Pneumatic floating fender with a plastic protection cover

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 9677238
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15189909

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A conventional pneumatic fender has an outer protection cover composed of used tires and steel chains. Due to the high friction coefficient at the tire side surfaces and the ship motion induced high impact forces, the lateral friction forces could be very high. These high friction forces not only increase the wearing damages at the tire side surfaces, but also cause scratching damages to the paints on the ship outer shell. A new type of outer protection cover using plastic plates is utilized to replace used tires and steel chains in order to reduce the wearing damages to the fender and to reduce the scratching damages to ship outer shell paints. Such reduction should be able to help the shipping industry achieve cost savings from decrease of scheduled ship re-paintings in dry docks.

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SHANDONG NANHAI AIRBAG ENGINEERING CO LTD250299 SHUANGSHAN NORTH ROAD 5608 SHUANGSHAN STREET ZHANGQIU DISTRICT JINAN CITY SHANDONG PROVINCE JINAN CITY SHANDONG PROVINCE 250299

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Dianhua, Zhao Jinan, CN 1 0
Guangfeng, Yu Jinan, CN 1 0
Lee, William Wei Arcadia, US 5 9
Qingling, Duan Jinan, CN 1 0

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