Oil salvage ship with ocean going bow
OwnerThomas I. Gawinventor
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Abstract
A tanker ship designed with a bow so to scoop up spilled oil from a surface of a sea; the ship including a doorway at the water level for admitting oil and surface water as the ship moves ahead, and which is pumped into settling tanks from which the water is pumped overboard so that only the oil is collected; the bow having two hinged doors at the bow behind which a rearwardly converging vestibule or scoop having a rear vertical plate with grid-screened ports at all levels, a selected one of which is opened to admit the surface oil.
Claims3
An oil salvage ship, comprising in combination, a hull having a doorway at its bow closable by a pair of doors, a rearwardly converging vestibule behind said doorway forming a scoop as part of said ship and having a rear vertical plate, a plurality of selectively openable grid-screened ports at different elevations through said plate, said ports communicating with an oil collection system on said ship;
- whereby as the draft of the ship varies, at least one port will be at the water surface to admit surface oil.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.