Gangplank safety deployment system
AssigneeModalinta Pte Limited
InventorsDavid Robin BEAN, Alexander David Fencke BEAN
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Abstract
A safety netting assembly for a gangplank; the gangplank being deployable between a vessel and a quay; the assembly includes stanchions pivotally connected with railings at an upper end and pivotally interconnected with a beam structure of the gangplank at a lower end; the railings being movable between a stowed position in which the railings are located adjacent to a surface of the gangplank, and a deployed position in which the railings are located at a distance vertically above the gangplank surface, and safety netting.
Claims18
1-22. (canceled)
A safety netting assembly for a gangplank;
- the gangplank being deployable between a vessel and a quay;
- the assembly including:
- stanchions pivotally connected with railings at an upper end and pivotally interconnected with a beam structure of the gangplank at a lower end;
- the railings being movable between a stowed position in which the railings are located adjacent to a surface of the gangplank, and a deployed position in which the railings are located at a distance vertically above the gangplank surface, and safety netting.
A method of deploying railings and safety netting on a gangplank;
- the method including the steps of:
- lowering the gangplank from a stowed position towards a quay,
- pulling the railings longitudinally relative the gangplank surface to rotate stanchions from a stowed position into a raised position normal to the gangplank surface, securing the railings in the raised position, and
- wherein the rotation of the stanchions brings the safety netting into a deployed position in which the safety netting substantially fills space between the gangplank and the railings.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.