Ship's door or hatch arrangement

US4665653A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Blohm & Voss GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Hans-Joachim Franz · Kölln-Reisiek, DE
• Jurgen Hommola · Hamburg, DE
• Bernd Langensiepen · Hamburg, DE
• Wolfgang Eckhardt · Lörrach, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Jul 15, 1985
• Grant date: May 19, 1987
• Expiry date: Jul 15, 2005

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B63B43/32
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

The invention concerns a ship's door or ship's frame arrangement which is provided with a door frame and a removable door leaf mounted in it. Peripherally mounted on one of the mutually facing peripheral edges of the frame and the door leaf and serving as a dynamic seal is an elastic tube which is connected to a pressure medium source and which, when pressurized, presses between the peripheral edges of the frame and the door leaf, thereby forming a seal between them and, when depressurized, lifts away from the opposite peripheral edges to form an annular clearance. In addition to the dynamic seal, a peripheral static seal is provided which serves as a spray-guard.