 1959-06-23 Roy L Rather Articulated tow chain
GB889245A (en) * 1959-02-27 1962-02-14 Neill Garland Improvements in buoys
US3086491A (en) * 1961-07-05 1963-04-23 Commercial Engineering Corp Marine tow chain
US3295489A (en) * 1964-06-20 1967-01-03 Bossa Eduardo Plastic compound catenary for anchorage and pipeline and/or cable support in any sea zone and depth

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US3590408A (en) * 1968-03-01 1971-07-06 Datawell Nv Anchoring device for a floating buoy
US3766874A (en) * 1971-07-29 1973-10-23 Gen Dynamics Corp Moored barge for arctic offshore oil drilling
US3916467A (en) * 1974-11-07 1975-11-04 Jr Robert F Curd Fast water buoy
US4145783A (en) * 1977-08-18 1979-03-27 Rhodes Ronald J Water window
US4417831A (en) * 1980-04-30 1983-11-29 Brown & Root, Inc. Mooring and supporting apparatus and methods for a guyed marine structure
USRE32119E (en) * 1980-04-30 1986-04-22 Brown & Root, Inc. Mooring and supporting apparatus and methods for a guyed marine structure
DE9108370U1 (de) * 1991-07-02 1992-11-05 Stiftung Alfred-Wegener-Institut für Polar- und Meeresforschung, 2850 Bremerhaven Anordnung zur Verankerung von Meßgeräten in Wasserströmungen
US5364297A (en) * 1992-08-08 1994-11-15 Alfred-Wegener-Institut Fur Polar- Und Meeresforschung Mooring system for the stationary positioning of measurement devices in currents of water
DE4226614C2 (de) * 1992-08-08 2003-02-13 Stiftung A Wegener Inst Polar Anordnung zur stationären Positionierung von Meßgeräten in Wasserströmungen
US7244155B1 (en) 2006-08-21 2007-07-17 Cortland Cable Company, Inc. Mooring line for an oceanographic buoy system
US20100112879A1 (en) * 2007-04-02 2010-05-06 Rodrigo Baeza Ochoa De Ocariz Buoy for mooring and supplying services to pleasure craft
US9776690B1 (en) 2016-08-18 2017-10-03 The United States Of America As Represented By Secretary Of The Navy Vertical marker buoy

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