PONTOON FOR TRANSPORTATION OF OBJECTS Russian patent published in 2016 - IPC B63C7/04 B63B35/34 

FIELD: ship building.

SUBSTANCE: invention relates to ship building, specifically to pontoons, intended for transportation of objects along internal waterways. Pontoon for transportation of objects comprises a body, ballast compartments, air box, sling niches (hawses), a system of flooding and blowing ballast compartments, assemblies for attaching pontoons to transported object, lashing units, device for stretching slings, kit with replaceable frames. Body is made in form of trapezoid and is divided into ballast compartments. Ballast compartments are connected to each other in lower part through scuppers in transverse bulkheads. Device for stretching slings is made in form of cells from a set of wooden bars. Shape of replaceable frames corresponds to hulls of object at point of contact of pontoon with body of object. Device for stretching slings is equipped with double sling-lifting ring, sole of which is made in form of a sector describing a cell of a circle.

EFFECT: safer transportation of an object on pontoons.

1 cl, 7 dwg