Floating support for offshore structure such as a wind generator in particular
AssigneeDcns
InventorPhilippe Thieffry
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Abstract
This floating support for an offshore structure such as a wind generator in particular, of the type including an element in the form of a support mast (16), the upper part of winch is associated with the structure and the lower part of winch is associated with elements (18) in the form of float and with ballast-forming elements (17), is characterized in that the elements (18) in the form of a float have an overall shape winch widens out from the lower part of the element (16) in the form of a mast, allowing two stable positions of the support to be defined, one of the positions being a lying-down position and the other a position standing up on the elements in the form of a float.
Claims6
A floating support for an offshore structure, comprising:
- a support mast (16), an upper part of which is associated with the structure and a lower part of which is associated with a float (18) and with a ballast-former (17), wherein the float (18) comprises at least three elongate floats (19, 20, 21) regularly positioned around the mast (16) and inclined relative to the mast (16) by an angle between 15° and 45°, the float (18) having an overall cone's frustum shape which widens out from the lower part of the mast (16), allowing two stable positions of the support to be defined, one of the positions being a lying-down position and the other a position standing up on the float (18), wherein lower ends of the elongate floats are connected to the ballast-former (17) at a lower end of the mast (16), wherein upper ends of the elongate floats are connected to one another and to the mast by a connector (22) and the cone's frustum defines a large base and a small base, the large base being closer to the structure than the small base.
A floating support for an offshore wind generator structure, comprising:
- a support mast (16), an upper part of which is associated with the structure and a lower part of which is associated with a float (18) and with a ballast-former (17), wherein the float (18) comprises at least three elongate floats (19, 20, 21) regularly positioned around the mast (16) and inclined relative to the mast (16) by an angle between 15° and 45°, the float (18) having an overall cone's frustum shape which widens out from the lower part of the mast (16), allowing two stable positions of the support to be defined, one of the positions being a lying-down position and the other a position standing up on the float (18), wherein lower ends of the elongate floats are connected to the ballast-former (17) at a lower end of the mast, wherein upper ends of the elongate floats are connected to one another and to the mast by a connector (22), the cone's frustum defining a large base and a small base, the large base being closer to the structure than the small base.
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