Apparatus for spooling umbilical cable (305 fig. 3) or wire rope onto a winch drum 504 without exceeding the minimum bend radius of the cable (305 fig. 3) or wire rope comprises a carriage 503 mounted on a screw thread 402 and configured to move on the screw thread 402 across the winch drum 504 and the carriage 503 comprises two sheave wheels 501, 502 arranged either side of a tangent line 507 between the two sheave wheels 501, 502, the first sheave wheel 502 is a lower fixed sheave wheel 502, and the second sheave wheel 501 is an upper sheave wheel 501 configured to pivot about two bearings 505, 506 positioned on the vertical tangent line 507 between the lower fixed wheel 502 and the upper sheave wheel 501.
Apparatus and method for spooling umbilical cable or wire rope
2015-09-02
Patent
Electronic Resource
English
IPC: | B66D Haspeln , CAPSTANS / B63C LAUNCHING, HAULING-OUT, OR DRY-DOCKING OF VESSELS , Zuwasserlassen, Trockenstellen, Docken oder Bergen von Schiffen / B63G OFFENSIVE OR DEFENSIVE ARRANGEMENTS ON VESSELS , Angriffs- oder Verteidigungsanordnungen auf Schiffen / E21B EARTH OR ROCK DRILLING , Erd- oder Gesteinsbohren |
Apparatus and method for spooling umbilical cable or wire rope
European Patent Office | 2015
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