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US 7,093,550 B2Granted
Barge construction and freight hauling system
AssigneeLynden Incorporated
InventorsGeorge Williamson, Bob Shrewsbury, Alex McKallor
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Abstract
A freight hauling vessel (10) has a deck (12) with sets of railroad tracks (14) for rail cars (64), enabling rail cars to be rolled onto and off of the deck. Upright rows of stanchions (18) support standardized freight containers (63) spanning betwe the rows and over the rail cars.
Claims13
A freight hauling vessel comprising:
- an understructure;
- an elongated deck supported on the understructure and adapted for wheeled cargo to be rolled onto the deck, lengthwise thereof, at an origin location and rolled off of the deck, lengthwise thereof, at a destination location;
- at least two rows of upright stanchions, each row extending lengthwise of the deck, the rows being spaced apart transversely of the deck with the space between the rows being open and unobstructed at the top, the stanchions being constructed and arranged relatively for supporting freight spanning between the rows, above the deck, with sufficient room thereunder for wheeled cargo to be rolled beneath the freight;
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- container foundation blocks supported on the upper ends of the stanchions, the blocks being spaced apart transversely and longitudinally of the vessel at standard distances corresponding to the distances between fittings of standardized freight containers.
2 more elements
The method of loading freight onto a vessel which comprises:
- loading a standardized freight container onto a permanent rack structure projecting vertically from the deck of the vessel, such rack structure including at least two rows of support members spaced apart with the space between the rows open and unobstructed, such that opposite ends of the standardized container rest on support members of the different rows and the container spans between the different rows;
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- thereafter rolling wheeled cargo onto the deck beneath the freight containers.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.