Patent ID: 9719313
Date: 2017-08-01
CPC Classifications: B63B,E21B

Claim:
1. A handling system for handling a tubular element on a vessel in correspondence with a storage zone of the vessel and the storage zone to a feeding zone or from the feeding zone to the storage zone, the handling system comprising: a deposition seat having at least one deposition cradle; a lifting device adapted to lift or lower the tubular element between at least two positions, a first position of the at least two positions being a load position of the tubular element on said lifting device, a second position of at the at least two positions being an unload position of the tubular element from said lifting device, said first position being a position for transferring the tubular element to said lifting device within said deposition seat or a position for transferring the tubular element from said deposition seat towards another device of the handling system; a tilter device interfaced and coordinated with said lifting device, said tilter device having arms adapted to tilt the tubular element between a support position within said deposition seat and a support position on a transfer device, said transfer device adapted to transfer the tubular element to a laying zone from the loading zone for the tubular element on the vessel, said tilter device having a first component and a second component which are reciprocally aligned according to a direction corresponding to a length of the tubular element and which are reciprocally spaced by a distance greater than a width of the tubular element, each of said first component and said second component comprising a pair of supporting elements which bear the arms and which arms are rotatable by a hinge, a center of rotation of the arm of said first component being aligned with a center of rotation of the arm of said second component, said arms carrying out a rotation along planes which are reciprocally parallel planes.