Spill containment system
OwnerRonald Loganinventor
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Abstract
A spill containment system for vessels comprises a curtain capable of extending continuously around the entire vessel and having a vertical dimension sufficient to extend from a height above the waterline to a depth below the waterline. The curtain is stored in canisters on or beneath the deck inboard from the hull or rail but capable of being deployed by articulated arms to a position outboard of the ship where the curtain can be deployed into the water to maintain and control a spill from the vessel.
Claims8
A spill containment system for vessels having a hull and a deck joined together to define a rail, comprising:
- a containment curtain movable between a deployed position in which the curtain extends horizontally continuously around said vessel and hangs to extend vertically from a height above the waterline to a depth below the waterline and a stored position in which the curtain is in a folded configuration on said vessel;
- a series of canisters capable of receiving the containment curtain in its folded configuration therein, said canisters located in the stored position within the hull of said vessel;
- cable guide means associated with said curtain for raising said curtain from a deployed position to a folded configuration and for lowering said curtain from a folded configuration to a deployed position to hang vertically;
- a deployment mechanism having a movable arm connected to said canisters and operable to move said canisters containing said folded curtain from a storage position inboard of the hull of said vessel to a deployed position outboard of the hull of said vessel.
A spill containment system as claimed in 2, in which said system includes a wave barrier positioned outboard of said canisters to protect said canisters from wave action.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.