Floorless, non-self-supporting ship cabin, constructed of prefabricated parts and process for manufacturing and erecting same including apparatus therefore
AssigneeLloyd Werft Bremerhaven GmbH
InventorRegul Klaus
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Abstract
The invention is directed to a non-self-supporting, floorless ship cabin 21, having wall panels 18a which is positioned on a horizontal rigid sliding frame 1. The cabin can be transported, after its fabrication on shore, without difficulty, to a respective position on the deck of a ship. The ship cabin itself need not be rigid due to the sliding frame. This represents a major reduction in weight. The sliding frame 1 together with ship cabin 21 is pulled across the ship deck during transport.
Claims19
A non self-supporting, floorless ship cabin made of prefabricated components comprising:
- U-shaped foot profiles adapted for connection to a ship deck;
- vertical wall panels and corner connectors, inserted into and connected to said foot profiles;
- hat profiles in inverse U-shape, each said hat profile having a contact flange, positioned and connected to an upper edge of a respective said wall panel and corner connector;
- ceiling panels positioned on and connected to said support flange of said hat profiles;
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- a flat sliding frame dimensionally corresponding to the size of a cabin's floor plan, said flat sliding frame having longitudinal and crossbeam frame members, said sliding frame being rigified in a horizontal plane by braces, while being flexible vertically with respect to said horizontal plane;
- wherein said foot profiles are attached to said longitudinal and crossbeam frame members, preferably by tack welds, and said wall panels and said corner connectors are connected to said foot profiles and said hat profiles in such a way that a minor non-permanent deformation of the nonrigified ship cabin is possible within certain limits by allowing a movement of said wall panels and said corner connectors in a vertical direction and opposite to each other without causing damage to said wall panels and said corner connectors.
A process for fabricating and erecting ship cabins comprising:
- fabricating a sliding frame outside of a ship, including longitudinal and crossbeam frame members and associated braces;
- erecting said ship cabin from wall panels, corner panels, foot profiles and hat profiles on said sliding frame;
- pulling or pushing said sliding frame together with said ship cabin onto a rigid transportation frame;
- transporting said transportation frame together with said ship cabin to a ship;
- pulling or pushing said sliding frame together with said ship cabin from said transportation frame and pulling and pushing said sliding frame together with said ship cabin through an opening of said ship to a final location,
- mounting said sliding frame together with said ship cabin to a ship deck;
- removing said braces;
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- executing finishing work on said ship deck.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.