Bulk cargo ship hold arrangement

Patent · Tue Jan 20 00:00:00 EST 1981

OSTI ID:6447254

Sandwall, N K

The invention relates to an arrangement in ship holds for bulk cargo, for example coal. The hold bottom has one or more rows of discharge openings and is substantially flat on at least one side of the rows of discharge openings. A plurality of drivers are arranged in succession on the flat bottom and are displaceable by drive motors in a direction transverse to said row so as to feed the cargo to the openings.

• Assignee: Ab Nordstroms Linbanor (Sweden)
• Patent Number(s): US 4245942
• OSTI ID: 6447254
• Resource Relation: Patent Priority Date: Priority date 5 Oct 1977, Sweden; Other Information: PAT-APPL-946074
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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42 ENGINEERING
01 COAL, LIGNITE, AND PEAT
COAL
MARITIME TRANSPORT
SHIPS
CONVEYORS
OPENINGS
CARBONACEOUS MATERIALS
ENERGY SOURCES
EQUIPMENT
FOSSIL FUELS
FUELS
HAULAGE EQUIPMENT
MATERIALS
MATERIALS HANDLING EQUIPMENT
TRANSPORT
420205* - Engineering- Transport & Storage Facilities- (1980-)
013000 - Coal
Lignite
& Peat- Transport
Handling
& Storage