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US3835802A
US3835802A US00138951A US13895171A US3835802A US 3835802 A US3835802 A US 3835802A US 00138951 A US00138951 A US 00138951A US 13895171 A US13895171 A US 13895171A US 3835802 A US3835802 A US 3835802A
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  • a marine cargo vessel has two parallel hulls which are [21] Appl. No.: 138,951 connected by a bridging structure. At least some of the interior decks in the hulls can be flooded and sluice gates in the hulls connect the interior decks [30] Foreign Application Pnonty Data with the exterior of the hulls at a level above the water May 2, 1970 Germany 2021653 line An outwardly open receptacle capable of taining water and containing at least one floatable [2%] PSIll.
  • containers can be 1 Re erences C'ted floated into and out of the decks for loading and un- UNITED STATES PATENTS wading 2,942,425 6/1960 DeLong et al. ll4/43.5 X 3,191,568 6/1965 Schroeder et al 114/435 x 13 Clam, 13 Drawmg Flgures L! w v PAIENTEDSEPI mu SHEEI 0F 7 Fig. 6
  • the present invention relates generally to a marine cargo vessel and more particularly to a marine cargo vessel for transporting floatable containers.
  • LASl-I is an acronym standing for Lighter Aboard Ship and indicates a type of cargo vessel which is capable of transporting floatable containers, such as lighters, barges and the like. With this type of vessel a pier is no longer necessary for loading and unloading. Instead, the containers are floated -either propelled by their own power source or pulled by a suitable tug or the likefrom land to the cargo vessel where they are loaded aboard.
  • the vessel may be anchored far out in a harbor or, just to mention another possible example, it may be anchored off the coast in the region where an inland waterway merges into the ocean so that barges or similar floatable containers can be brought down the waterway from inland and loaded aboard the vessel.
  • the discharge or unloading is carried out in reverse sequence and, again, requires no pier for the unloading.
  • This construction has certain disadvantages, namely high installation costs, undesired shifts in the trim of the vessel every time a barge is either loaded or unloaded, relatively long loading and unloading times, and the impossibility to stow the barges independently and in several vertically superimposed decks.
  • a concomitant object of the present invention is to provide such an improved marine cargo vessel in which the floatable containers can be floated into and out of floodable deck portions without endangering the stability of the vessel in the water and without endangering thus the safety of the vessel. This of course includes that the initial stability of the vessel should not be allowed to deteriorate or to be negated.
  • a marine cargo vessel which, briefly stated, comprises hull means having an inside and an outside.
  • Deck means is provided at the inside of the hull means and is at least in part constructed as floodable basin means.
  • Sluice means communicates with the outside and with the basin means in order to enable the conveyance of floatable containers into and out of the hull means by floatation.
  • our novel cargo vessel as a multi-hull vessel because of the greater advantages afforded with respect to the stability and the trim of the vessel, as well as with respect to a stable and advantageous overall construction.
  • the sluice arrangement should be located between the hulls of the vessel.
  • a vessel of the catamaran type having two transversely spaced hulls which are connected by a catamaran bridge.
  • the level equalization between the water level of the flooded decks or deck portions and the level of water surrounding the hulls can be afforded by a sluice chamber with sufficient height for the water, for instance a sluice shaft.
  • a trimaran -that is a triple-hulled vessel as opposed to the catamaran-type vessel which has two hullsthe sluice shaft could for instance be located in the middle hull.
  • the lifting device is configurated as an upwardly open receptacle which is guided for vertical movement between the laterally adjacent hulls, and the side walls of which have a height which is greater than the maximum level of submersion of the barges themselves.
  • the receptacle has movable side wall portions and can be moved into registry with gates communicating with the floodable decks or deck portions, sealing means being provided for establishing a sealing connection between the exterior of the hulls around the gates and the receptacle, so that the latter constitutes the actual sluice chamber.
  • a barge can be floated into or out of the receptacle for further transportation.
  • a receptacle can at least in theory be so constructed that it can hold more than a single barge at a time.
  • the length of the receptacle correspond approximately to the width of the catamaran bridge structure, so that at its opposite end faces -which are respectively juxtaposed with the two hullssealing means may be provided at the receptacle which can be connected with the frames of two transversely registering gates in the two bulls in order to permit simultaneous or selected access from the receptacle to either or both of the hulls. It is advantageous if, at least in its uppermost position, the receptacle engages with a suitable recess or other means provided for this purpose in the catamaran bridge structure, so that it can be made fast with the same and the bridge will thus provide a planar surface.
  • Raising and lowering of the conveying arrangement may be carried out by connecting it with floats which can be raised and lowered in upright tanks provided in the hulls of the vessel. Both the floats and the upright tanks are evenly distributed in both hulls and so constructed that the floats will have a vertical travel path in the tanks which approximately corresponds to the maximum lifting height required for the lift arrangement.
  • the accommodation of such floats and tanks in the hulls of a catamaran-type vessel presents no problem and the lifting forces in such an arrangement are provided by the buoyance effect.
  • the transmission of the buoyancy of the floats to the platform, receptacle or the like can be effected by connecting the floats with a portal construction provided at its upper end with traverse members to which the receptacle or the like is connected, as by being suspended therefrom.
  • suitable supports which project upwardly above the tanks and are provided in the region of their upper ends with reversing wheels or pulleys, about which cables, chains or the like are trained which are connected at one end with the receptacle or the like and at the other end with one of the floats, provide a reverse effect than what has been just set forth above.
  • the floats are also possible to provide the floats as hollow containers which can be filled with water and, when so filled, have a sufficient weight to lift the receptacle or similar means to the necessary level.
  • the floats will again be positioned in tanks and of course changes in the level of the receptacle can be effected by varying the amount of water which is admitted into the hollow floats and/or tanks.
  • electrical or other lift means can also be employed and are fully within the concept of the present invention.
  • a more speedy and economical loading and unloading of the vessel can, however, be achieved by providing several individual sluice arrangements with their associated lifting devices.
  • at least two such arrangements may be provided at opposite ends of the catamaran bridge and each be associated with its own lifting device.
  • an additional sluice arrangement and lifting device may be located intennediate the two ends approximately at the middle of the catamaran bridge.
  • FIG. 1 is a highly diagrammatic cross section through a catamaran-type of cargo vessel embodying the invention
  • FIG. 2 is a fragmentary top-plan view of FIG. 1;
  • FIG. 3 is a top-plan view of a further cargo vessel embodying the invention.
  • FIG. 4 is a view similar to FIG. 3 illustrating yet an additional embodiment
  • FIG. 5 is a fragmentary side-elevational view in diagrammatic illustration, with the side wall partially broken away, of an additional embodiment of the invention.
  • FIG. 6 is a view similar to FIG. 1 but on an enlarged scale illustrating details of a lifting arrangement
  • FIG. 7 is a view similar to FIG. 6 but illustrating a different embodiment
  • FIG. 8 is a fragmentary top-plan view of FIG. 7;
  • FIG. 9 is a side-elevational diagrammatic detail view of a receptacle according to the present invention.
  • FIG. 10 is a top-plan view of FIG. 9;
  • FIG. 11 is a fragmentary diagrammatic detail view on an enlarged scale, illustrating in partially sectioned elevation a further embodiment of the invention.
  • FIG. 12 is a view analagous to FIG. 11 illustrating an additional embodiment of the invention.
  • FIG. 13 is a view similar to FIG. 12 but illustrating yet another embodiment of the invention.
  • FIGS. 1 and 2 it will be seen that in this embodiment we have illustrated a marine cargo vessel of the catamaran type, that is a vessel having two transversely spaced hulls 1 and 2. They are connected by a catamaran bridge and together with the same provide a loading deck which extends over the entire width'of the vessel.
  • Barges 3, also shown only diagrammatically, are to be stowed on this deck either individually or in stacked relationship.
  • the deck is surrounded by the bulwark 4 which defines with the deck a basin means which may be subdivided by longitudinally extending bulkheads 5 or the like into individual basins B and B
  • the basins B and B may be either flooded individually, or jointly.
  • FIGS. 1 and 2 illustrate in diagrammatic form a sluice arrangement and a lifting arrangement for transporting the barges 3 from the level L of the water line in which the vessel floats, to the level of the basins B B
  • an upwardly open receptacle 6 of generally rectangular outline which is arranged in the region of the catamaran bridge between the hulls 1 and 2 and whose length corre' sponds substantially to the width of the catamaran bridge.
  • the receptacle 6 is suspended as by means of cables, chains or the like from the upper traverse portions 7 of a portal construction 8.
  • FIGS. 6 and 8 indicate details of the portal construction on a larger scale and in more detail. It will be seen that the portal construction is mounted on a plurality of floats 9 which are accommodated in upright flotation tanks 10 which are mounted in the two hulls 1 and 2 evenly distributed with respect to the latter. The floats 9 can freely rise and descend in the flotation tanks 10 and it will be appreciated that the dimensioning of the floats 9 and of the tanks 10 will depend upon the requisite height to which the receptacle 6 must be raised. Pumps 11 serve for introducing or removing water from the interior of the tank 10.
  • the reverse operation from that shown in FIGS. 6 and 8 is obtained.
  • the receptacle 6 is connected with the floats 9 by means of a plurality of ropes, cables or the like 12 which are secured at one end to the receptacle 6 and, after passing around reversing wheels or pulleys 13 provided at the upper ends of uprights as illustrated are connected with their other ends to the floats 9.
  • the floats 9 are constructed as hollow containers which can be filled with water, as is diagrammatically indicated at 9a.
  • the gates 14 may be of various different types, for instance they may be of the sliding type, they may be of the pivotal or tilting type or the like, and they are preferably operated electrically or mechanically.
  • several side wall portions of the receptacle 6 are movable so that they can be moved out of the way during loading and unloading of barges into and out of the receptacle 6.
  • the sluice is teamed with two initial chambers 15 and 16 which are located before and behind the sluice as seen with direction to the longitudinal extension D of the vessel.
  • Gates 17 permit entry of barges into the chambers 15 and 16, and this arrangement particularly facilitates the loading and unloading and reduces the time required for this purpose.
  • all four side walls of the receptacle 6 must be made movable as shown in FIGS. 9 and 10.
  • FIGS. 11, 12 and 13 we have shown some exemplary embodiments illustrating how the sealing between the hulls and the receptacle 6 can be accomplished.
  • FIG. 11 we have illustrated in a fragmentary detail view an embodiment of a vessel having several superimposed decks 18 on each of which barges 3 are to be stowed.
  • the inner vertical wall W of the hull is here provided with openings and with gates 19 for closing these openings.
  • the gates each have an end portion 19a and at the juncture between theirtwo arms or angled portions they are mounted for turning movement about a horizontal tilting axis 19b. When they are in their open position (see the uppermost gate 19 in FIG.
  • the gates are received in part in a recess 18a of the respective deck 18, whereas the angled portion 19a is received in a recess 18b of the deck 18.
  • the portions 19a may also serve as a counterbalance to the remaining portion of the respective gate 19 and are provided with sealing means (not shown).
  • Suitable drives (not illustrated because they may be conventional) are provided and advantageously act upon the portions 19a to effect displacement of the gates 19 between the full-line closed position shown at the center of FIG. 11 and the full-line open position shown at the top of FIG. 1 l, with the respectively opposite position always being shown in broken lines.
  • FIG. 12 differs from FIG. 11 mainly in that the outer wall W of the hull is somewhat differently configurated in the region of the deck 18, and that a hose-type sealingelement 20 is provided which seals the juncture between the wall W and the receptacle 6 one side wall of which is here illustrated and identified with reference numeral 15, and which side wall can be clearly seen to be foldable down in order to permit free communication between the interior of the receptacle 6 and the deck 18.
  • the hose element may have high inherent elasticity and may, according to a further embodiment of the invention, be inflatable to provide a seal, or a better seal than otherwise possible.
  • FIG. 3 we have illustrated an embodiment which is quite pronounced of that shown in FIG. 12, except that here the receptacle 6 is replaced by a simple platform 21 with all other components being the same as before.
  • the level L illustrated in FIG. 12 and of course valid also for FIGS. 11 and 13- identifies the level of liquid on or in the flooded decks l8.
  • FIG. 3 we have illustrated diagrammatically and in topplan view one embodiment of the cargo vessel according to the present invention.
  • FIG. 3 we have shown the deck of a catmaran-type cargo vessel on which barges 3 can be stowed in three parallel rows with the direction of movement of the barges for loading and unloading purposes being indicated by the arrows.
  • sluices and lifting devices At the opposite ends of the catamaran bridge which connects the hulls 1 and 2 together, there are provided sluices and lifting devices in the regions identified with reference numerals 22 and 23, and these may be of the type described above with respect to FIGS. 1 and 2 and 6-13.
  • FIG. 4 we have illustrated a further embodiment, again on hand of catamaran-type vessel, in which the sluice and the lifting arrangement are provided midships, that is in the region of the trim center of the vessel, and cooperate with the chambers 15 and 16 as illustrated and discussed with respect to FIG. 8 before.
  • FIG. 5 we have further illustrated the possibility of stowing individual barges 3 on different superimposed decks A, B, C and D, but arranging the barges on each deck in such a manner that vertically superimposed barges form a stack.
  • FIG. 5 also shows how the barges can be arranged in laterally adjacent stacks on one or more decks, one being shown and identified with reference numeral A.
  • the present invention is fully applicable not only to the primarily illustrated dual-hull catamarantype cargo vessels, but also to single-hull cargo vessels and to multiple-hull cargo vessels having more than two hulls.
  • a marine cargo vessel comprising hull means including at least two transversely spaced connected hulls and having an inside, an outside and a waterline; deck means at the inside of said hull means and being at least in part constructed as floodable basin means; sluice means, including at least one sluice located between said hulls at a level above said waterline and communicating with said outside and with at least said basin means for enabling movement of floatable containers into and out of said hull means by flotation; and conveying means, including an upwardly open receptacle adapted to be filled with water and vertically displaceable between said hulls, for conveying said containers between said waterline and said level as well as vice versa.
  • said hull means comprising at least two transversely spaced hulls, and connecting means connecting said hulls with one another; and wherein said sluice means are located between and communicate with both of said hulls.
  • a cargo vessel as defined in claim 2 said connecting means constituting a bridging structure and connecting said hulls in catamaran fashion.
  • a cargo vessel as defined in claim 1, said sluice comprising at least one gate provided at said level in one of said bulls and facing the other of said hulls, and said receptacle being movable to and from a position in which it is in registry with said gate; and further comprising sealing means cooperating with said receptacle and said one hull for preventing the escape of liquid from said receptacle and said basin means to the outside of said vessel when said gate is open and said receptacle communicates with said basin means.
  • a cargo vessel as defined in claim further comprising an additional gate provided in said other hull and located opposite said one gate so as to be in registry with said receptacle when the latter is in registry with said one gate; and wherein said sealing means also cooperates with said other hull for preventing the escape of liquid when said other gate is open.
  • a cargo vessel as defined in claim 1 further comprising a bridging structure extending longitudinally of said hulls and having one and an other endportion, said sluice and conveying means being located in the region of said one endportion; and further comprising an additional sluice and conveying means located in the region of said other endportion.
  • a marine cargo vessel comprising hull means including at least two transversely spaced connected hulls and having an inside, an outside and a waterline; deck means at the inside of said hull means and being at least in part constructed as floodable basin means; sluice means, including at least one sluice located between said hulls at a level above said waterline and communicating with said outside and with at least said basin means for enabling movement of floatable containers into and out of said hull means by flotation; and conveying means for conveying said containers between said waterline and said level as well as vice versa, said conveying means comprising a support for containers to be conveyed, floodable tanks mounted in said hulls, floats received in said tanks and adapted to rise and descend therein in dependence upon the level of liquid in said tanks and connecting elements connecting said support with said floats so that said support rises and descends in correspondence with the level of liquid in said tanks.
  • a cargo vessel as defined in claim 11, said connecting elements being portal bridges having upright portions connected with floats in tanks provided in the respective hulls, and provided with upper ends, and transverse portions connecting said upper ends of said upright portions and having said support suspended therefrom.
  • a marine cargo vessel comprising hull means including at least two transversely spaced connected hulls and having an inside, an outside and a waterline; deck means at the inside of said hull means and being at least in part constructed as floodable basin means; sluice means, including at least one sluice located between said hulls at a level above said waterline and communicating with said outside and with at least said basin means for enabling movement of floatable containers into and out of said hull means by flotation; and conveying means for conveying said containers between said waterline and said level as well as vice versa, said conveying means comprising a support for containers to be conveyed, upright tanks mounted in said hulls, hollow floodable elements received in the respective tanks for vertical displacement therein, upright structures extending upwardly of said tanks and carrying reversing pulleys, and elongated flexible connecting elements trained about the respective reversing pulleys and each having one endportion connected to said support and another endportion connected to one of said hollow floodable elements.

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