Patent ID: 7600946

Claim:
Arrangement of motorised floating mobile systems ( 7 ; 107 ; 207 ) for moving mooring booms ( 4 A to 4 E) of boats B and floating vessels in inner harbours P, in order to translationally move said booms ( 4 A to 4 E) along a trajectory perpendicular thereto, in such a way that a manoeuvring space of boats B and floating vessels can be provided between at least two adjacent booms ( 4 ; 4 A to 4 E), whereas the other spaces between booms are closed for manoeuvring, each system including: means ( 5 ) for fixing booms or sections thereof, which are disposed in a perpendicular direction to the translation direction; means ( 9 , 10 ) which are arranged on the two ends of the system and enable said system to be attached to an identical system in the front thereof or to an attaching means arranged on the end of a pier or a fixed boom; means for translationally guiding in a direction parallel to a pier or a main pontoon, with respect to a fixed point consisting of a pile or dolphin ( 8 ) or group of piles or dolphins driven into the bottom of the inner harbour, said fixed points of said arrangement being provided to be positioned following a regular grid pattern whose axes are perpendicular and parallel to said pier or main pontoon and which has a mesh size suitable to allow the abovementioned manoeuvring of a boom or a group of adjacent booms attached by their ends, with some systems ( 107 ) being adapted to be guided by a fixed pontoon ( 3 ); and means which translationally move the booms, said arrangement moving means being controlled by means for synchronously controlling said manoeuvring.