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EP0104983A1
EP0104983A1 EP83401761A EP83401761A EP0104983A1 EP 0104983 A1 EP0104983 A1 EP 0104983A1 EP 83401761 A EP83401761 A EP 83401761A EP 83401761 A EP83401761 A EP 83401761A EP 0104983 A1 EP0104983 A1 EP 0104983A1
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Xavier Peyre
Jean-Pierre Manesse
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Plastibenne A Responsabilite Dite Ltee Ste
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B66—HOISTING; LIFTING; HAULING
    • B66C—CRANES; LOAD-ENGAGING ELEMENTS OR DEVICES FOR CRANES, CAPSTANS, WINCHES, OR TACKLES
    • B66C13/00—Other constructional features or details
    • B66C13/02—Devices for facilitating retrieval of floating objects, e.g. for recovering crafts from water
    • 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
    • B63B27/16—Arrangement of ship-based loading or unloading equipment for cargo or passengers of lifts or hoists
    • 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
    • B63B27/30—Arrangement of ship-based loading or unloading equipment for transfer at sea between ships or between ships and off-shore structures
    • 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
    • Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
    • Y10S—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10S254/00—Implements or apparatus for applying pushing or pulling force
    • Y10S254/90—Cable pulling drum having wave motion responsive actuator for operating drive or rotation retarding means

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  • the present invention relates to a nacelle which in a first application allows the transfer of a load and in particular of personnel between a fixed or mobile structure and a structure subjected to pounding movements and which in a second application can be used as a bell stable suspension diving.
  • the invention applies in particular in the petroleum industry for transferring personnel from an offshore platform to a boat and vice versa.
  • a ratchet system allows the rotation in one direction of either of the winches to be controlled on command.
  • the pawl of a winch is not in the blocking position it allows the rotation of the corresponding winch in both directions which allows it to wind and unwind at the rate of the swell.
  • Belgian patent n ° 864 814 describes a device for stably hanging a load under a boat, however in this device said boat necessarily includes special arrangements which obligatorily link it to said load which does not allow the load, for example a diving bell, to be suspended from any boat.
  • the present invention aims to overcome these drawbacks and relates to a nacelle characterized in that it comprises at least one cable, the upper end of which exits above the nacelle and the lower end of which exits below the nacelle, means allowing the nacelle to go up or down along the cable when the upper end of the cable is hooked to a hooking member, means making it possible to subject the upper part of the cable to a tension greater than the weight of the nacelle when the lower part of the cable is fixed to an anchoring point, said tensioning means allowing a variation of the distance between said hooking member of the upper end of the cable and the nacelle and means allowing, on command, to act on said tensioning means so that the distance between the hooking member of the upper end of the cable and the nacelle can no longer be shortened without prohibiting its extension is lying.
  • said means making it possible to subject the upper part of the cable to a tension greater than the weight of the cabin and allowing a variation in the distance between the hooking member and the nacelle and the means making it possible, on command, to ensure that that this distance can no longer be shortened comprises a hydraulic cylinder comprising at each end a pulley on which is hauled said cable, the jack being connected to a pressurized gas accumulator comprising a free piston via a pipe comprising a valve making it possible to open or close said pipe, this pipe being provided with a parallel pipe comprising a non-return valve in the accumulator direction towards the cylinder.
  • the invention applies in particular to the transfer of charge between a fixed or mobile structure and a structure subjected to pounding movements, characterized in that the lower end of the cable is hooked by means of a release hook rigid at the landing place provided on the structure subjected to pounding movements, the upper end of the cable being hooked to the hook of a crane located on the fixed or mobile structure.
  • the invention also applies as a diving bell with stable suspension, the lower part of the cable being attached to the bottom of the sea and the upper part of the cable being attached to an assembly which pounds.
  • FIG. 1 there is a platform 1 and a boat 2 which provides personnel transport from the coast to the platform.
  • the transfer from the boat 2 to the platform 1 or vice versa is carried out by means of a nacelle 3 which is suspended from the hook 4 of a crane 5 located on the platform.
  • the principle of the invention consists in raising or lowering, according to the direction of transfer, the nacelle along a cable 6 by means of a motor located in the nacelle, the upper end of the cable being attached to the hook 4 of the crane 5 and the lower end 7 of the cable being attached by means of a quick-release hook 8 to the deck of the boat 2, the nacelle 3 comprising means, described below with reference to FIG. 3 , allowing, when the hook 8 is hooked to the deck of the boat to ensure that the nacelle follows the movements of the swell, and allowing by unhooking the hook 8 when the cable is relaxed between the nacelle and the deck of the boat to separate the boat movement nacelle.
  • Such a principle can be illustrated by means of a cabin gripped by a cable which passes through it, the cabin comprising means of hoisting along the cable, the lower end of the cable being hooked to the deck of a boat by means of 'quick release hooking, and the upper end of the cable passing on a pulley, suspended from the crane hook, and comprising a heavier counterweight than the cabin, means being provided to block the descent of the counterweight a few moments before to unhook the boat deck cable during any phase of the boat on the swell.
  • FIG. 3 shows a particular preferential mechanism making it possible to obtain the same result but in which the counterweight is replaced by a more realistic hydropneumatic system.
  • the cable 6 is muffled around a hydraulic cylinder 9, provided at each of its ends with a pulley 23, 24, connected to a compressed gas accumulator 10, and passes through a winch 11 with an endless cable.
  • this winch cannot move under the sole action of the cable which itself cannot slide relative to the winch.
  • this winch is obviously located between the lower end 7 of the cable 6 and the jack 9.
  • the hydraulic circuit includes a quarter-turn valve 12 and in series a flow control valve 13. In parallel on these two members is placed a non-return valve 14 preventing the passage of oil in the accumulator direction towards the cylinder and in parallel on the flow valve 12 is placed a safety valve 15.
  • the accumulator 10 comprises a free piston 16 separating the pressurized gas contained in the accumulator above the piston 16, oil filling the cylinder and the hydraulic circuit described above.
  • Figure 2 shows in cutaway perspective a nacelle containing all the organs of the device shown in Figure 3. This device is located in the central part of the nacelle inside a cylinder 17 enclosing the entire mechanism.
  • the nacelle 3 rests on the deck of the boat, the lower part of the cable 6, under the nacelle, is attached, by means of the quick-release hook 8, to the deck of the boat and it is stretched.
  • This hook can be self-releasing due to lack of tension and can be hung on the cable 6 by a damping device.
  • the boat is placed appreciably under the hook of the crane.
  • the crew hooks on the hook 4 of the crane 5 the upper end of the cable 6 exiting from above the nacelle.
  • the valve 12 is open, that is to say at 90 ° from the position shown in FIG. 3.
  • the rod 20 of the jack 9 is extended and the piston 16 of the accumulator 10 is in the low position.
  • the crane operator then lifts the hook 4 of his crane so as to energize the cable 6.
  • the nacelle then climbs along the cable 6 adding its ascent movement to the pounding movement of the boat, the rod 20 of the jack re-entering and exiting at the rate waves: it enters under the action of the traction of the portion of cable located under the nacelle and hung on the deck of the boat in the periods of trough of wave and it leaves under the action of the pressure of the gas of the accumulator 10 during rise periods.
  • the valve 12 is closed at any time, which can be easily executed automatically, for example by a cam.
  • slack is created in the portion of cable 6 located between the deck of the boat and the nacelle, since the rod 20 of the jack can no longer come out under the action of the pressure of the accumulator 20 since the pipe 21 comprises a non-return valve 14 and that the pipe 22 is closed by the valve 12.
  • the crew then detaches the hook 8 and the crane operator then takes the cabin to the platform 1.
  • the flow control valve 13 allows, by limiting the oil flow to attenuate the ascent rate of the nacelle 3 at the time of opening of the valve 12, this flow control valve 13 is bypassed by a safety valve 15.
  • the winch 11 can be driven by a thermal, electric or other system. Power can be supplied by cable from the boat. This cable is hooked and unhooked at the same time as the cable 6 by the hook 8. The current can also be supplied by an accumulator placed in the luggage compartment.
  • the winch can be, for example, that sold under the name LIFTO by the company LAHO and the hook 8 is, for example, a hook with rapid release at a distance, of the national marine type.
  • the system according to the invention brings many advantages: smooth arrival and departure of the nacelle of the boat, the nacelle then passes, also smoothly, from its attachment to a first mobile structure, to a second fixed or also mobile structure; the crew, the crane operator and the passengers only have to carry out ordinary maneuvers which they already know perfectly.
  • the device can be used from any structure equipped with a sufficient crane and on any side of the structure. Obviously the stroke of the cylinders is calculated so as to be greater than the sum of the maximum envisaged stroke of the two structures.
  • the nacelle according to the invention can also be used as a diving pole ensuring a stable suspension as shown in FIG. 4: the end 7 of the cable 6 is fixed to the bottom of the sea to a body dead 30 and the hook 4 is linked to a pounding assembly such as a ship 31.
  • the nacelle can be raised in a well 32 of the boat.
  • the lower end 7 of the cable 6 can be detached from the dead body 30.

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FR8215164 1982-09-07
FR8215164A FR2532612A1 (fr) 1982-09-07 1982-09-07 Dispositif pour le transfert de personnel entre une structure fixe ou mobile et une structure soumise a des mouvements de pilonnement

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GB2290524B (en) * 1993-03-13 1997-03-12 Philip Anton Strong A transfer system
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