Abstract: A deepwater windpower plant (DWP) has a tension leg-type floating platform with an evacuable base for adjusting its buoyancy for installation at ocean depths ranging from 40 meters up to 1.5 kilometers and more. The DWP has a typical offshore wind turbine assembled close to shore which is then towed to a desired installation site on the ocean, and held in place by a gravity anchoring base (GAB), to which an evacuable portion or space of the DWP platform is anchored. The GAB has upwardly extending mooring tethers and a power cable which are brought to the ocean surface by attached buoys. The GAB is sunk to the ocean floor at the installation site under controlled conditions so that the GAB lands flat on the ocean floor. As the GAB sinks to the ocean floor, the mooring tethers and power cable are pulled to the surface by their respective buoys. The GAB is loaded with heavy ballast material that can be dropped from barges on the ocean surface into the upwardly open GAB below the barges.

Abstract: A High-rise Automated Garage (HAG) for offstreet parking consists of up to 40 stories (levels) car storage structure and a bank of elevators in the middle of this structure. Elevators are oriented along the garage and can pick-up cars from a flat driveway along the garage. Car handling carriages of the elevators can lift cars as cargo, using their wheels as the pick-up points, and move them horizontally into elevator's platform. In the case of one elevator failure, cars parked in the zone served by this elevator can be relocated by attendants into the zone served by an operating elevator, thus providing the capability of returning cars to the owners in a reasonable time. HAG has two loading (unloading) lanes. This allows an increase in the driver time for arriving and releasing the car to two elevators' cycles.

Abstract: The Floating Terminal is designed to facilitate transshipment of cargo between large (deepwater) ships and small shallow water (shuttle) ships.The main innovations are in the mooring and fendering systems which are attached to the Floating Terminal hull and provide to it the capability of berthing ships in stormy weather and without assistance from tugs.The Gravity type Breasting Dolphins, which are the core of the new fendering system, have several times more energy absorption capacity and also several times larger deflection, under equal force, that any existing floating dolphin. During severe weather conditions the floating pontoons of the Floating Breasting Dolphins can be lowered on a certain depth below sea level or can be lifted to level of the Floating Terminal main deck. The use of the Gravity type Breasting Dolphin is also seen for the fixed terminals in the not protected and in the protected harbors as well.

Abstract: The Fast Loading Articulated Platforms System--FLAPS provides modern containerships with an ability in a matter of minutes to transform cellular hold, for handling only containers, into multideck hold, for handling outsized and break-bulk cargo, and back to cellular hold. It includes a set of flat moveable deck section, assigned to certain holds, which during a container mode of operation are lowered to the hold bottom and stored on the top of each other, and serve as a foundation for several layers of containers above them. During the general cargo mode of operation, the moveable deck section are lifted above each other to a certain height and are fixed to the ship's structure. It transforms cellular hold into multideck hold. Each moveable deck section has a provision to be pivoted 90.degree. in the hold and stored in this position during cargohandling operation on the lower deck.

Abstract: A system for stabilizing floating semi-submersible platforms and compensating ship motion of monohull ships is based on a design protecting waterplane from vertical movement during wave actions. Each vertical strut of the semi-submersible platform utilizing this system consists of a vertical hollow column with its upper end connected to the platform upper structure and lower end open to the surrounding water. Inside the vertical hollow column is inserted a buoyancy vessel which is connected to the upper platform structure by its upper part and which serves as a means of forming a waterplane. During passive mode of this system operation, the roll and pitch of the floating platform (ship), due to wave induced forces, will be introduced because the vertical movement of the water level inside the vertical hollow column will be considerably less than the vertical movement of the water outside the vertical hollow column.

Abstract: The berth for offshore platform has a floating fendering system to which the supply boat is berthing and derrick crane which lifts the floating fendering system from water to the level of the upper deck of offshore platform. When berth is in working position the floating fendering system is connected to the suspended massive intermediate platform, which serves as a gravity absorption system, accomodating impact from the berthing ship and waves action. The boom of the derrick crane and suspension system for massive intermediate platform incorporates permanent ladders, which provide reliable and safe connection for personnel between the upper deck of the offshore platform and supply boat, moored to the platform. The passenger elevator is provided for more comfortable transportation for the personnel between the supply ship and upper deck of the platform.

Abstract: A floating breasting dolphin for a ship's berth which absorbs the ship's impact energy by being pivoted and lifted from the surface of the water. The dolphin consists of a floating pontoon, which is connected through universal joints to anchors on the bottom of the sea by two transverse and inclined levers and one longitudinally inclined lever. A fender is supported on the front part of the pontoon by a universal joint. The anchor system thereby distributes the impact forces from the ship to the sea bottom. The system allows the dolphin to sink to the bottom of the sea in heavy storms or under ice conditions and refloat as conditions improve.

Abstract: An Under-the-roof loader is an elongated boom which is connected to the crane lift line through its fulcrum axis and it is balanced in respect to this axis. The purely mechanical automatical balancing system, which actuates by boom inclination during initial period of lifting the load, moves the counterweight in opposite from the loaddirection until it balances the lifting load. At this moment inclination of the boom stops and the crane starts to lift the load simultaneously with all parts of the boom including counterweight. The railguides for counterweight are so curved that the gravity force of counterweight is at all time normal to the curve while the counterweight moves along the curved part of the boom proportionally to the angle of boom inclination. The mechanism transfering the boom inclination in the reciprocating motion of the counterweight consists of two levers.

Abstract: A hoisting device for a crane employing purely mechanical members to counterbalance the load on it boom in near horizontal position as the weight of the load is applied in the initial lifting operation. The horizontal position of the boom affords a capability for the associated crane to remove a load, for example, from under a roof, thus giving the crane an access which it would not otherwise have. A planetary gearing system is actuated in accordance with the inclination angle of the boom under load conditions and, as a consequence, a counterweight is automatically moved oppositely in direction from the load to effect the desired balance for the system.