US3680321A - Mobile offshore platform - Google Patents

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US3680321A
US3680321A US94732A US3680321DA US3680321A US 3680321 A US3680321 A US 3680321A US 94732 A US94732 A US 94732A US 3680321D A US3680321D A US 3680321DA US 3680321 A US3680321 A US 3680321A
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    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E02—HYDRAULIC ENGINEERING; FOUNDATIONS; SOIL SHIFTING
    • E02B—HYDRAULIC ENGINEERING
    • E02B17/00—Artificial islands mounted on piles or like supports, e.g. platforms on raisable legs or offshore constructions; Construction methods therefor
    • E02B17/02—Artificial islands mounted on piles or like supports, e.g. platforms on raisable legs or offshore constructions; Construction methods therefor placed by lowering the supporting construction to the bottom, e.g. with subsequent fixing thereto
    • E02B17/021—Artificial islands mounted on piles or like supports, e.g. platforms on raisable legs or offshore constructions; Construction methods therefor placed by lowering the supporting construction to the bottom, e.g. with subsequent fixing thereto with relative movement between supporting construction and platform
    • E02B17/022—Artificial islands mounted on piles or like supports, e.g. platforms on raisable legs or offshore constructions; Construction methods therefor placed by lowering the supporting construction to the bottom, e.g. with subsequent fixing thereto with relative movement between supporting construction and platform adapted to travel on the bottom
    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E02—HYDRAULIC ENGINEERING; FOUNDATIONS; SOIL SHIFTING
    • E02F—DREDGING; SOIL-SHIFTING
    • E02F9/00—Component parts of dredgers or soil-shifting machines, not restricted to one of the kinds covered by groups E02F3/00 - E02F7/00
    • E02F9/02—Travelling-gear, e.g. associated with slewing gears
    • E02F9/04—Walking gears moving the dredger forward step-by-step
    • E02F9/045—Walking gears moving the dredger forward step-by-step for moving on the underwater bottom

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  • a mobile offshore platform has at least five columns [30] Foreign Application Prlomy Data mounted eccentrically in rotatable frames on the plat- Dec. 4, 1969 Netherlands 1 8255/69 form. Each column has a foot at its lower end in which the column is rotatably disposed.
  • the platform can 52 US. Cl.
  • ..6l/46.5, 115/9 walk on the Sea floor by lowering three feet, raising 51 Int CL 021, 17 00 E02f 9 04 1365b 21/50 the remaining feet, rotating the frames of the lowered [58] Field of Search ..61/46.5; 115/9; 37/73 feet whereupon the Platfmm advances with mum movement while the column rotates in its emplaced foot, then lowering the raised feet, and so on.
  • SHEET 1 OF 5 INVENTOR BY W7 ATTORNEYS PHENTEDAUB' 1 m2
  • SHEET 2 OF 5 1 NVENTOR ATTORNEYS PATENTEmus' I ma
  • SHEET 3 OF 5 INVENTOR Cam/4 /5 p p s ATTORNEYS P'A'TEN'TEBAus 1 I972 3.680.321
  • the columns in the rotatable frames are movable horizontally relative to the frames.
  • the platform is movable over the sea bottom without the necessity of bringing the platform down to the water level before each horizontal displacement.
  • the platform rests on three columns while the other columns are lifted from the sea-bottom and the frames of the lifted columns are rotated so that the columns move from an eccentric rear position to an eccentric forward position in which position the columns are lowered again.
  • the pontoon will then be moved as a whole relative to the columns, the frames and columns moving horizontally relative to each other.
  • FIG. 3 shows the platform in its operative position, resting on all six columns. Notice that with respect to movement of the platform toward the lower right, as indicated by the arrows in FIGS. 5 and 8,
  • the columns 2, 4 and 6 are in the forward position while the columns 3, 5 and 7 are in a rear position.
  • FIG. 1 is a top plan view of a mobile offshore platform according to the present invention
  • FIG. 2 is 'a side elevational view of the platform of FIG. 1, with parts broken away;
  • FIGS. 3-8 are somewhat schematic views showing the sequence of movement of the platform according to the present invention.
  • FIG. 9 is an enlarged fragmentary perspective view of the lower end of a column.
  • a mobile offshore platform comprising a buoyant platform or pontoon 1 having six supporting columns 2 7.
  • Each column is mounted for rotation at its lower end in and relative to a foot 1' and for vertical movement in and relative to a rectangular frame 8 which in turn is carried eccentrically by a rotatable circular frame 9 mounted for rotation about its vertical axis on and relative to pontoon 1 under the influence of power means 9.
  • Each frame 8 carries locking devices 10 operated by means of cylinders 11, these locks engaging selectively along the length of a toothed-rack carried by each column.
  • a second frame 13 guided on each column has tive to their stationary feet.
  • the pontoon 1 thus .undergoes an increment of forward motion along a semicircular path having a sagittal length twice the eccentricity of each column in its frame 9; while the columns 3, 5 and 7, which are simultaneously or sequentially undergoing the same advance relative to the pontoon 1, undergo a total forward movement equal to four times the eccentricity of the columns in the frames 9.
  • the columns 3, 5 and 7 are then lowered, as indicated in FIG. 6, and the columns 2, 4 and 6 are raised, as indicated in FIG. 7, which transfers the load to columns 3, 5 and 7.
  • the frames 9 are then rotated in the direction of the arrows shown in FIG. 8, which may be the same as the direction shown in FIG. 5 or may be the oppositeas indicated in FIG. 8, and the cycle is repeated. It will thus be recognized that, for each rotation of the frames9, the pontoon advances twice the eccentricity of the columns and the frames 9; but for each complete cycle, the pontoon advances by four times that eccentricity.
  • the lower end 16 of the column is rotatable relative to foot 1, so that the column can rotate while the foot remains stationary on the sea floor.
  • a mobile offshore platform comprising a pontoon and at least five vertical-columns, means mounting the columns for vertical movement parallel to theirlength relative to th'e pontoon, means for rotating at least three of the columns relative to the pontoon about vertical axes eccentric to the columns, said at least three of the columns having lower portions rotatable relative to upper portions of the columns about upright axes.
  • each column being mounted in a frame which is connected to the pontoon, each said frame being rotatable about its vertical axis relative to the pontoon, the column being fixed in the frame against horizontal movement of thecolumn relative to the frame.
  • said horizontal Y about a vertical axis eccentric to the raised columns to advance the raised columns horizontally, lowering the horizontally advanced plurality of columns again into supporting relationship to the pontoon, and while said plurality of columns are raised, rotating said at least three supporting columns about their vertical axes while swinging the pontoon about said axes to advance the pontoon horizontally.

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US20080029749A1 (en) * 2006-02-01 2008-02-07 Macrae Carey Hollow Fence Post to Pipe Adapter
US20090042466A1 (en) * 2004-03-16 2009-02-12 Seacore Limited Displaceable platform structure and method of the displacement thereof
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JPS5021501A (sv) * 1973-06-29 1975-03-07
JPS5025003A (sv) * 1973-07-04 1975-03-17
JPS5595709A (en) * 1979-01-11 1980-07-21 Mitsubishi Heavy Ind Ltd Auto-travelling type floating work-platform with 6-legs
US4527650A (en) * 1983-03-18 1985-07-09 Odetics, Inc. Walking machine
US5921336A (en) * 1997-09-16 1999-07-13 Parker Drilling Company Walking substructure device
US6581525B2 (en) 2001-05-09 2003-06-24 Columbia Trailer Co., Inc. Method and apparatus for transporting and steering a load
US8025462B2 (en) * 2004-03-16 2011-09-27 Fugro Seacore, Ltd. Displaceable platform structure and method of the displacement thereof
US20090042466A1 (en) * 2004-03-16 2009-02-12 Seacore Limited Displaceable platform structure and method of the displacement thereof
US20080029749A1 (en) * 2006-02-01 2008-02-07 Macrae Carey Hollow Fence Post to Pipe Adapter
US7681674B1 (en) * 2008-12-05 2010-03-23 Loadmaster Engineering, Inc. System for positioning transportable and relocatable heavy equipment
US20160186495A1 (en) * 2014-12-24 2016-06-30 Superior Energy Services-North America Services, Inc. Transport Platform Apparatus And Method
US10144463B2 (en) * 2014-12-24 2018-12-04 Superior Energy Services-North America Services, Inc Transport platform apparatus and method
US10246946B2 (en) 2015-03-25 2019-04-02 Columbia Trailer Co., Inc. Method and apparatus for transporting and steering a heavy load
US10358876B2 (en) 2015-07-22 2019-07-23 Columbia Trailer Co., Inc. Method and apparatus for transporting and steering a heavy load
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