Patents Assigned to Dredging International
  • Patent number: 7895775
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a draghead (1) for a trailing suction hopper, comprising a visor (2), revolvable around a first axis (6) for removing soil, and a suction line (31) connected to the visor (2) for the removal of the loosened soil, characterised in that the draghead (1) is provided with a pressure plate (21), which comprises a number of mainly disc-shaped penetrating bodies (22) on the soil-facing side of the pressure plate (21), in such a way that their circumferential edge (23) is capable of transferring forces to the soil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2011
    Assignee: Dredging International
    Inventor: Bruno Tack
  • Patent number: 7647712
    Abstract: A cutter head for dredging soil, which is mountable to the ladder of a suction dredger for dredging soil, and connectable on a suction pipe for removing loosened soil, the cutter head comprising a cage-shaped support construction which is mountable to a drivable rotation shaft extending mainly in extension of the ladder and which has a circumferential surface provided with a number of cuffing tools for penetrating the soil, the cuffing tools comprising a number of disc-shaped penetration bodies of which the disc planes extend substantially perpendicular to the rotation shaft, so that they can transfer forces to the soil via their peripheral edges.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2010
    Assignee: Dredging International
    Inventor: Bruno Tack
  • Publication number: 20090056173
    Abstract: A cutter head for dredging soil, which is mountable to the ladder of a suction dredger for dredging soil, and connectable on a suction pipe for removing loosened soil, the cutter head comprising a cage-shaped support construction which is mountable to a drivable rotation shaft extending mainly in extension of the ladder and which has a circumferential surface provided with a number of cutting tools for penetrating the soil, the cutting tools comprising a number of disc-shaped penetration bodies of which the disc planes extend substantially perpendicular to the rotation shaft, so that they can transfer forces to the soil via their peripheral edges.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2006
    Publication date: March 5, 2009
    Applicant: DREDGING INTERNATIONAL
    Inventor: Bruno Tack
  • Publication number: 20070261275
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a draghead (1) for a trailing suction hopper, comprising a visor (2), revolvable around a first axis (6) for removing soil, and a suction line (31) connected to the visor (2) for the removal of the loosened soil, characterised in that the draghead (1) is provided with a pressure plate (21), which comprises a number of mainly disc-shaped penetrating bodies (22) on the soil-facing side of the pressure plate (21), in such a way that their circumferential edge (23) is capable of transferring forces to the soil.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2005
    Publication date: November 15, 2007
    Applicant: DREDGING INTERNATIONAL
    Inventor: Bruno Tack
  • Patent number: 5732487
    Abstract: A dredge head for dredging sludge by a trailing and pushing motion thereby defining a trailing and pushing direction is configured to be fitted on a ladder of a stationary dredger. The ladder is movable in the trailing and pushing direction for moving the dredge head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 1996
    Date of Patent: March 31, 1998
    Assignee: Dredging International
    Inventor: Theo Van De Kerckhove
  • Patent number: 4549497
    Abstract: There is described a device for underwater sealing ports or similar, whereby sliding panels are shifted along discharge openings, in which rubber sections are mounted about said discharge openings, in frames secured to a vessel side, and means are provided to exert a hydraulic pressure on said rubber sections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 1983
    Date of Patent: October 29, 1985
    Assignee: Dredging International
    Inventor: Emile Van Hove
  • Patent number: 4362420
    Abstract: There is described a device for mounting and removing a cutter at the end of the cutter shaft from a hydraulic or suction dredge, whereby the cutter boss is provided with an inner screw-thread and the cutter shaft with an outer screw-thread. The device is comprised of two concentric rings those surfaces of which facing one another are provided with teeth fitting into one another, whereby the slanting of said teeth is opposite to the angle of said screw-threads, and means are provided to lock both rings during the screwing of the cutter on the shaft thereof, in such a position relative to one another where said rings have so rotated relative to one another that the joint thickness thereof is increased as compared with the joint thickness of the toothed rings when the teeth have completely rotated into one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 1980
    Date of Patent: December 7, 1982
    Assignee: Dredging International
    Inventor: Corneel R. M. Van der Veken