US 2022/0228342 A1Published application

System for the dradging of underwater sea-beds

OwnerBartolomeo Mongiardinoinventor

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Abstract

A system for dredging underwater sea-beds includes a floating platform; a dredging tool positioned on the platform to face the water and having a system that lowers and lifts the dredging tool, further having at least three connection points associated with the platform to connect the ends of warping cables that are anchored to the shore at the opposite ends, and further having tensioning devices; a sediment collection system that collects sediment captured by the dredging tool; a system detecting the position of the platform; a system detecting the position of the dredging tool; a system detecting seabed configuration; a system detecting the quantity of sediment removed from the seabed; a remote command and control system for the system that lowers and lifts the dredging tool, a tensioning system for the warping cables; a detection system; and a system that supplies the equipment on board of the platform.

Claims16

Dependent claims

A system for dredging an underwater seabed, comprising:

a platform provided with flotation means;
a dredging tool provided on a portion of said platform facing water surface, the dredging tool having means for lowering and lifting the dredging tool, and at least three connection points associated with said platform, the at least three connection points connecting ends of respective warping cables, which are anchored to a shore at opposite ends, the dredging tool further having tensioning means for the warping cables;
sediment collection means for sediment collected by the dredging tool;
means for detecting a position of said platform;
means for detecting a position of said dredging tool;
means for detecting seabed configuration;
means for detecting a quantity of the sediment removed from the seabed;
remote command and control means of said means for lowering and lifting said dredging tool, the tensioning means for the warping cables, and the means for detecting the absolute position of the platform, the position of the dredging tool, the seabed configuration, and the quantity of the sediment removed from the seabed;
and
means for supplying equipment on board the platform.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 17/614,392Filed 27 May 2020
Priority: IT 1020190000078393 Jun 2019
Published: 21 Jul 2022
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification10 codes

E02F 3/8833
With arrangements acting by a sucking or forcing effect, e.g. suction dredgers: floating installations
E02F 9/262
Surveying the work-site to be treated: with follow-up actions to control the work tool, e.g. controller
E02F 3/907
Component parts , e.g. arrangement or adaptation of pumps: measuring or control devices, e.g. control units, detection means or sensors
E02F 3/9243
Digging elements, e.g. suction heads: passive suction heads with no mechanical cutting means