EP3725665A1 - Vorrichtung zum vertäuen von schwimmenden oberflächenanlagen, und entsprechendes verfahren - Google Patents

Vorrichtung zum vertäuen von schwimmenden oberflächenanlagen, und entsprechendes verfahren Download PDF

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EP3725665A1
EP3725665A1 EP19169516.2A EP19169516A EP3725665A1 EP 3725665 A1 EP3725665 A1 EP 3725665A1 EP 19169516 A EP19169516 A EP 19169516A EP 3725665 A1 EP3725665 A1 EP 3725665A1
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mooring device
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Lionel Péan
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Priority to MA055707A priority patent/MA55707A/fr
Priority to PCT/EP2020/060617 priority patent/WO2020212440A1/fr
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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 
    • B63B21/00—Tying-up; Shifting, towing, or pushing equipment; Anchoring
    • B63B21/50—Anchoring arrangements or methods for special vessels, e.g. for floating drilling platforms or dredgers
    • 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 
    • B63B21/00—Tying-up; Shifting, towing, or pushing equipment; Anchoring
    • B63B21/50—Anchoring arrangements or methods for special vessels, e.g. for floating drilling platforms or dredgers
    • B63B2021/501—Anchoring arrangements or methods for special vessels, e.g. for floating drilling platforms or dredgers by means of articulated towers, i.e. slender substantially vertically arranged structures articulated near the sea bed

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  • the invention relates to a device for mooring and anchoring a platform or a surface object on a body of water capable of allowing its positioning, its stability and its securing.
  • the invention also relates to a method for mooring a platform or a surface object on a body of water using the mooring and anchoring device according to the invention.
  • the population density is exponential and the water levels of the oceans and terrestrial water bodies are constantly rising. In 100 years the world population will increase from 7 to 11 billion people on earth. The consequences affect both terrestrial habitat and sea-related activities.
  • the object of the present invention is in particular to overcome the problems and meet the needs mentioned above.
  • the invention aims to provide a device for mooring a platform or a surface object on a body of water comprising a sliding element intended to cooperate with a cylinder equipped with a double wall containing air, said mooring device being able to maintain the platform or surface object substantially parallel to the body of water and to damp its oscillations when said platform or said surface object is subjected to physical constraints such as the swell, tides, the effects of surges, currents, flood and / or wind.
  • the sliding element of the mooring device according to the invention is intended to slide in the cylinder equipped with a double wall of complementary shape.
  • the sliding element preferably comprises a load distribution piston.
  • the mooring device according to the invention can also include anchoring means intended to cooperate with receiving means provided at the bottom of a body of water, for example using shackles.
  • one of the anchoring means is able to hold the device vertically and is intended for the platform or the surface object to be able to move and remain substantially parallel to the body of water when said plane water is agitated for example under the effects of swell, currents, tidal range and / or under the effect of the wind.
  • the mooring device according to the invention may further comprise anchoring means for connection to the platform or to the surface object comprising a spherical assembly and / or a longitudinal assembly fixed to the upper end of the element. sliding door and cylinder fitted with a double wall.
  • the spherical assembly and / or the longitudinal assembly is intended to ensure the free movement of the platform or of the surface object and / or its rotation.
  • the spherical assembly can be Teflon coated and fitted with in-line lubricators.
  • the longitudinal assembly may include a series of swivels and shackles.
  • the mooring device according to the invention can also comprise means of reversibility and / or of removability and / or of self-propulsion.
  • the platform or surface object is by its design reversible, transposable and transportable.
  • the present invention also relates to a device for the shock attenuation of a platform or of a surface object on a body of water, characterized in that it comprises a mooring device according to the invention as described. above.
  • the present invention also relates to the use of a sliding element intended to cooperate with a cylinder equipped with a double wall containing air in a device for mooring a platform or a surface object. on a body of water in order to damp and / or reduce the oscillations of said platform or of said surface object by compressing the air present in the cylinder.
  • the present invention is based on a completely innovative approach which consists in providing, for a body of water, that a platform or a surface object be mounted or moored on a sliding element associated with a cylinder. equipped with a double wall, which can also be defined as a pod or a piston device which is able to slide, oscillate and / or rotate, by means of which said platform or said surface object is moored or anchored to the bottom of the body of water.
  • the mooring device according to the invention is intended to be installed in a body of water such as an open or closed sea, a cove, a port, a lake, a water reserve, etc.
  • a body of water such as an open or closed sea, a cove, a port, a lake, a water reserve, etc.
  • Such a device is suitable for any type of body of water including those subject to a large amplitude depending on the height of the water and the planned tidal range.
  • the presence of the pod or piston device (4-8) allows the device to ensure the absorption of the forces subjected to the platform or the surface object such as the forces linked to the effects of wind, swell, currents, surges and tides, flooding and / or rising water levels.
  • surface platform or object is understood to mean any surface or floating device or installation such as, for example, a dwelling, a floating villa, a platform or leisure station or station for seaside, nautical, commercial, industrial, technical, transport, security, beaconing, or even relay.
  • the present invention also aims to provide a mooring method which is particularly simple and easy to implement and reversible, and whose implementation does not have a negative impact on the environment or at least a comparatively limited impact. to the techniques of the prior art.
  • the present invention makes it possible to preserve the bottoms of the bodies of water in which it is implemented and is specific to floating or surface installations.
  • the present invention aims to ensure that the floating or surface installation to be moored is substantially parallel to the body of water and totally emerged.
  • the mooring device according to the invention preferably comprises anchoring means (1, 2, 3) intended to cooperate with reception means provided at the bottom of a body of water.
  • anchoring means (1, 2, 3) such as shackles make it possible to preserve the bottoms of the body of water to the extent that the mooring device does not come into contact with or scrape the bottoms sailors.
  • the mooring device according to the invention makes it possible to preserve the seabed and to significantly reduce the impact of the implementation of anchoring, mooring and / or ballasting on the fauna and flora.
  • the mooring device according to the invention also preferably comprises anchoring means for connection to the platform or to the surface object comprising a spherical assembly (14-18) and / or a longitudinal assembly (9-12 ) which are attached to the upper end of the sliding element (4, 6, 7, 8) associated with the cylinder equipped with a double wall (5).
  • the spherical assembly (14-18) and the longitudinal assembly (9-12) constitute rotation devices which ensure the free movement of the platform or the surface object (20) and its rotation.
  • connecting anchoring means makes it possible to limit the oscillation, overturning and submersion of surface installations while ensuring their stability. They also make it possible to improve the behavior of surface installations whatever the surrounding meteorological and oceanographic conditions.
  • Another objective of the present invention is to allow the mooring device according to the invention to allow the gyration of the surface installation to be free and thus to reduce its avoidance.
  • the system makes it possible to reduce the avoidance of the surface installation and consequently its useful avoidance surface by 20 to 50%, depending on the surface installation.
  • the mooring device according to the invention also constitutes reversible and removable equipment, not permanently fixed to the bottom of the water, and intended to allow the mooring of all kinds of surface installations.
  • the mooring device according to the invention can for example be, in the case of summer or ephemeral surface installations, set up in the summer, that is to say during periods of high traffic during which nautical and seaside activities are very important on the waterways, and withdrawn in winter.
  • Such a device can moor any type of floating surface installations, whether they are homes, commercial or leisure platforms.
  • a spherical assembly which comprises an outer cage (18) making it possible to attach the surface installation to a spherical device (15-17) in order to ensure the principles of rotation, oscillation and horizontal maintenance of the said floating installation on the surface of a body of water.
  • the outer cage is intended to receive the surface installation and the spherical device, said spherical device comprising a ball joint (15) assembled to a joint (16) and to a half-shell (17), the whole being secured to a side to a solid plate (14) and the other side to a metal cage (18) serving as a connecting element with the platform or surface object (20).
  • the half-shell (17) is preferably made of rubber of EPDM type (ethylene-propylene-diene monomer).
  • the rotation is performed via a longitudinal assembly which comprises a system of nuts (11) and shackles (10) distributed on either side of a swivel (12), the whole being secured from one side to one solid plate (9) and on the other side to a connecting piece (13) with the platform or the surface object (20).
  • the surface installation is moored on one of the two rotation devices which is itself fixed to a sliding and / or piston device (4-8) through which the installation on the surface of the body of water (20) is anchored to the bottom of the body of water as shown in Figure 6 .
  • the spherical assembly is preferably secured to the sliding and / or piston device (4-8) by means of a flange and bolts.
  • This sliding and / or piston device comprises a sliding element (4, 6, 7 and 8) intended to cooperate with a cylinder equipped with a double wall (5) serving as a reservoir. of air.
  • the sliding element consists of several tubes (4, 8), a ring (6) and a load distribution piston (7) as detailed in the Figure 1 .
  • Said sliding and / or piston device makes it possible to take up the forces linked to the dynamic load induced on the surface installation by the swell, the tide, the effects of surges, the current, the flood and / or the wind and therefore maintain the vertical mooring device and simply limit its oscillation.
  • the sliding and / or piston device is secured by its lower end to anchoring means (1, 2, 3) which in this embodiment comprise an articulation secured, itself, to an ecological anchoring system (19 ) able to cooperate with reception means provided at the bottom of a body of water.
  • anchoring means (1, 2, 3) are adapted and calibrated according to the floating surface installation and include a structure articulated on an ecological anchoring system (19) adapted to the intrinsic nature of the bottom of the body of water and the nature of the biotope present.
  • receiving means provided at the bottom of the body of water
  • the anchoring means (1, 3) at the bottom of the body of water are provided with equipment for monitoring and controlling the environment.
  • the equipment for monitoring and controlling the medium is attached to the cylinder equipped with a double wall (5).
  • the mooring device according to the invention provides several advantages.
  • it makes it possible to limit the impact on the natural environment by making it possible to avoid the scraping of funds and the control of the reception process while ensuring the protection of our coastline by avoiding the destructive effects on the protected species which ensure the maintenance. and the development of the marine biotope.
  • It ensures the stability of the surface floating installation at an attachment point regardless of the natural physical conditions impacting the body of water such as the effects of swell, wind, current and / or tidal range.
  • It makes it possible to control and ensure the maintenance at one point of the floating installation on a body of water and to ensure the protection of people and property in the event of flooding and / or tidal range regardless of its depth. 'installation.
  • It makes it possible to control, while reducing it by at least 4 times, the avoidance surface of a floating surface installation.
  • It also makes it possible to manage an environment monitoring system by installing monitoring devices.

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EP19169516.2A 2019-04-16 2019-04-16 Vorrichtung zum vertäuen von schwimmenden oberflächenanlagen, und entsprechendes verfahren Withdrawn EP3725665A1 (de)

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EP19169516.2A EP3725665A1 (de) 2019-04-16 2019-04-16 Vorrichtung zum vertäuen von schwimmenden oberflächenanlagen, und entsprechendes verfahren
EP20717894.8A EP3956208A1 (de) 2019-04-16 2020-04-15 Vorrichtung zum vertäuen von schwimmenden oberflächeneinheiten, entsprechendes verfahren zum installieren und kalibrieren derselben
MA055707A MA55707A (fr) 2019-04-16 2020-04-15 Dispositif d'amarrage d'installations flottantes de surface, procede d'installation et procede de calibrage du dispositif correspondants
PCT/EP2020/060617 WO2020212440A1 (fr) 2019-04-16 2020-04-15 Dispositif d'amarrage d'installations flottantes de surface, procede d'installation et procede de calibrage du dispositif correspondants

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EP0147176A2 (de) * 1983-12-23 1985-07-03 Robert Walter Brewerton Bewegungskompensatoren
US20170350083A1 (en) * 2014-11-14 2017-12-07 Dual Docker Gmbh Device for securing floating bodies
FR3066753A1 (fr) * 2017-05-29 2018-11-30 Etm Tige d'amarrage d'une bouee d'amarrage

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