US3745954A - Barge for ferrying a trailer - Google Patents

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US3745954A
US3745954A US00136148A US3745954DA US3745954A US 3745954 A US3745954 A US 3745954A US 00136148 A US00136148 A US 00136148A US 3745954D A US3745954D A US 3745954DA US 3745954 A US3745954 A US 3745954A
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B63—SHIPS OR OTHER WATERBORNE VESSELS; RELATED EQUIPMENT
    • B63B—SHIPS OR OTHER WATERBORNE VESSELS; EQUIPMENT FOR SHIPPING 
    • B63B35/00—Vessels or similar floating structures specially adapted for specific purposes and not otherwise provided for
    • B63B35/28—Barges or lighters
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B63—SHIPS OR OTHER WATERBORNE VESSELS; RELATED EQUIPMENT
    • B63B—SHIPS OR OTHER WATERBORNE VESSELS; EQUIPMENT FOR SHIPPING 
    • B63B25/00—Load-accommodating arrangements, e.g. stowing, trimming; Vessels characterised thereby
    • B63B25/002—Load-accommodating arrangements, e.g. stowing, trimming; Vessels characterised thereby for goods other than bulk goods
    • B63B25/008—Load-accommodating arrangements, e.g. stowing, trimming; Vessels characterised thereby for goods other than bulk goods for wheeled cargo
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B63—SHIPS OR OTHER WATERBORNE VESSELS; RELATED EQUIPMENT
    • B63B—SHIPS OR OTHER WATERBORNE VESSELS; EQUIPMENT FOR SHIPPING 
    • B63B27/00—Arrangement of ship-based loading or unloading equipment for cargo or passengers
    • B63B27/14—Arrangement of ship-based loading or unloading equipment for cargo or passengers of ramps, gangways or outboard ladders ; Pilot lifts
    • B63B27/143—Ramps
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B63—SHIPS OR OTHER WATERBORNE VESSELS; RELATED EQUIPMENT
    • B63B—SHIPS OR OTHER WATERBORNE VESSELS; EQUIPMENT FOR SHIPPING 
    • B63B43/00—Improving safety of vessels, e.g. damage control, not otherwise provided for
    • B63B43/02—Improving safety of vessels, e.g. damage control, not otherwise provided for reducing risk of capsizing or sinking
    • B63B43/04—Improving safety of vessels, e.g. damage control, not otherwise provided for reducing risk of capsizing or sinking by improving stability
    • B63B43/06—Improving safety of vessels, e.g. damage control, not otherwise provided for reducing risk of capsizing or sinking by improving stability using ballast tanks
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B63—SHIPS OR OTHER WATERBORNE VESSELS; RELATED EQUIPMENT
    • B63B—SHIPS OR OTHER WATERBORNE VESSELS; EQUIPMENT FOR SHIPPING 
    • B63B21/00—Tying-up; Shifting, towing, or pushing equipment; Anchoring
    • B63B2021/001—Mooring bars, yokes, or the like, e.g. comprising articulations on both ends
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B63—SHIPS OR OTHER WATERBORNE VESSELS; RELATED EQUIPMENT
    • B63B—SHIPS OR OTHER WATERBORNE VESSELS; EQUIPMENT FOR SHIPPING 
    • B63B35/00—Vessels or similar floating structures specially adapted for specific purposes and not otherwise provided for
    • B63B35/44—Floating buildings, stores, drilling platforms, or workshops, e.g. carrying water-oil separating devices
    • B63B2035/4426—Stationary floating buildings for human use, e.g. floating dwellings or floating restaurants
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B63—SHIPS OR OTHER WATERBORNE VESSELS; RELATED EQUIPMENT
    • B63B—SHIPS OR OTHER WATERBORNE VESSELS; EQUIPMENT FOR SHIPPING 
    • B63B2207/00—Buoyancy or ballast means
    • B63B2207/02—Variable ballast or buoyancy
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y02—TECHNOLOGIES OR APPLICATIONS FOR MITIGATION OR ADAPTATION AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE
    • Y02A—TECHNOLOGIES FOR ADAPTATION TO CLIMATE CHANGE
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  • the present invention relates to a barge. for ferrying a trailer, particularly a house-trailer.
  • the object of our invention is to provide means enabling trailer transportation on lakes and rivers.
  • the barge according to the invention solves the problems of trailer embarkation and disembarkation, being provided for this purpose with an overhanging formation adapted to come to rest on a disembarkation or embarkation wharf and with shiftable ballast means adapted to adjust the posture attitude of the barge for loading an unloading.
  • FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a barge according to the invention
  • FIG. 2 is a view similar to FIG. 1 but with the barge
  • FIG. 9 shows the barge alongside the wharf
  • FIG. 10 is a schematic view of the back of the barge showing a step of the barge separating from the wharf
  • FIG. 11 shows the barge moving away from the wharf.
  • the barge according to the invention is a hollow body having a generally prismatic shape defined by a flatbottom 11, external side walls 12 and 13, and an upper dock '14 provided in the central section thereof with a sunken floor 15 latter being bounded by the side faces 16 and 16, by and a front face 18 delimiting a rectangular berth which is open toward the rear.
  • the interior of the barge is advantageously lined with a foamed material having a very low density, used in such a quantity that the barge is made unsinkable.
  • Water ballasts are provided in the hollow body, for
  • the water tank of fore ballast 19 is connected to that of an oft ballast, here the diagonally opposite ballast 22, by means of a conduit 23 dipping down to the bottom of the ballasts and containing a control valve or gate 24.
  • a conduit 23 dipping down to the bottom of the ballasts and containing a control valve or gate 24.
  • At the top of the ballasts terminate respective pipes 25 and 26 originating at respective distributors, 27 and 28, which communicate via a conduit 30, controlled by valve 29, with a low pressure air reservoir 31; the latter is connected to a bottle 34, provided with a manual relief valve 35, by way of a pipe 32 having a stopcock 33.
  • a cam 36 preferably fixed on the same shaft as the gate 24 and movable by a handle 37, operates the distributor 27 or 28 which, in a first composition, can be vented to the atmopshere through exhaust pipes 38 and 39 by the action of the respective low dwell 40 or 41 and, in a second cam position, can be connected to supply conduit 30 by the action of the a respective high dwell42 or 43 foradmitting compressed air into the ballast 19 or 22, depending on the direction of swing of handle 37. Since gate 24 is open in the operative position of dwell 42 or 43, the air pressure created in the tank of ballast l9 displaces some of its water content through conduit 23 into the tank of ballast 22 or vice versa.
  • a similar arrangement is provided for shifting the weight between the ballasts 20 and 21.
  • the back of the barge comprises supporting and/or mooring means formed by aprons 51 and 52 flanking a notch 53 and protruding beyond the back walls 54 and 55 of the barge.
  • the flat undersides of these aprons constitute slating surfaces 56 and 57.
  • the seating surfaces 56. 57 overhangs the rab bet of the wharf.
  • the aft ballasts are loaded by the transfer of water from the fore ballasts, and the seating surface a gradually comes down upon the wharf until contacting the latter the weight of the barge partially resting on the wharf contributes to the fixation of the barge in a suitable position by means of ropes or cables c wound about capstans as shown in FIG. 9.
  • the trailer is advanced until its wheels R are practically in line with the median transverse plane of the barge and may then be anchored in position within its berth.
  • a board may be placed in the recess 53 and can be used as an anchorage for an outboard-motorboat serving for the propulsion of the barge carrying the trailer.
  • the recess 53 is substantially narrower than the rectangular depression bounded by edges 16 18 whereby parts of aprons 51 and 52, which are flush with the top of wharf Q (see FIG. 9) during docking, form tracks for the trailer wheels R on the level of floor 15. a
  • a barge for the ferrying of a wheeled trailer cornprising a floating body with a deck forming a trailer berth open to one end of said body, the latter being provided at said one end with an outwardly projecting formation having a flat underside, and adjustable ballast means for tilting said body to elevate said one end with reference to the opposite end for letting said underside overhang an upper surface of a wharf, accessible to said berth, during docking and for thereupon reversing the attitude of said body whereby said formation is firmly seated on said surface.

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US4048937A (en) * 1974-12-27 1977-09-20 Ab Gotaverken Cargo carrying vessel having at least one cargo carrying deck
US4109604A (en) * 1977-05-31 1978-08-29 Caf Industries Fresh water supply and waste water retention system
US5203271A (en) * 1991-05-22 1993-04-20 Chapman Malcolm G Shallow draft barge
WO2005085559A1 (en) * 2004-03-05 2005-09-15 British Waterways Board Portable cabin and apparatus for transporting portable cabins and the like
US9168983B2 (en) 2012-06-22 2015-10-27 David C. Lee RV barge

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US1000152A (en) * 1908-09-02 1911-08-08 Friedrich Correll Floating derrick.
US1541989A (en) * 1925-04-03 1925-06-16 James G Miller Double-decked car ferry
US2669210A (en) * 1951-05-22 1954-02-16 John H Bernhard Barge tipple
US3265025A (en) * 1965-01-11 1966-08-09 Arthur A Haigh Boat for house trailers

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US1000152A (en) * 1908-09-02 1911-08-08 Friedrich Correll Floating derrick.
US1541989A (en) * 1925-04-03 1925-06-16 James G Miller Double-decked car ferry
US2669210A (en) * 1951-05-22 1954-02-16 John H Bernhard Barge tipple
US3265025A (en) * 1965-01-11 1966-08-09 Arthur A Haigh Boat for house trailers

Cited By (5)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US4048937A (en) * 1974-12-27 1977-09-20 Ab Gotaverken Cargo carrying vessel having at least one cargo carrying deck
US4109604A (en) * 1977-05-31 1978-08-29 Caf Industries Fresh water supply and waste water retention system
US5203271A (en) * 1991-05-22 1993-04-20 Chapman Malcolm G Shallow draft barge
WO2005085559A1 (en) * 2004-03-05 2005-09-15 British Waterways Board Portable cabin and apparatus for transporting portable cabins and the like
US9168983B2 (en) 2012-06-22 2015-10-27 David C. Lee RV barge

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