Handler for container ship
AssigneeEtat Francais Represente Delegation Generale pour l'Armement - DCN
InventorsJean-Yves Le Lan, Olivier De Smirnoff, Daniel Person, Gilles Christian Fournier
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Abstract
A container ship includes a hull, propulsion device, support, guide disposed on the support that is extendible beyond the hull, and handler movable along the guide. Thus, the container ship enables containers to be unloaded near a variety of points of use, i.e., not only in ports that are not equipped with port handling facilities, but also onto unequipped beaches, banks, or landing slips. The container ship also unloads containers in such a manner that it has practically no effect on the equilibrium of the ship, whatever its size.
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A container ship comprising a hull, propulsion means and a handler for handling containers and placed on a support, a guide, for the handler, disposed on the support, the guide comprising two parallel rails each having a first part and a second part, the handler including a portal crane that travels along the two parallel rails, wherein the support includes:
- two first C-shaped beams placed lengthwise on the ship and attached to the hull and disposed at opposite sides of the hull, each of the first C-shaped beams defining a cavity and supporting the first part of one of the two parallel rails of the guide, the two first beams substantially placed so as to not extend beyond the hull,
- two second beams disposed lengthwise, one being telescopically slidable within the cavity of one of the two first beams so as to be extendible beyond the hull and the other telescopically slidable inside the cavity of the other of the two first beams so as to be extendible beyond the hull, each of the two second beams supporting the second part of one of the two parallel rails of the guide which constitutes an extension of the first part of the parallel rails of the guide when the second beam extends beyond the hull, a continuity of travel existing for the handler between the first part of the parallel rails of the guide and the second part of the parallel rails of the guide when the second beam extends beyond the hull in that each of the parallel rails of the guide is substantially continuous in the lengthwise direction over substantially an entire length of the first beam and the second beam together, the second beams able to bear the weight of the container and the handler.
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