US3908212A - Buoy with associated mooring arrangement - Google Patents

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US3908212A
US3908212A US399956A US39995673A US3908212A US 3908212 A US3908212 A US 3908212A US 399956 A US399956 A US 399956A US 39995673 A US39995673 A US 39995673A US 3908212 A US3908212 A US 3908212A
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Heijst Willem Jan Van
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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 
    • B63B22/00—Buoys
    • B63B22/02—Buoys specially adapted for mooring a vessel
    • B63B22/021—Buoys specially adapted for mooring a vessel and for transferring fluids, e.g. liquids

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  • the turntable has at least one laterally extending rigid arm integral therewith and the arm at its other end is secured to a vessel for vertical swinging movement relative to the vessel about a horizontal axis that is fixed relative to the vessel.
  • Anchor chains moor the buoy and a pipeline runs through the buoy and the arm to the vessel.
  • the present invention relates to a buoy with associated mooring arrangement, which buoy is anchored by means of a number of anchors and anchor chains, while the associated mooring arrangement is coupled to the buoy by one or more rigid members which serve to hold the mooring arrangement away from the buoy, which members are on the one hand pivotally hinged on a horizontally disposed pin affixed to the mooring arrangement and are on the other hand coupled to the buoy in such a manner that the mooring arrangement can swing about the axis of a vertically arranged shaft on the buoy, whilst the anchor chains are attached to the buoy.
  • Such a buoy with associated mooring arrangement is known from the Dutch Patent Application No. 6600321, laid open to public inspection.
  • the rigid coupling member is pivotably hinged to a turn-table arranged on the buoy,
  • the coupling member is rigidly attached to a body, layered upon the buoy, which body with respect to the buoy solely can turn around a vertically disposed shaft and which body is supported by the buoy upwards as well as downwards.
  • the buoy is held by the mooring arrangement, in this case the tanker, in a manner which is comparable with the manner in which a wheelbarrow is held, which means that rolling movements of vessel and buoy in a transverse direction are performed by both of them together and that with stamping and extinguishing movements of the tanker respectively the buoy performs small stamping movements.
  • the buoy can be constructed so that it has little inertia to be overcome and its dimensions and form are such that it offers very little resistance to the action 0 the waves and tides thereon.
  • This drawing shows a vessel 1, connected to the buoy 2 by means of two arms 3, which arms at 4 are pivotably connected to the tanker 1 around a horizontally disposed shaft and are integral with a turn-table 5, which turn-table by means of an annular member 6 that extends axially downwardly and terminates in a radially outwardly extending flange is rotatably connected to the buoy 2 for rotation about a vertically disposed axis 7.
  • the anchor-chains 8 are connected to a ring 9, which is integral with the buoy 2.
  • a pipe-line 10 runs through one of the arms 3, which pipe-line is connected through a rotatable coupling 11 to a pipe-line 12, running downwards.
  • a buoy and an associated vessel means for transferring liquid from the buoy to the vessel for storage in the vessel, a plurality of anchors and anchor chains anchoring the buoy, a turntable, bearings mounting the turntable on the buoy for rotation relative to the buoy about a vertical axis, said bearings interconnecting the turntable and the buoy in upward and downward directions, an elongated rigid coupling member fixedly secured to the turntable at one end of the coupling member near the buoy and extending laterally away from the buoy, and a horizontal shaft at the other end of the coupling member remote from the buoy and connecting the coupling member to the vessel for vertical swinging movement of the coupling member and turntable and buoy on and relative to the vessel about a horizontal axis that is fixed relative to the vessel.

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US4025976A (en) * 1975-02-17 1977-05-31 Ingenieursbureau Marcon (Marine Consultants) B. V. Submarine pivoting structure with ducting
US4088089A (en) * 1975-11-28 1978-05-09 Exxon Research & Engineering Co. Riser and yoke mooring system
US4193368A (en) * 1978-01-20 1980-03-18 Chicago Bridge & Iron Company Offshore mooring system for vessel or ship
US4442943A (en) * 1981-11-19 1984-04-17 Triplett James T Floating crane stabilizer
US4480575A (en) * 1982-06-22 1984-11-06 Institut Francais Du Petrole Device for rapidly mooring a floating installation to an anchored marine installation
US4516942A (en) * 1983-03-25 1985-05-14 Sofec, Inc. Tower mounted mooring apparatus
US4530302A (en) * 1983-03-25 1985-07-23 Sofec, Inc. Submerged single point mooring apparatus
US4534740A (en) * 1982-06-09 1985-08-13 Single Buoy Moorings, Inc. System for maintaining a buoyant body in position in relation to another body
US4617000A (en) * 1983-06-21 1986-10-14 Single Buoy Moorings, Inc. Mooring buoy with individually floatable main body and turntable
US20040094082A1 (en) * 2002-11-12 2004-05-20 Fmc Technologies, Inc. Retrieval and connection system for a disconnectable mooring yoke
US20050034644A1 (en) * 2003-08-14 2005-02-17 Max Hamm Apparatus and method for adjusting the elevation and position of a floating body with respect to water level variance

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NL167911C (nl) * 1978-06-20 1982-02-16 Single Buoy Moorings Inrichting voor het overbrengen van een medium vanaf een vast op een onder water gelegen bodem aangebracht orgaan naar een boeilichaam.
FR2442759A1 (fr) * 1978-11-14 1980-06-27 Inst Francais Du Petrole Dispositif d'amarrage d'une installation flottante a une installation marine ancree
FR2549800B1 (fr) * 1983-07-25 1988-02-05 Emh Systeme d'amarrage d'un corps flottant de grandes dimensions

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US2882536A (en) * 1955-12-29 1959-04-21 Harry B Jordan Buoy construction
US3354479A (en) * 1964-12-18 1967-11-28 Shell Oil Co Loading buoy having loading arms
US3442245A (en) * 1968-04-08 1969-05-06 Us Army Rigid arm mooring means

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Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US2882536A (en) * 1955-12-29 1959-04-21 Harry B Jordan Buoy construction
US3354479A (en) * 1964-12-18 1967-11-28 Shell Oil Co Loading buoy having loading arms
US3442245A (en) * 1968-04-08 1969-05-06 Us Army Rigid arm mooring means

Cited By (12)

* Cited by examiner, † Cited by third party
Publication number Priority date Publication date Assignee Title
US4025976A (en) * 1975-02-17 1977-05-31 Ingenieursbureau Marcon (Marine Consultants) B. V. Submarine pivoting structure with ducting
US4088089A (en) * 1975-11-28 1978-05-09 Exxon Research & Engineering Co. Riser and yoke mooring system
US4193368A (en) * 1978-01-20 1980-03-18 Chicago Bridge & Iron Company Offshore mooring system for vessel or ship
US4442943A (en) * 1981-11-19 1984-04-17 Triplett James T Floating crane stabilizer
US4534740A (en) * 1982-06-09 1985-08-13 Single Buoy Moorings, Inc. System for maintaining a buoyant body in position in relation to another body
US4480575A (en) * 1982-06-22 1984-11-06 Institut Francais Du Petrole Device for rapidly mooring a floating installation to an anchored marine installation
US4516942A (en) * 1983-03-25 1985-05-14 Sofec, Inc. Tower mounted mooring apparatus
US4530302A (en) * 1983-03-25 1985-07-23 Sofec, Inc. Submerged single point mooring apparatus
US4617000A (en) * 1983-06-21 1986-10-14 Single Buoy Moorings, Inc. Mooring buoy with individually floatable main body and turntable
US20040094082A1 (en) * 2002-11-12 2004-05-20 Fmc Technologies, Inc. Retrieval and connection system for a disconnectable mooring yoke
US7007623B2 (en) 2002-11-12 2006-03-07 Fmc Technologies, Inc. Retrieval and connection system for a disconnectable mooring yoke
US20050034644A1 (en) * 2003-08-14 2005-02-17 Max Hamm Apparatus and method for adjusting the elevation and position of a floating body with respect to water level variance

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FR2200147A1 (US20100223739A1-20100909-C00005.png) 1974-04-19
JPS606838B2 (ja) 1985-02-20
IT996735B (it) 1975-12-10
JPS49132792A (US20100223739A1-20100909-C00005.png) 1974-12-19
BE805322A (nl) 1974-03-26
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GB1428147A (en) 1976-03-17

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