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Invention relates crossing appliances, namely to ferries and pontoon bridges. Proposed appliance consists of identical individual or interconnected ferries. Every ferry includes folding pontoon links composed of articulated two extreme and two central pontoons with built-in roadways and transom joints. Propulsors are arranged between said folding links. Displacement folding links are arranged on ends of every ferry with decks arranged on part of their length and inclined to transoms equipped with articulated triangular gang boards furnished with two-way roadways and lifted above water surface by gantry. Ends of extreme pontoon gang boards are furnished with paired fixed thrusts. Said ferries are jointed by transom joint links of extreme displacement folding links. Gang boards of said links are arranged and secured on pontoon deck inclined sections. Clearance between said paired thrusts makes 4-6 mm. |
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Big passenger ship used as boarging school (modifications) FIELD: big passenger ships. SUBSTANCE: invention refers to big passenger ships and can be used as a passenger cruise liner, floatel, vocational school or college. The big ship includes at least one deck for passengers' accommodation and recreation. There are some modifications concerning the rooms arrangement on the deck. Each modification provides passengers' safety in case the fire or emergency situation arises. As an example of the suggested technical solution the following modification is cited - the ship that includes twelve decks that are connected with the passenger (41) and the freight-passenger (42) elevator shafts, technical shafts (40), main (43) and technical (44) stairs as well as moving stairway (45) and technical elevator (46). All the rooms on the decks are joined by the corridors (39). The ship decks contain state rooms for the staff (56), teachers' state rooms (73), students' state rooms (76), tutors' state rooms (77), guests' state rooms (57), guest suite room (75), apartments (74), classrooms (78), lecture halls (81), laboratories (82), a medical centre, a skating rink (9), a library (1), a cinema and concert hall (6), retailer and service outlets (7), a media-centre (8), a restaurant (15), workshops (11), a desalination station (27), a water cleaning station (28), customs (30), acting areas (86), a swimming pool, a beach, an orrery (129), helicopter spots (113), rescue equipment (64), personal survival kits (70), wrecker equipment (66). EFFECT: ensuring of passengers' safety that consists in the optimal arrangement of the ship rooms. 12 cl, 13 dwg |
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Invention relates to river vehicles and can be used for all-the-year-round transportation of people and cargoes from one river bank to another. Proposed ferry comprises water craft with symmetric boa parts supporting vertical barrels furnished with rings, ropes, two rotor-type windmills, hydraulic turbines mounted in cylindrical flow passages, electric generators connected with storage batteries mounted on water craft deck, nearby control post. Note here that one end of the rope is secured to the barrel and another one is jointed to support mounted on river bottom in headwaters. Water craft bow part with its bottom having suction openings houses water-jet propeller representing a multi-blade impeller linked by shaft with electric motor. |
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Invention relates to river transport and can be used to carry people and transport facilities from one river bank to another. Ferry comprises two cylindrical spaced apart pontoons, cargo deck secured there between, platform bottom part being immersed in water and having position floatability. Ferry comprises power plant made up of two assemblies, each made up of pipeline, engine with screw propeller arranged inside said pipeline and ferry travel direction variation unit. Ferry incorporates unit to vary amount of positive floatability, if required, that consists of two tight chambers arranged between deck shells along the ferry lengthwise axis and communicated with compressor via compressed air ducts. Each said tight chamber has driven hydraulic valves, valves drive being mounted outside of the chamber and pneumatic cylinder mounted below cargo platform floor. Pneumatic cylinder rod is jointed with hinged-lever mechanism linked with working elements of hydraulic valves. Ferry comprises also rollers mounted on ferry bow and stern to interact with brake shoes. |
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Self-propelled ferry power plant and power plant attachment Proposed power plant comprises first and second rows of spur gear wheels that allow forward and reverse gears, and bevel gearing. First row gears are made integral with driven drums of water-jet propeller friction clutches. Second row driven gear is made integral with reverse clutch drive drum. Bevel gear consists of drive and driven gears engaged with water-jet propeller gimbal drives. Bevel gear drive wheel is engaged with reverse driven drum clutch with torsion spring. Self-propelled ferry power plant attachment comprises front and two rear supports. Transfer bearing bridge is arranged in each rear support between arm and antivibration rubber-metal shock absorbers. |
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Inventions are related to the field of shipbuilding, in particular to structures of sea railway ferryboats. Method for fixation of railway cisterns on sea railway ferryboat consists in the fact that previously on cistern upper part local fixation area is selected, which is installed in cistern cross section corresponding to position of its gravity centre along length. Cistern is fixed on ferryboat only by its upper part. Fixation of cisterns is carried out by system of tongs with hydraulic cylinders mounted in guides arranged above upper deck of ferryboat along it length. Sea railway ferryboat has upper deck, cargo deck and device for fixation of railway cisterns, which is mounted under upper deck of ferryboat and includes guides and tongs assembled with the possibility of displacement along guides by means of hydraulic cylinders fixed to upper deck. Guides are installed length-wise along upper deck length, and tongs of every group are oriented towards each other. Every pair of tongs is shaped adequately to the shape of railway cistern neck. |
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Ferry for forward-drive vehicle Ferry designed for forward-drive vehicle represents catamaran with its floats interconnected by beams and furnished with guiding cargo paths with gangway boards. Every device of kinematic linkage between driving wheel drive and water propeller comprises flange mounted at the vehicle drive wheel seat to transmit rotation via flexible linkage to propeller shaft. The said shaft is linked up with angle drive to drive the aforesaid water propeller. There is bearing support moving crosswise on bearing beams with their ends attached to the floats. Support assemblies are fitted to move crosswise on bearings beams with their ends attached to the floats to move lengthwise. |
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Proposed ferry comprises floating structure furnished with "П"-shape prop fitted at the said structure forebody, cable, steering device, two rotor-type windmills, hydraulic turbine and electric generators arranged at the structure stern, and pneumobottles arranged on the floating structure boards. Note here that one end of the aforesaid cable is fastened to the said prop while the other end is anchored at the river center bottom, in the river upstream water. |
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Invention relates to water transport, namely to transportation of motor vehicles and passengers between river banks with limited navigability. The ferry is made up of two spaced pontoons, a positive floatability deck fastened between with the lower submerged part. The above-water deck surface is arranged in the pontoons centre plane. The ferry is provided with propulsion plant representing two units mounted along the deck boards made up of a pipe, an engine with screw propeller arranged inside the pipe and steering branch pipe linked with the pipe to turn about the ferry lengthwise axis. Both branch pipes are pivoted together, one of them being furnished with a lever crank-rod assembly with the branch pipe turning drive mechanism. |
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Proposed collapsible unit includes two end articulated and two middle pontoons, ramp and collapsible streamlined shields located on one of transoms of collapsible unit. Each ramp is provided with longitudinal guides on lower plane and each collapsible streamlined shield is made from middle section and two end articulated sections locked with braces relative to middle section. Middle section is provided with stop and is movably connected with longitudinal guides of ramp by means of rollers located on upper edge of shield and is rotatably connected by means of connecting rods articulated at one end to lugs on rear plane of middle section; at other end provided with tubular head it is articulated to axles found on side walls of ramp. |
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Proposed self-propelled ferry may be self-propelled in water, may be transported by land and launched into water by means of specialized vehicle. Ferry is provided with swivel deployment mechanisms interconnected together and equipped with roadway; ferry includes central propulsion pontoon and side hinged pontoons having sledge lines at fore and aft transoms, deckhouse with control members, engine and its associated systems and propulsion and steering complex mounted in propulsion pontoon, swivel fore and aft fairings, wash plates and ramps. Fore and aft deck parts of propulsion pontoon are extended beyond fore and aft transoms in side pontoons for mounting fore superstructure with built-in deckhouse and aft superstructure and laying the side pontoons between superstructures, thus transforming the ferry into three-tier stack when shifting it from deployed to stowed position. For deployment of the ferry to working position, mounting the fairings, ramps and wash plates and folding them in the stowed position, ferry is provided with hydraulic system with actuating hydraulic cylinders. Deckhouse is lightly armored. Each pontoon and aft superstructure are divided into watertight compartments by means of bulkheads. Engine fuel tanks and hydraulic fluid tanks for hydraulic system are arranged in middle compartment of center pontoon; power plant and one water-jet propeller of propulsion and steering complex are arranged in aft compartment; second water-jet propeller is arranged in aft compartment of the same pontoon. Storage battery unit of electrical equipment system is located in racks on level of deck in central compartment of aft superstructure. Ferry is provided with buoyancy maintenance system whose pumps are mounted in each pontoon; ferry is also provided with fire-fighting system. |
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Proposed ferry may be transported by land and may be launched into water by means of specialized vehicle. It is provided with deployment mechanisms articulated together and equipped with roadway built in decks, central propulsion pontoon and side hinged pontoons, deck house with control members, engine with its systems and propulsion and steering complex mounted in propulsion pontoons, fore and aft fairings with wash plates and swivel ramps mounted on side pontoons. Pontoons have similar displacement; they are divided into watertight compartments by means of bulkheads. Each ramp is made in form of watertight displacement-type skeleton imparting additional transversal stability to ferry during embarkation of tanks which may be locked in any position on hinged pontoon within preset angles of turn. Fore and aft deck parts of propulsion pontoon are extended beyond fore and aft transoms of side pontoons for position of fore superstructure on the extended parts together with built-in deckhouse and aft superstructure and laying the side pontoons between superstructures, thus transforming the ferry into three-tier stack when it is returned from deployed position to stowed position. Fuel tanks of engine supply system are arranged in middle compartment of central propulsion pontoon; they are arranged in groups located symmetrically relative to center of mass of ferry; each of them is provided with service tank fitted with fuel-contents gage and interconnected by means of pipe lines for centralized refueling through filler neck located in fore superstructure, thus ensuring smooth consumption of fuel from tanks both through service tanks and through one of them; provision is made for disconnection of group of tanks in case of damage to one of them with the aid of electric two-way valves. Propulsion and steering complex includes radial-type water-jet propellers at varying thrust vector; water-jet propellers are provided with vacuum pumps which are so mounted that air may be evacuated from water-jet propeller trunks which are filled with water before switching-on the pumps. Pumps may be switched on/off both automatically and manually from control console mounted in deckhouse. |
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Proposed ferry is self-propelled in water and may be transported by land in form of stack and launched into water by means of specialized vehicle. Ferry is provided with deployment mechanisms which are articulated together and are equipped with roadway built in decks, central propulsion pontoon and side hinged pontoons whose roadways are inclined relative to horizontal deck forming recesses for stowage of ramps. Hull of each pontoon has at least two frame rings interconnected by means of stringers, thus forming solid load-bearing skeleton, frame rings located symmetrically relative to roadway and formed by bottom beams and deck horizontal beams and rigidly connected with them by means of side pillars provided on both sides of propulsion pontoon and on one adjacent side of each side hinged pontoon. Pillars of opposite sides of propulsion pontoon have different height for placing the side pontoons at different levels in stowing them in three-tier stack. Upper parts of pillars extending over deck are provided with hinges connecting the propulsion pontoon hull with hulls of side hinged pontoons; wall of each pillar has transversal stiffeners mounted under deck and connected by means of plate for forming box-shaped compartments imparting additional rigidity to frame rings; they are used for articulated mounting of hydraulic cylinders of pontoon deployment mechanism. Outer sides of side pontoons are provided with cavities above bottom stringers for placing the hydraulic cylinders of pontoon deployment mechanisms. Made along propulsion pontoon bottom are guides projecting beyond bottom plane, thus forming additional rigidity; they are used for interaction with roller units of the specialized vehicle in loading the pontoon and launching it into water. |
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Ferry for traffic service between river banks Proposed ferry is provided with pontoons which are spaced apart in width and are made from different materials; cargo and passenger deck is secured on pontoons at two levels. Ferry is also provided with propulsion plant. Upper surface of cargo deck rising above water during operation is located in center plane of cylindrical pontoons; lower part of cargo deck which possesses positive buoyancy is immersed in water. Middle cylindrical part of each pontoon is made from non-metallic materials and is connected with metal end units by means of flanged joint located inside pontoon. Propulsion plant consists of two portable units mounted turnably on cargo deck for control of heading; these units are spaced apart along longitudinal axis of symmetry on edges of cargo deck. |
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Proposed ship has hull with pointed fore lines and flat-bottomed aft part which is closed with deck. Erected on deck is superstructure whose rear wall is used as hinged ramp of cargo compartment. Propulsion and steering complexes are arranged in midsection of ship in wells for raising and lowering them. |
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Collapsible pontoon-catamaran for self-propelling of automobile on water surface (versions) Proposed pontoon-catamaran includes flat float assembled from sections which are interconnected by means of beams. Floats are provided with wheel recesses and folding supports for bumpers. Pontoon intended for front-drive automobile is provided with swivel propellers at drive from front wheels. Pontoon intended for rear-drive automobile is provided with bladed rudders at drive from front wheels and propellers at drive from rear wheels. Automobile pushes itself together with pontoon into water by use of its own mass and moves in water by means of its engine; control of pontoon motion is effected from automobile cabin. |
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Ferry-electrically-powered ship Proposed ferry includes pontoon with rollers and electric motor fitted on it; electric motor is connected with reduction gear by means of clutch and is set in motion by means of rope guide pulley lined with rubber. Arranged in house mounted on ferry are current collectors for supply of electric motor with electric power by means of contact wires stretched above river by means of supports; electric motor rotates rope guide pulley engageable with embracing rope. |
Another patent 2544280.