Float mooring method, mooring member, and method of recovering same

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9896164-B2
Application number	US-201515324112-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 10, 2015
Priority date	Jul 10, 2014
Publication date	Feb 20, 2018
Grant date	Feb 20, 2018

Abstract

A mooring method includes the steps of: transporting a mooring member having a mooring cable which can be connected to a float at one end and an accommodation member installed at the other end of the mooring cable and has an accommodation space therein to a mooring position of the float; accommodating a first heavy weight in at least a part of the accommodation space of the accommodation member at the mooring position; connecting the one end of the mooring cable to the float at the mooring position after the accommodation step; and accommodating a second heavy weight in the accommodation space of the accommodation member by adding the second heavy weight to the first heavy weight or exchanging at least part of the first heavy weight with the second heavy weight at the mooring position after the connection step.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A float mooring method comprising:
a transportation step of transporting a mooring member having a mooring cable which can be connected to a float at one end thereof and an accommodation member which is installed at the other end of the mooring cable or between the one end and the other end of the mooring cable and has an accommodation space therein to a mooring position of the float in a working water area;
a first accommodation step of accommodating a first heavy weight in at least a part of the accommodation space of the accommodation member at the mooring position;
a connection step of connecting the one end of the mooring cable to the float at the mooring position after the first accommodation step; and
a second accommodation step of accommodating a second heavy weight in the accommodation space of the accommodation member by adding the second heavy weight to the first heavy weight or exchanging at least part of the first heavy weight with the second heavy weight at the mooring position after the connection step.

2. The float mooring method according to claim 1 ,
wherein, in the transportation step, the mooring member is transported in a state in which the accommodation space is filled with air.

3. The float mooring method according to claim 1 ,
wherein at least one of the first heavy weight and the second heavy weight has flowability.

4. The float mooring method according to claim 3 ,
wherein, in the second accommodation step, the same substance as the first heavy weight in the first accommodation step is used as the second heavy weight.

5. The float mooring method according to claim 4 ,
wherein water in the water area is used as the first heavy weight and the second heavy weight.

6. The float mooring method according to claim 1 ,
wherein, as the mooring member, a weight member which is attached to the other end of the mooring cable or in the accommodation member, is placed at the bottom of the water area, and has a filling space therein is further used.

7. The float mooring method according to claim 1 , comprising:
before the connection step, a buoy-joining step of joining a buoy with the one end of the mooring cable and floating the buoy on a water surface in the water area.

8. The float mooring method according to claim 1 ,
wherein, as the accommodation member, a tube member which is attached to the other end of the mooring cable is used.

9. The float mooring method according to claim 1 ,
wherein, as the accommodation member, a variant member which is attached between the one end and the other end of the mooring cable is used.

10. The float mooring method according to claim 9 ,
wherein multiple variant members are placed at predetermined intervals between the one end and the other end of the mooring cable.

11. The float mooring method according to claim 1 ,
wherein, as the mooring member, a first mooring member which is connected to a first connection portion of the float and a second mooring member which is connected to a second connection portion that is placed at a position different from that of the first connection portion in the float are used.

Assignees

• Nippon Steel & Sumikin Eng Co

Inventors

• Torii Tadashi
• Fujiwara Kohichi
• Ookubo Hiroshi
• IWAMOTO Chikara
• Yamashita Atsushi

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