Receiving assembly for receiving a seagoing vessel and system for recovering and deploying such a vessel in the sea
AssigneeThales
InventorJean Jacques Lossec
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InventorJean Jacques Lossec
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A receiving assembly for receiving a seagoing vessel is provided, to be suspended from an articulated arm of a handling structure which is provided with a lifting cable that is intended to carry a seagoing vessel and to move the vessel in a vertical direction to deploy and/or recover the vessel from the sea from a floating building on which the handling structure is secured, the receiving assembly comprising a lower part which comprises receiving means of the vessel, the receiving means having a passage for the cable and defining a cavity capable of receiving the vessel when the vessel is suspended from the lifting cable and arranged to ensure blocking of rotational and translational movements in the vertical direction upward of a seagoing vessel which is generally tubular in form, in relation to the receiving means, when the seagoing vessel is received by the cavity and comes to bear.
A receiving assembly for receiving a seagoing vessel, wherein said seagoing vessel is able to be suspended from an articulated arm of a handling structure which is provided with a lifting cable that is intended to carry the seagoing vessel and to move said vessel in a vertical direction so as to at least one of deploy and recover said vessel in or from the sea from a floating building on which said handling structure is secured, said receiving assembly comprising a lower part which comprises receiving means of said vessel, said receiving means having a passage through which the lifting cable is capable of passing, said receiving means defining a cavity which is capable of receiving said vessel when said vessel is suspended from the lifting cable and being arranged so as to ensure the blocking of rotational and translational movements in the vertical direction upward of the seagoing vessel, in relation to the receiving means, when the seagoing vessel is received by the cavity and comes to bear against said receiving means, said assembly being arranged so as to be able to be suspended from the articulated arm of the handling structure leaving at least one degree of rotational freedom about an axis perpendicular to the vertical direction between the lower part of the receiving assembly which comprises the receiving means and the handling structure, and the receiving assembly further comprising at least one mechanical fuse which is provided to shear off and disconnect a bottom part from the articulated arm when the range of the relative oscillating movement of the bottom part in relation to said arm with at least one degree of rotational freedom is superior to a predetermined threshold.
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