Mooring system
AssigneeSingle Buoy Moorings Inc.
InventorLeendert Poldervaart
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Abstract
Mooring system, comprising a ship, a mooring device, a rigid arm between ship and mooring device, which arm at one end is connected to the ship or mooring device through the intermediance of a first weight loaded connecting element, which is swingably suspended, whereas according to the invention the other end is coupled to a second weight loaded connecting element, which by its weight is held in a predensioned state aginst an abutment, such that only after a certain shift of the ship the second weight starts to function. The points of attachment of the ends of the rigid arm with the weight loaded connecting elements can be past the respective centres of gravity of the weights.
Claims3
Mooring system, comprising a mooring device, a ship, and between mooring device and ship a rigid arm each of the two ends of which is fixed to a connecting element loaded by a weight, one of these connecting elements being coupled to the mooring device, and the other to the ship, characterized in that at least one of the ends of the rigid arm is coupled to a connecting element which is held in a pre-tensioned state by the weight, in such a way that said weight cannot be displaced until after the connecting element and weight at the other end of the rigid arm have undergone a certain shift.
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