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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6199684 | Bulk materials loading device Bulk material is fed by a conveyor (10) into a hopper at the upper end of an upright extendible conduit (12). A fractionally opening gate (14) at the lower end of the conduit controls the rate at which the material in the conduit is discharged onto a disc... | 03/13/2001 |
| 5800112 | Loading spout hoist mechanism A loading spout hoist mechanism comprises a multiple monospiral winch drum. The drum is located under the top of the loading spout, and the loading spout passes through it. The multiple monospiral winch drum is supported on two rings, the first of which i... | 09/01/1998 |
| 5613820 | Continuous-operation cargo-transfer equipment A continuous-operation cargo-transfer equipment. It comprises bulk-cargo uptake mechanisms (4a), an upright conveyor-constituted shaft (4), a boom (5) with a conveyor mounted on it that seesaws up and down on a turntable (6), a gantry (10) that travels ba... | 03/25/1997 |
| 5372229 | Device for delivering flowable bulk cargo A device for delivering flowable bulk material having a retractable loading chute (1) consisting of guide cones (2) for flowable material placed coaxially one above the other. In a retracted position of the loading chute (1) the guide cones nest in each o... | 12/13/1994 |
| 5049021 | Self-unloading method and apparatus for ships An unloading marine leg for a self-unloading ship including a bucket conveyor for removing granular material from the hold of a ship, the marine leg including a distal end and a discharge end with the discharge end being pivotally mounted to a carriage on... | 09/17/1991 |
| 4954036 | Variable height silo charge system A device for depositing particulate matter into a storage silo having a system of containers which are alternately filled at the top of said silo and lowered into said silo where the particulate matter is deposited, free falling only a short distance onto... | 09/04/1990 |
| 4946018 | Extensible and retractable chute The present invention is directed to a loading chute which includes a hoist frame adapted to be mounted on a conventional loader conveyor above a bulk material hold of a cargo vessel, for example. A plurality of chute segments are provided and are hingeab... | 08/07/1990 |
| 4548147 | Hopper barge with bottom flaps and a suction channel Hopper barge comprising one or more cargo spaces and a series of discharge openings in the bottom of the hold. Each opening comprises a bottom flap which in the downwards displaced position realizes a connection between the hold through the respective dis... | 10/22/1985 |
| 4502405 | Floating device comprising storage holds for bulk freight, such as a hopper dredge A floating device such as a hopper dredge having bottom valves (4-11) for discharging the holds (2), which holds according to the invention can be closed airtight and are provided with apparatus (18) to generate an overpressure within the holds (2), the b... | 03/05/1985 |
| 4472102 | Loading coal in open hopper barges Problems of spontaneous combustion and acid corrosion in coal carrying open hopper steel barges are significantly reduced by loading a mixture of coal of various particle sizes in the hopper without segregating and isolating groups of particles of differe... | 09/18/1984 |
| 4455778 | System for handling of fishing gears A system for the transfer of a net formed fishing gear to a bin (2) aboard a vessel (1), which in association with a pull means (5) comprises a guide means (6) which is adapted to perform a swinging movement in mutually different planes relatively to the ... | 06/26/1984 |
| 4281767 | Trawler fish-sorting system A fish-sorting apparatus for use on board a fishing vessel of the type including fish-storing bins. The apparatus includes a surface for sorting fish, by category, into different selected ones of the bins, or overboard (for rejected fish), through ports a... | 08/04/1981 |
| 4264003 | Foldable unloading machine having full circle swivelling action The disclosed unloading machine is especially well adapted for unloading bulk materials from ships. The machine swivels around a full circle, to afford maximum coverage to take the bulk material. The illustrated machine comprises an endless bucket train, ... | 04/28/1981 |
| 4235399 | Cargo ramp A cargo ramp configured for stowage on a cargo carrying vessel and deployment between a cargo opening or the outer boundary of a cargo deck and the surface of a cargo handling region such as a runway, dock or pier. The cargo ramp includes two hinged toget... | 11/25/1980 |
| 4111145 | Roll on/off - lift on/off cargo vessel A cargo vessel which can be used in either or both of a roll on/off and a lift on/off mode, provided with a cargo hold which is covered with an inner bottom plating, a second deck, an auxiliary deck, an exposed deck, and having a plurality of transverse f... | 09/05/1978 |
