Floating body
OwnerGerhard Wippermanninventor
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Abstract
The invention relates to a floating body, especially a floating body used as a support for an underwater tunnel (11). In order to obtain a high degree of freedom and a large amount of stability while at the same time guaranteeing easy assembly, a frame structure (49) is provided in the form of a horizontal grating, wherein floats, ballast bodies, dam chambers or similar useful hollow bodies (50) are fixed in the rectangular, especially quadratic free areas of said grating as tanks.
Claims32
A floating body, in particular as a carrier of an underwater tunnel (11), characterized by a flexurally rigid supporting framework (34, 49) in the form of a horizontal grid, in the rectangular, in particular square grid open spaces (51, 52, 53) of which hollow bodies (31, 50), which can be used as tanks, buoyancy bodies, ballast bodies, storage chambers or the like, are secured.
The floating body according to one or more of the preceding claims or in particular according thereto, characterized in that the tunnel (11) has a transparent floor (12).
The floating body according to one or more of the preceding claims or in particular according thereto, characterized in that the tunnel wall as a whole is see-through.
The floating body according to one or more of the preceding claims or in particular according thereto, characterized in that tunnel (11) is approximately 10 m long.
The floating body according to one or more of the preceding claims or in particular according thereto, characterized in that at least the area of the companionway (6, 7) which lies below the water line (W) consists of see-through plastics.
The floating body according to one or more of the preceding claims or in particular according thereto, characterized in that the companionways (6, 7) are equipped with spiral staircases (21), in particular made from see-through plastics.
The floating body according to one or more of the preceding claims or in particular according thereto, characterized by a ballast body (22) disposed in the center of the tunnel.
The floating body according to one or more of the preceding claims or in particular according thereto, characterized in that the ballast body (22) is an island disposed on the tunnel (11).
The floating body according to one or more of the preceding claims or in particular according thereto, characterized in that the companionways (6, 7) have cabins (24, 25) built above them.
The floating body according to one or more of the preceding claims or in particular according thereto, characterized by buoyancy bodies (31, 42, 50) which extend virtually along the entire frame periphery.
The floating body according to one or more of the preceding claims or in particular according thereto, characterized in that the ballast tanks (32, 44) are hollow bodies on the inner side of the frame.
The floating body according to one or more of the preceding claims or in particular according thereto, characterized in that the ballast tanks (32, 44, 50) are individual hollow plastics bodies.
The floating body according to one or more of the preceding claims or in particular according thereto, characterized by buoyancy chambers (33) which are flap-closed at the top side.
The floating body according to one or more of the preceding claims or in particular according thereto, characterized in that the floating body (1, 1″) has a dismantleable framework (34, 49) comprising carriers.
The floating body according to one or more of the preceding claims or in particular according thereto, characterized in that horizontally running carriers (35) carry the ballast tanks (32).
The floating body according to one or more of the preceding claims or in particular according thereto, characterized in that the ballast tanks (32) are disposed parallel to the direction in which the tunnel extends, adjacent to the companionways (6, 7).
The floating body according to one or more of the preceding claims or in particular according thereto, characterized by a net (39) which is laid around the floating body (1), extends as far as the seabed or is closed at the bottom side.
The floating body according to one or more of the preceding claims or in particular according thereto, characterized by platforms fitted to the outer sides of the frame sections (2 to 5).
The floating body according to one or more of the preceding claims or in particular according thereto, characterized in that the entire floating body (1, 1″), in the dismantled state, finds space to be accommodated in a plurality of 40-foot containers.
The floating body according to one or more of the preceding claims or in particular according thereto, characterized in that the individual elements (42, 43, 44, 50) consist of plastics and are made using the rotational process.
The floating body according to one or more of the preceding claims or in particular according thereto, characterized in that individual elements which are of the same shape form different functional elements, for example foamed buoyancy bodies (42), fillable ballast tanks (44) or storage spaces (43) provided with a flap.
The floating body according to one or more of the preceding claims or in particular according thereto, characterized in that the edge-side individual elements (42) form a breakwater bead (47) and, below it, a wave-rolling niche (48).
The floating body according to one or more of the preceding claims or in particular according thereto, characterized in that the grid webs which border the open grid spaces (51, 52, 53, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63) have upper and lower struts (54, 55) which are spaced apart from and parallel to one another, the spacing position of which is defined by vertical struts (57) associated with the grid crossing points (56) and which are reinforced by means of diagonal struts (58).
The floating body according to one or more of the preceding claims or in particular according thereto, characterized in that the grid webs which adjoin the companionways (6, 7) and the grid webs which delimit the area of open water (F) consist of steel, in particular stainless steel, and the peripheral grid webs consist of fiberglass.
The floating body according to one or more of the preceding claims or in particular according thereto, characterized in that the square open grid spaces (51) each accommodate two hollow bodies (50).
The floating body according to one or more of the preceding claims or in particular according thereto, characterized in that the tunnel (11) and the companionways (6, 7) are each see-through planked frame structures.
The floating body according to one or more of the preceding claims or in particular according thereto, characterized in that the companionways (6, 7) each use two laterally protruding bearing journals (67) to divert the buoyancy forces into yokes (68) of the supporting framework (49) which are associated with the bearing journals (67).
The floating body according to one or more of the preceding claims or in particular according thereto, characterized in that the area of open water (F) can be covered by boards (70).
The floating body according to one or more of the preceding claims or in particular according thereto, characterized in that the boards (70) are supported by carriers (71, 72) which are stored below the edges of the frame and can be displaced over the area of open water (F).
The floating body according to one or more of the preceding claims or in particular according thereto, characterized in that the carriers (71, 72) roll over edge-side rails (74) by means of rolls (73) disposed at their ends.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.