Patent ID: 6199500
Filing Date: 2001-03-13
Classification: B63B

Abstract:
Device by ship (10) for enabling application of the ship both as production ship, in which it works together with a so-called STL-buoy (30), and as test production ship, in which it does not co-operate with such a buoy, and in which the ship (10) has a pit (14, 12) extending vertically therethrough, in which a turret (16) is pivotally supported having a vertical axis of rotation (A--A), and is to be connected, when the ship is used as production ship, to said buoy (30) which has a conical upward tapering upper portion, and in which the lower cavity portion (12) of the pit (14, 12) has an essentially complementary configuration to facilitate the insertion of the buoy (30) or its upper portion respectively, and subsequently the pivotal reception thereof, in the conical, lower cavity portion (12) of the pit (14, 12), characterized in that the turret (16) can be lifted/lowered in the upper portion (14) of the pit (14,12) and has a lower, working position in which its lower end is located immediately above said complementarily shaped, lower pit portion (12) for the buoy (30), and that the turret (16) at its upper end portion has an annular supporting flange (16') favouring and facilitating its pivotal mounting in relation to the ship's hull and does not interfere in the lifting/lowering of the turret, but is determinative for its lower, working position.