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Lifting equipment for an offshore construction

Patent ·
OSTI ID:6776337
An offshore construction in which a floatable platform is supported through raisable and lowerable support legs directly or indirectly on the sea bed. At least two cable winches for each support leg are arranged as lifting equipment on the platform. One cable winch is connected through a single cable line with the lower end of a support leg. The other cable winch displays a multiple cable line guided around two pulley blocks. One of these pulley blocks is arranged on the support leg. In order to be able to employ the lifting equipment even in the case of great support leg lengths, the other pulley block is arranged on a ring. This ring surrounds the support leg and is detachably connected through a locking device with the platform.
Assignee:
Deutsche Badcock Anlagen Aktiengesellschaft (Germany, Federal Republic of)
Patent Number(s):
US 4427319
OSTI ID:
6776337
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English