US 2025/0100654 A1 · Marine Gangway and a Marine Structure Comprising Such a Marine Gangway

Abstract

A marine gangway has a tower adapted for attachment to a marine structure, rotatably about a tower rotational axis extending in a longitudinal direction of the tower. The tower has a tower aperture and at least one tower doorway arranged below and/or above the tower aperture where the tower aperture and the at least one tower doorway is adapted for people and/or goods to pass through. The marine gangway includes a gangway device comprising a gangway platform attached to the tower movably in the longitudinal direction of the tower, and a gangway rotatably attached to the gangway platform. The marine gangway further comprises a lift arranged inside the tower movable in the longitudinal direction of the tower. The lift has a lift doorway adapted to align with the tower aperture and with the at least one tower doorway as the lift moves in the longitudinal direction of the tower.

Claims21

Dependent claims

1-21. (canceled)

A marine gangway (18), comprising:

a tower (20) comprising a main bearing (15) and being configured to be rotatably mounted to a deck (11, 12, 13) of a ship (10) via said main bearing (15) to allow the tower (20) to rotate about a tower rotational axis (A) extending in a longitudinal direction of the rotatable tower (20), the tower (20) being provided with a tower aperture (25) and at least one tower doorway (26) arranged one or both of below and above the tower aperture (25), the tower aperture (25) and the at least one tower doorway (26) being adapted for one or both of people and goods to pass through,
a gangway device (32) comprising a gangway platform (34) attached to the tower (20) movable in the longitudinal direction of the tower (20), and a gangway (42) rotatably attached to the gangway platform (34),
a lift (28) arranged inside the tower (20) movable in the longitudinal direction of the tower (20), the lift (28) being provided with a lift doorway (29) adapted to align with the tower aperture (25) and with the at least one tower doorway (26) as the lift (28) moves in the longitudinal direction of the tower (20).

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

18/729,526Filed 16 Jan 2023

Priority

NO 2022005517 Jan 2022

Published

27 Mar 2025

Term ends

Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification10 codes

B63B 27/14
Arrangement of ship-based loading or unloading equipment for cargo or passengers: of ramps, gangways or outboard ladders ; Pilot lifts
B63H 9/06
Using sails or like wind-catching surfaces: types of sail; Constructional features of sails; Arrangements thereof on vessels
B63H 9/061
Types of sail; Constructional features of sails; Arrangements thereof on vessels: rigid sails; Aerofoil sails
B63H 9/1021
Running rigging, e.g. reefing equipment: reefing

Marine Gangway and a Marine Structure Comprising Such a Marine Gangway

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Marine Gangway and a Marine Structure Comprising Such a Marine Gangway

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Abstract

Claims21