Installation for anchoring a floating platform to the ground

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 9233736
APP PUB NO 20140286711A1
SERIAL NO

14353877

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A system for anchoring to the ground, via chains, a floating platform, whose operating station includes:

    activatable/deactivatable stopper elements for each of the anchor chains, for locking in position the associated chain that ends by an upstream free strand including an end connection chain link, wherein the stopper elements are arranged side by side, along a same line, and are each associated with one housing-reservoir for storing the upstream free strand of the associated chain; andtensioning elements common to the different chains, and including a single tensioning winch, movably mounted above the stopper elements, wherein the tensioning winch includes a master chain strand, whose downstream end includes a downstream chain link adapted to be removably attached to the connection chain link of the upstream free strand of the anchor chains, and whose upstream end is stored in a container-reservoir.

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NOV-BLM15 RUE DE LA METALLURGIE - ZI CARQUEFOU F-44470

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Busson, Philippe Nantes, FR 14 109

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