Offshore floating living premises, laboratory and submersible plankton pump tower pump and submersible aerated research manned actuated vehicle
11072401 · 2021-07-27
Inventors
Cpc classification
Y02A30/00
GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
Y02A40/81
GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
A01K61/60
HUMAN NECESSITIES
B63B35/44
PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
B63B21/50
PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
B63B2035/442
PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
B63B2035/4426
PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
International classification
B63B35/44
PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
Abstract
An offshore ocean floating platform equipped with a docking bay with a hull made with multiple steel barrels welded to each other arranged in multiple layers, an upper deck with living premises, laboratory and control tower, having three submersible plankton pumping towers extending from above water level up to 120′ depth, a manned and aerated research submersible vehicle with vertical travel controlled by a telescopic double acting actuator, including two telescopic aeration tubes providing atmospheric pressure air from above sea level, and safety return springs, sealed glass windows, water depth gage and video cameras. The upper deck having plankton pools plankton pumped from ocean floor by a piston traveling within a cylinder by double acting telescopic actuator for fishery feedings. All towers bottom-end secured to seabed dirt with multiple heavy cement poles with embedded cylinder and piston moving under ocean water high pressure into seabed dirt with self-drilling plungers.
Claims
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An offshore ocean floating platform with docking bay, plankton pools and a raised hull made of welded steel barrels arranged in multiple layers, having an upper deck mounted above said hull including living premises and a laboratory, and equipped with multiple submersible plankton pumping towers equipped with a telescopic double acting actuator connected to a piston with a center hole and a check valve, and with an additional submersible tower supporting vertical motion of an aerated manned research vehicle from sea level and reaching down to ocean floor up to 120′ depth and back up, with the double-acting telescopic actuator and with telescopic dual air supply tubes including return springs wherein said plankton pumping towers and said vehicle tower connected to seabed with water pressurized self-drilling plungers, comprising: i. the living premises and the laboratory mounted over a floating docking hull, comprising: a. a floating platform with a docking bay comprising multiple empty and sealed steel barrels welded to each other and arranged in multiple layers mounted above said initial layer secured to an adjacent layer with welded adaptors, thereby said docking bay barrels provide the required-buoyancy to the hull, to the docking bay, to the upper deck including living premises, to the laboratory and to the control tower b. said docking bay having multiple pools for collecting water with plankton pumped from the ocean floor by each submersible pump tower c. ocean water ballast within multiple said docking bay barrels thereby controlling the height of the floating platform in ocean water relative to water level d. said upper deck laboratory with multiple living premises assembled on the upper deck and mounted above a welded-multiple-barrel hull built above said docking bay, whereby said living premises provide for long-term accommodation for researchers, and said laboratory provides means to analyze ocean deep water research data continuously including pH, water temperature, chemical analysis, and biological analysis of plankton pumped from the ocean floor ii. each submersible plankton pumping tower comprising: a. a long submersible tower extending from above the ocean water level to the ocean floor up to 120 feet depth constructed of multiple construction tower segments bolted to each other, each tower segment consists of multiple vertical truss segments welded together with lateral beams, and with a tower bottom-end secured to seabed dirt with multiple self-drilling metallic plungers and a top end attached above the water level to a barrel bay with cables, thereby constructing a stable construction tower submerged in ocean water, b. multiple cylinder segments bolted to each other with radial resilient seals between each segment, thereby creating a long submersible cylinder assembly with smooth cylinder bore extending from above the sea water level to up to 120 feet water depth sustaining external high water-pressure c. a submersible double-acting telescopic actuator firmly connected to a topside construction bracket of each of said submersible plankton pumping tower, extending from above the water level to 120 feet deep with an actuator end bolted to a moving piston within said cylinder bore, thereby said actuator is pushing said moving piston up and down within said cylinder bore and creating radial seal engagement with said cylinder d. said moving piston has a large through hole allowing high water and plankton flow with a check valve disk turning around a pivot pin, swinging open to allow flow upwards when the piston downwards, and said disc swinging closed when said piston moves upwards e. a bottom check valve equipped with radial seal bolted to said cylinder bottom side segment flange with a large flow hole and a check valve equipped with a disk with a pivot pin that swings open allowing water and plankton flowing from the ocean floor up when said moving piston is moving upwards, thereby filling said cylinder tube under said moving piston with water and plankton and closing flow from the ocean floor when the moving piston is moving down, iii. a T-end fitting with a lateral outlet bolted to said cylinder assembly topside flange equipped with a horizontal pipe, which has a T-fitting connection to a downward vertical pipe, thereby the water with plankton flow is directed from said cylinder segments out into said plankton pools in said docking bay said submersible vehicle tower with the manned and aerated research vehicle equipped with sealed with glass windows and with video cameras is moving vertically up and down from above the water level downwards reaching the ocean floor up to 120 feet deep by the double-acting telescopic actuator, and is aerated with two telescopic air tubes with the cylindrical internal diameter of said air tubes kept at atmospheric pressure, each tube with helical spring connected to said vehicle top on lower side and to said vehicle tower topside bracket, atmospheric pressure, each tube having one extension type helical spring connected to said vehicle top on lower side and to said vehicle tower topside bracket, comprising: a. said long submersible vehicle tower extending from above the ocean water level to the ocean floor up to 120 feet depth constructed of multiple construction tower segments bolted to each other, each consists of multiple vertical truss segments welded together with lateral beams, with tower bottom-end secured to seabed dirt with multiple self-drilling metallic plungers and a top end attached above the water level to barrel bay with cables, thereby constructing a stable construction vehicle tower submerged in ocean water, iv. said submersible double-acting telescopic actuator firmly connected to the topside construction bracket of said submersible vehicle tower, extending from above the water level to 120 feet deep with an actuator end bolted to said manned aerated vehicle top bracket, thereby said double-acting actuator is controlling said moving vehicle up and down travel within said submersible vehicle tower said submersible manned aerated vehicle has two topside through holes connected to said two telescopic air-tubes for continuous aeration with atmospheric pressure air from an air blower located on the docking bay above the sea water level and with each of two air tube inner diameter encapsulating said one extension helical spring for safety return of said vehicle to above the water level in case of any malfunction of the actuator, v. said plankton pumping tower bottom-end and said vehicle tower no bottom-end are secured to seabed dirt by multiple self-penetration and self-drilling metallic plunger powered by high water pressure cylinder and piston assembly, each comprising: a. a cement pole with long heavy cement-molded large diameter cylinder with conical downward-end b. long metallic cylinder embedded in said cement pole with a topside large diameter deep bore with smooth surface, with radial through holes connecting ocean high pressure water into the cylinder bore on the topside, extended downward with a threaded long bore with high pitch thread c. a large diameter movable piston with a radial resilient seal sliding along said embedded cylinder topside smooth bore with extended downward smaller diameter high-pitch threaded shaft, thereby topside seal slides within large diameter embedded cylinder and threaded into said lower cylinder, thereby high water pressure in the topside of the large diameter cylinder bore pushes said embedded piston downward while the threaded shaft creating helical motion inside mating thread in the lower cylinder d. said threaded piston shaft is extended out of said embedded cylinder with long plunger consisted of a threaded shank plunger with a self-drilling end made of hardened metal, thereby creating helical drilling motion by said self-drilling shank end into seabed dirt when an embedded piston sliding within said cylinder under water pressure force, thereby securing said self-penetration and a self-drilling plunger deep inside for strong support to the seabed dirt, vi. the multiple video cameras attached to the glass windows within said moving submersible manned and aerated vehicle providing continuous recorded video to screens in said living premises thereby providing scientific biological data on lives of fish and seafood deep in ocean floor up to 120 feet depth vii. a water depth gage attached to said submersible manned and aerated vehicle comprising: a. a gage cylinder with smoothly machined bore and with thru radial holes located on topside of the gage cylinder thereby connecting ocean water pressure into said cylinder bore b. a gage piston sliding within said gage cylinder having a radial groove on a piston upper side for radial sealing with a radial seal located in said radial groove in the gage piston c. a return spring guided by said gage piston shaft is pushing the gage piston upwards against pressurized piston force downward thereby piston travel against spring force until pressure force equals spring upward force d. a submersible Linear Variable Differential Transformer (LVDT) with center core firmly attached to said piston shaft and a LVDT housing transformer assembly attached to said cylinder bottom side thereby when said gage piston moves downward under ocean water pressure, the LVDT center core moved relative to said LVDT housing transformer affecting LVDT electrical output, thereby accurately reflecting depth of the submersible manned and aerated vehicle to which the gage cylinder is firmly attached, providing vehicle depth data to the upper deck laboratory.
Description
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE SEVERAL VIEWS OF THE DRAWINGS
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DETAIL DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION
(29) TABLE-US-00001 FIG. FIG. NO SHEET NUMBER NUMBER REMARKS 1 13, 97, 98, 52, 99 1 .sup. 2 11, 92, 97 1A 3 97, 11 1B 4 97, 12, 99 1C 5 27, 32, 32, 31 2 .sup. 6 16, 15, 18, 48 49, 50, 95 2A 7 98, 52, 95, 99 2B 8 16, 17, 26, 36, 93, 95 3 .sup. 9 17, 26, 28, 93, 95 3A 10 15, 19, 26, 34, 36, 51, 95 3B 11 15 3C 12 19, 37, 38, 41, 42, 44, 94, 96 4 .sup. 13 34, 56, 68, 69, 70, 71, 4A 72, 74, 77, 78 14 34, 48, 49, 50, 98 4B 15 41, 42, 43, 44, 47 5 .sup. 16 43, 44, 45 5A 17 34, 51, 52, 53, 54, 68 6 .sup. 18 52, 56, 57, 58, 61, 79 6A 19 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 6B 20 51,52, 55, 63,64, 68, 6C 69, 70, 76 21 62, 64, 67, 68, 72, 6D 76, 77, 78 22 35, 52, 53, 54, 55, 79, 7 .sup. 23 52, 53, 54, 55 7A 24 51, 53, 54, 55, 55, 56 8 .sup. 25 68, 69, 70, 74, 77, 78 8A 26 65, 67, 68, 78 9 .sup. 27 73, 74, 77, 78 9A 28 80, 81, 82, 63, 83, 10.sup. 84, 85, 86, 87, 88
(30) TABLE-US-00002 LIST OF NUMERAL REFERENCES fishery 11 FIG. 1A, 1B ocean water 12 FIG. 1C docking bay 13 FIG. 1 steel barrel 15 FIG. 2A, 3B, 3C living premises 16 FIG. 2A, 3 laboratory 17 FIG. 3, 3A Plankton pumping tower 18 FIG. 2A telescopic double acting actuator 19 FIG. 3B, 4 water ballast 26 FIG. 3, 3A, 3B hull 27 FIG. 2 hull cavity 28 FIG. 3A Plankton pool 31 FIG. 2 fish pool 32 FIG. 2 tower bolted segment 34 FIG. 3B, 4A, 4B, 6 bracket vehicle tower actuator 35 FIG. 7 bay slide 36 FIG. 3, 3B cylinder bolted segment 37 FIG. 4 radial cylinder seal 38 FIG. 4 actuator-end connected to piston 41 FIG. 4, 5 piston, moving 42 FIG. 4, 5 piston with radial seal 43 FIG. 5, 5A piston flow thru hole 44 FIG. 4, 5, 5A check valve pivot disc pin 45 FIG. 5A pump check valve disc 47 FIG. 5 pump T-end fitting lateral outlet 48 FIG. 2A, 4B pump T-end fitting lateral pipe 49 FIG. 2A, 4B pump T-end fitting vertical-pipe 50 FIG. 2A, 4B Vehicle tower 51 FIG. 3B, 6, 6C, 8 manned research vehicle 52 FIG. 1, 2B, 6, 6A, 6C, 7, 7A double-acting telescopic vehicle 53 FIG. 6, 6B, 7A, 8 actuator air supply telescopic tubes to vehicle 54 FIG. 6, 6B, 7, 7A, 8 return extension type helical spring 55 FIG. 6B, 6C, 7, 7A, 8 tower segment 56 FIG. 4A, 6A, 6B, 8 tower section truss 57 FIG. 3B, 6A, 6B tower lateral beam 58 FIG. 6A, 6B vehicle top thru air holes 61 FIG. 6A cover embedded cylinder screws 62 FIG. 6D tower bottom-end segment 63 FIG. 6C vehicle glass windows 64 FIG. 6C, 6D Inlet pipe, pump 65 FIG. 9 cement pole adaptor 67 FIG. 6D, 9 cement molded cylindrical pole 68 FIG. 4A, 6, 6C, 6D, 8A, 9 cement -molded conical end 69 FIG. 4A, 60, 8A embedded cylinder 70 FIG. 4A, 6C, 8A embedded cylinder small diameter bore 71 FIG. 4A cover, embedded cylinder 72 FIG. 4A, 6D topside embedded cylinder bore 73 FIG. 9A embedded Piston 74 FIG. 4A, 8A, 9A holes in embedded cylinder 76 FIG. 60, 6D plunger self-drilling end 77 FIG. 4A, 6D, 8A, 9A plunger Piston threaded shaft 78 FIG. 4A, 6D, 8A, 9, 9A video camera 79 FIG. 6A, 7 water depth gauge 80 FIG. 10 water depth gauge cylinder 81 FIG. 10 water depth gauge cylinder bore 82 FIG. 10 water depth gauge helical spring 83 FIG. 10 water depth gauge cylinder radial hole 84 FIG. 10 water depth gauge piston 85 FIG. 10 water depth gauge piston shaft 86 FIG. 10 water depth gauge LVDT center core 87 FIG. 10 Water depth gauge LVDT housing 88 FIG. 10 transformer assembly center island bay 92 FIG. 1A control tower 93 FIG. 3 bottom check valve 94 FIG. 4 upper deck 95 FIG. 2A, 2B, 3, 3A, 3B top bracket 96 FIG. 4 platform 97 FIG. 1, 1A, 1B, 1C Plankton pump tower 98 FIG. 1, 4B seabed dirt 99 FIG. 1, 1C, 2B
DETAIL DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION
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(32) A floating fishery 11 with multiple large ring-tubes, a large docking bay 13 for boats with multiple Plankton pools 31. An upper deck 95 is built above hull constructed of multiple layers of high buoyancy barrels welded to each other, including living premises 16 with a laboratory 17. Three Plankton pumping towers 18 and a research vehicle tower 51 equipped with a telescopic double acting actuator 53, and two air telescopic tubes 54 with two return springs 55 connecting to a submersible vehicle 52 moving down from above ocean water level and reaching down to ocean floor up to 120′ depth.
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(39) Ocean water ballast 26 within multiple barrels of the hull 27 thereby ballast added internal water weight controlling the floating height above water level of said docking bay 3 in ocean water.
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(44) Double-acting telescopic actuator 53 firmly attached to the top center bracket 96 of the Plankton pumping tower 18 extending from above water level down to 120 feet deep with actuator end 41 bolted to a moving piston 42 within said cylinder 37, thereby said actuator is moving piston with radial seal 43 engaging said cylinder and creating pressure boundary.
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(48) A bottom check valve 94 with bolted flange to the cylinder lower segment 37 with large thru flow hole and check valve with disc 47 that swings open allowing water and plankton flowing from the ocean floor up when said piston 42 moves upwards thereby filling said cylinder tube 37 with water and plankton under piston 42 when piston moves up wherein water continue flowing up through piston to outlet vertical pipe 50 when piston moves down.
(49) A T-end fitting with lateral outlet 48 connected to lateral pipe 49 which has T-fitting connected to a vertical pipe 50, thereby water with plankton flow is directed from multiple cylinder segments out into Plankton pools 31
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(53) A submersible vehicle tower 51 with submersible aerated and manned research vehicle 52 moving from water level to ocean floor up to 120 feet deep by submersible double-acting telescopic actuator 53 and aerated with two telescopic air tubes supplying air at atmospheric pressure from air blower located above water level through two holes in vehicle top. Two helical extension type return helical springs 55 guided within the telescopic air tubes connected to vehicle 52 top on lower side and to vehicle tower topside bracket assures vehicle going up to above water level in case of actuator malfunction. A long submersible vehicle tower 51 extending from above ocean water level to ocean floor up to 120 feet depth constructed with multiple tower segments 56 bolted to each other, each segment consists of beam truss sections 57 structured together with lateral steel beams 58, thereby said tower secured to ocean floor seabed and also pass through hole in docking bay 13 and attached to the docking bay with cables 59 above water level, thereby constructing stable construction tower submerged in ocean water.
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(58) The submersible double-acting telescopic high pressure actuator 53 firmly attached to the top bracket 35 of said construction tower extending from above water level to 120 feet deep with actuator end securely connected to the top of a moving submersible manned aerated vehicle 52,
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(61) The submersible manned and aerated research vehicle 52 has two top thru air holes 61 for continuous aeration at atmospheric pressure from above water level air blower through telescopic air tubes 54 Each of the air tubes inner diameter is guiding a safety return to above water level by extension helical spring 55, thereby said submersible vehicle is aerated continuously from above water and all the way to ocean floor at 120 feet deep under continuous atmospheric pressure, and either one of two springs provides fail-safe return to above water in case of actuator failure.
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