DETACHABLE FLOATING CRAFT AND CRAFTS HINGE JOINT UNIT Russian patent published in 2018 - IPC B63B35/00 

FIELD: shipbuilding.

SUBSTANCE: invention relates to the field of shipbuilding and the detachable floating crafts operation. Detachable floating craft includes a group of separate floating modules in the form of a parallelepiped connected to each other by angularly located units of the detachable connection having locking devices and standard angular container fittings. Floating modules hulls are made hollow or filled with the filling agent, and on the floating modules edges two or more standard intermediate fittings with fixing devices are arranged allowing the floating modules docking in checkerboard order. Floating equipment swivel joint assembly includes a pair of single-jaw butt hinges located at the tip of one floating craft, which contain spherical bearings, as well as in the extremities of the floating crafts to be connected, transverse links are made in the form of shackles connected to horizontal jaws fixed on adjacent floating crafts by means of pins and spherical bearings.

EFFECT: enabling improvement in the floating craft overall strength with the simplification of the transportation, assembly and disassembly of the floating craft and the reduction of the current total bending moment between the floating crafts individual sections.

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