US3890916A - Fender for mooring posts or the like - Google Patents

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US3890916A
US3890916A US399930A US39993073A US3890916A US 3890916 A US3890916 A US 3890916A US 399930 A US399930 A US 399930A US 39993073 A US39993073 A US 39993073A US 3890916 A US3890916 A US 3890916A
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Josef Tummers
Walter Pisarik
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    • E—FIXED CONSTRUCTIONS
    • E02—HYDRAULIC ENGINEERING; FOUNDATIONS; SOIL SHIFTING
    • E02B—HYDRAULIC ENGINEERING
    • E02B3/00—Engineering works in connection with control or use of streams, rivers, coasts, or other marine sites; Sealings or joints for engineering works in general
    • E02B3/20—Equipment for shipping on coasts, in harbours or on other fixed marine structures, e.g. bollards
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    • 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
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  • the present invention relates to a fender for a pier, quay, mooring post or the like upon which impacts are transmitted by'a mooring vessel. Also, some attenuation of the impact forces is' to b'e'prov'ided for.
  • fenders It is known to resiliently support a fender, or several interconnected fenders on a stationary pier, mooring post or the like. Thefender is moved parallely when impacted upon or the fender is pivoted on an arbitrary, i.e., undefined, axis. Such fendershave usually'quite large surfaces for engagement, but the area of actual contact is really limited to almost point or line contact SUMMARYIOF'THE INVENTION It is an object of the present invention to construct a fender which, upon interaction with the hull of a vessel will not set up significant and excessive local pressure forces, but there will be a relatively large area of contact, even in the case of an oblique approach of the vessel. Moreover, the shape of the hull and local maneuvering and towing must be considered, to ensure broad surface-to-surface contact between fender and hull.
  • the fender body in cardanic fashion so that it can pivot and readily assume parallel disposition in relation to the outer surface of the hull and to permit the fender body to follow, whithin a limited range of course, changes in attitude and disposition of the vessel during mooring.
  • the fender body is not to be yieldingly supported but is to follow changes in the position of the ships hull independently from the force exerted by the ship upon the pier..
  • the fender body is to follow such changes over a larger range than is possible with fenders of the resiliently yielding variety.
  • the fender body is to turn and pivot on a vertical axis whenever the vessel engages the fender only partially and moves parallely to the pier.
  • the fender body is to turn and pivot on a horizontal axis which runs about parallel to the longitudinal extension of the pier so that the fender body engaging surface can match the disposition and extension of the hulls surface of a vessel when docking.
  • the fender body itself will be held normally in a normal medium disposition by means of interposed resiliently yielding means (e.g.tires) which maintain normal position of the fender when a vessel is not moored.
  • the cardan mount is preferably provided by a ball and socket joint providing for intersecting horizontal and vertical pivot axes in between the fenders surface engaging a vessel and the mooring post facility. Additionally, the fender body is prevented from turning on an axis normal to the said surface. For this, guide forks extend from the mooring post and receive rollers journalled on bearings which extend from the rear of the fender.
  • the fender body is constructed from wooden planks or boards or from resiliently yielding fenders on the fender body.
  • the ball or socket or both could be resildrawings in which:v
  • FIG. 1 is a top elevation of a mooring post with fender improved in accordance with the preferredembodiment of the invention, a moored vesselis shown in regular position;
  • FIG. 2 is a similar view but showing the vessel obliquely with corresponding tilting or pivoting of the fendergon a vertical axis;
  • I I FIG/3 is a side elevation of the construction with engagement of the fender with the vertical'h'ull surface; and
  • FIG. 4 is a similar view but with a hull surface tilted on a horizontal axis.
  • the pier or mooring facility shown therein has a plurality of posts 1 to 6 which are interconnected by a box-like frame 8 to establish a mooring post.
  • a vessel 20 is to be moored (or has been moored) to that post structure.
  • a spherical segment-like socket 10 is secured to frame 8 and on that side thereof, which is provided for mooring of vessels.
  • a ball 14 is received by socket 10, which ball is secured to a fender 12.
  • the ball and socket arrangement provides for a cardanic mount of the fender permitting pivot motions on two axes which intersect in the ball and socket center and which are located between the fender (and particular outer surface 22 thereof) and the mooring post.
  • Ball 14 is prevented from lifting off the socket 10 by means of a calotta ring 16 (see FIG. 3), i.e., a ring with an internal spherical surface to adapt to the contour of ball 14.
  • Fender body 12 has a soft cover 18 for providing for a soft surface 22 for engagement with the hull 20 of a vessel. Accordingly, one could term cover 18 as being the fender proper, while 12 is the fender body or fender support body.
  • Fender 12 is additionally secured against rotation on a (normally) horizontal axis extending transversely to surface 22.
  • fork-shaped horizontal guides 24 and 26 are provided for engaging horizontally journalled rollers 28, 30 in between. These rollers are journalled in bearings which, in turn, are secured to fender body 12.
  • Guides 24, 26, carry rings (tires) 32 made of elastic material, which hold fender body 12 in a near vertical disposition when a ships hull does not engage the fender.
  • FIGS. 3 and 4 show particularly such an annulus or tire 32 as hanging from guide fork 26.
  • Fender 24 can be equipped analogously.
  • FIG. 1 shows the hull 20 of a vessel in parallel disposition to the long side of the mooring post.
  • the fender body is made to pivot here on the center of the ball and socket arrangement 10-14, with a vertical pivot axis.
  • FIG. 3 shows the hull of the ship in vertical parallel disposition to fender surface 22, but again, a possibly occurring disposition is shown in FIG. 4, illustrating that the fender pivots on the ball and socket as well as on the rolls 30 on a horizontal axis.
  • the forks 24, 26, must have disposition so that the axes of the rollers are in a plane that runs through the horizontal pivot axis through ball and socket mount -14. More precisely, the axes of the rollers- 28, 30, should coincide and run through the center of the ball.
  • Fender for mooring facilities for ships comprising a fender body having a surface for engaging mooring ships:
  • a single ball andsocket arrangement for cardanically i mounting the fender to the mooring facility on the otherside from the surface at a single point and centrally located pivot mount to undergo a pivot motion about a horizontal axis and a vertical axis, both axes running through the pivot mount, so that upon engagement of the fender by a ship, the fender pivots on these axes into surface-to-surface engagement with the ship and independently from any force as exerted by the ship upon the fender;
  • Fender as in claim 1, wherein the means for preventing are first and second fork-like guides engaging journalled rollers, the first guides and rollers being mounted to the fender, the second guide being mounted to the mooring facility.

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US4376550A (en) * 1981-06-01 1983-03-15 Paccar Inc. Vehicle canopy
US4449471A (en) * 1979-12-13 1984-05-22 Roon Johannes Van Steering combination of pusher tug and barges
US4556002A (en) * 1982-04-27 1985-12-03 Georgii Hans C Buoyant plant especially for the off-shore manufacturing of concrete structures
US4784077A (en) * 1986-02-20 1988-11-15 Kristoffer Idland Mooring device
US5423632A (en) * 1993-03-01 1995-06-13 Shell Oil Company Compliant platform with slide connection docking to auxiliary vessel
US5439324A (en) * 1993-03-01 1995-08-08 Shell Oil Company Bumper docking between offshore drilling vessels and compliant platforms
US5486070A (en) * 1990-12-10 1996-01-23 Shell Oil Company Method for conducting offshore well operations
US5651640A (en) * 1993-03-01 1997-07-29 Shell Oil Company Complaint platform with parasite mooring through auxiliary vessel
GB2433973A (en) * 2006-01-05 2007-07-11 Donald Foster A device for fending off the stem of a vessel at a mooring
US20160340848A1 (en) * 2015-05-21 2016-11-24 Sharon Kedar Marine Fender System
CN107792315A (zh) * 2017-10-18 2018-03-13 天津魁普重工机械有限公司 一种用于船舶停靠的平行移动护板结构

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US3564858A (en) * 1969-04-01 1971-02-23 Texaco Inc Boat landing for offshore structure
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US4337009A (en) * 1979-07-27 1982-06-29 Regal International, Inc. Marine landing structure with omni directional energy absorbing characteristics
US4449471A (en) * 1979-12-13 1984-05-22 Roon Johannes Van Steering combination of pusher tug and barges
US4376550A (en) * 1981-06-01 1983-03-15 Paccar Inc. Vehicle canopy
US4556002A (en) * 1982-04-27 1985-12-03 Georgii Hans C Buoyant plant especially for the off-shore manufacturing of concrete structures
US4784077A (en) * 1986-02-20 1988-11-15 Kristoffer Idland Mooring device
US5486070A (en) * 1990-12-10 1996-01-23 Shell Oil Company Method for conducting offshore well operations
US5439324A (en) * 1993-03-01 1995-08-08 Shell Oil Company Bumper docking between offshore drilling vessels and compliant platforms
US5423632A (en) * 1993-03-01 1995-06-13 Shell Oil Company Compliant platform with slide connection docking to auxiliary vessel
US5651640A (en) * 1993-03-01 1997-07-29 Shell Oil Company Complaint platform with parasite mooring through auxiliary vessel
GB2433973A (en) * 2006-01-05 2007-07-11 Donald Foster A device for fending off the stem of a vessel at a mooring
GB2433973B (en) * 2006-01-05 2007-11-21 Donald Foster Marine Device
US20160340848A1 (en) * 2015-05-21 2016-11-24 Sharon Kedar Marine Fender System
US9765494B2 (en) * 2015-05-21 2017-09-19 Sharon Kedar Marine fender system
CN107792315A (zh) * 2017-10-18 2018-03-13 天津魁普重工机械有限公司 一种用于船舶停靠的平行移动护板结构
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