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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4452163 | Articulated coach coupling means An arrangement consisting of coupling elements allowing both pitch and yaw pivotal motion between two coupled modules or coaches, is disclosed. A transverse rod located at the end portion of one module is rigidly secured to a pair of arms and is supported... | 06/05/1984 |
| 4426949 | Method for making elongate cast construction on the sea Floating dock for making elongate, cast concrete constructions by producing in sequence sections of the construction in a drainable work chamber. The dock has a base and a pair of permanent upstanding sides facing inwardly towards each other provided with... | 01/24/1984 |
| 4407214 | Non-roll tug-and-barge linkage An apparatus is disclosed for coupling first and second vessels wherein the apparatus minimizes roll of one vessel relative to the other while permitting freedom of movement for pitching and heaving of one vessel relative to the other. The apparatus compr... | 10/04/1983 |
| 4398484 | Arrangement for installing a nuclear reactor block in a vessel The invention relates to a method and an assembly for a equipping vessel propelled by nuclear power. In accordance with the invention, a vessel is made in two prefabricated parts (2,3) and a chamber (5) is provided in the part (2). A nuclear reactor block... | 08/16/1983 |
| 4356784 | Integrated tug-barge vessel The integrated tug-barge vessel consists of a separable barge and tug; the stern of the barge is formed of a pair of rearwardly extending projections defining a notch therebetween; the inside wall of each stern projection displays a buttress that engages ... | 11/02/1982 |
| 4348282 | Oil-collecting ship An oil-collecting ship having two floating bodies which can be spread apart and which are hinged together at their rearward ends. Each of the floating bodies is a stable ship's body half. The two halves are provided with oil suction devices for picking up... | 09/07/1982 |
| 4341175 | Shipbuilding method and complex A shipbuilding complex having a dry dock with a dock adjacent area, and a flooding chamber which is adjacent to the head of the dry dock and communicates therewith. An intermediate gate divides the dry dock into a main part which is adjacent to the water ... | 07/27/1982 |
| 4318361 | Lightweight concrete marine float and method of constructing same A lightweight concrete float having a concrete shell surrounding either a hollow or buoyant foam core. The shell includes a deck surrounded by integrally formed, downwardly projecting side walls of sturdy but relatively heavy standard aggregate concrete a... | 03/09/1982 |
| 4286535 | Ship for lighter-than-water fluids A ship has a plurality of open-top recesses in the deck thereof in which substantially fluid-tight, relatively light-weight, buoyant containers are held solely by the force of gravity and by frictional forces. Those containers substantially fill those rec... | 09/01/1981 |
| 4286538 | Multipurpose floating structure A multipurpose floating structure comprises a large number of flotation units joined together in a regular reticulated pattern in one or more horizontal tiers, each flotation unit comprising: a square plate; a watertight can structure of inverted conical ... | 09/01/1981 |
| 4276847 | Method for assembling hulls of vessels The invention is concerned with a method for assembling hulls of vessels intended to carry bulk, liquid and gas cargo and comprising an aft end, a parallel middlebody and a fore end. The building berth comprises a main site composed of a rear area and fro... | 07/07/1981 |
| 4267789 | Method of assembling middle body of a vessel hull A method of assembling middle bodies of vessel hulls for vessels to be used for the transportation of liquid, granular and gaseous cargoes, comprising preliminarily installing, between starboard side and port side D-type modules of the middle body, a deck... | 05/19/1981 |
| 4256049 | Device for assembling floating box caissons A device for assembling and locking floating box caissons, which includes, on the caissons faces to be assembled, a pre-locking system disposed at the corners of the caisson and comprising a lock-type male system on one caisson, and a hook-type female sys... | 03/17/1981 |
| 4236474 | Boats A boat which includes a hull body. The hull body includes a floor; two longitudinal walls and two end walls, each wall having a top face, the walls being joined together at their meeting ends into a substantially rectangular shape, and also are joined to ... | 12/02/1980 |
| 4223623 | Hinged floating caissons and unfolding devices therefor A hinged floating box caisson structure includes a central caisson, a pair of lateral caissons and a pair of end ballasts, these elements are adapted, when in a transport position, to be folded on one another. A system for straightening the end ballasts a... | 09/23/1980 |
| 4207827 | System, tooling and method of construction of cryogenic tanks for LNG tankers and for LNG storage Prefabricated rigid insulating panels of great length, made of a fiberglass reinforced prestressed foam enclosed in a gas tight envelope and covered on their inner face by a folded metal membrane are glued directly to the cavity walls of the load bearing ... | 06/17/1980 |
| 4155322 | Apparatus for use in the jointing of floating ship sections There is provided a floating caisson device for placing below and transversely to the bottom of a vessel hull in engagement with the lower portions of the hull side walls for providing a dry working space, especially for joining floating hull sections by ... | 05/22/1979 |
| 4085693 | Mechanical locking device for a longitudinally split bottom dump barge In a longitudinally split bottom dump barge which is opened and closed by rotation of the two longitudinal halves of the barge relative to each other about a longitudinal axis on the top side of the barge by hydraulic pistons, a mechanical device for lock... | 04/25/1978 |
| 4060048 | Mechanical couplings for pontoons and similar floatable units A mechanical coupling for connecting together two buoyant members, such as pontoons, to make a buoyant structure. The mechanical coupling comprises vertical grooves in the pontoons. A pair of spaced apart plates partially cover the edge of the grooves. A ... | 11/29/1977 |
| 4051796 | Method of breaking up ship hull The present invention is characterized by cutting and breaking up a hull of large ship in the floating situation on the sea so as to shorten the length of the hull, transporting the broken up objects to a product making workshop, and subdividing said obje... | 10/04/1977 |
| 4050395 | Articulated hull construction A boat hull is provided including fore and aft hull sections pivotally interconnected for relative angular displacement of said sections about a horizontal transverse axis between predetermined limits. Connecting structure is provided and interconnected b... | 09/27/1977 |
| 4041721 | Vessel having natural gas liquefaction capabilities There is disclosed a vessel having natural gas liquefaction capabilities formed of a plurality of self-contained liquefaction assemblies, each of which being disposed in a separate liquefaction compartment.... | 08/16/1977 |
| 4013032 | Ocean going push-towing combination A marine transportation combination including a first vessel and a second vessel, the second vessel having a notch or slip for receiving the first vessel, the respective vessels being mated together by three individual couplings, two of which are located ... | 03/22/1977 |
| 4000712 | Boat hull construction A boat comprising a main hull and an additional hull that is attached to the stern of the main hull. The additional hull is adjustable around a transversal axis relative to the main hull and acts as a trim plane. The bottom and sides of the main hull have... | 01/04/1977 |
| 3983830 | Method and apparatus for assembly of a modular barge A method of and apparatus for the construction of a modular barge is provided wherein individual floatation modules are assembled and secured one to another by the positioning and linking of separable alignment pins therebetween and the threading of tensi... | 10/05/1976 |
| 3965513 | Sectional boat structures A boat structure having interconnected front and rear body sections, said body sections being provided at mating end portions thereof with substantially U-shaped abutting peripheral edges which are in abutting engagement with each other when the body sect... | 06/29/1976 |
| 3955523 | Method of continuously building ships A method of building ships wherein a middle building area whose ends may be bounded by means of a pair of detachable partition gates is provided inside an openends type dock, whereby after a stern body of each ship has been constructed in the middle build... | 05/11/1976 |
| 3954078 | Method of connecting adjacent units of a barge tow Connecting adjacent units of a tow with rigid loosely interlocking connections and preloading the connections beyond the limit of expected tow loads for any inland waterway conditions to be encountered. Preloading is accomplished by inflating hollow cushi... | 05/04/1976 |
| 3951088 | Building equipment for ships' hulls Building equipment for a hull comprising a hull joining stage having a bottom surface level flush with the ground level of the site; a stern building stage having a bottom surface level flush with that of the hull joining stage, provided at a longitudinal... | 04/20/1976 |
| 3942460 | Ship hull and a method of assembling the same In most ships or other marine vessels the hull has a double bottom, hull sides and at least one deck. The hull of the invention has at least two fore-and-aft arranged hollow cylinders with considerable buoyancy and constituting an integral part of the dou... | 03/09/1976 |
| 3942459 | Method of constructing low temperature liquefied gas tanker ships A method of constructing low temperature liquefied gas tanker ships equipped with containers made of low temperature resisting material, the containers each being positioned in a hold space defined by the inner wall of a hull and a bulkhead with interposi... | 03/09/1976 |
| 3938459 | Minesweeper A simulated marine vehicle is disclosed as being a sweeper of acoustic, psure, and magnetic energy responsive mines. It includes an exceedingly lightweight, substantially unsinkable hull composed of a plurality of air foam plastic compartments tandemly c... | 02/17/1976 |
| 3933115 | Spherical rolling hull marine vessel A marine vessel with a spherical rolling hull having a rotatably mounted shaft disposed through the horizontal poles of the sphere. A frame assembly is rigidly fixed to the shaft on the interior of the sphere for carrying a propulsion apparatus and cargo.... | 01/20/1976 |