Blohm + Voss Ag

Willy Schmidt

Karl-Otto Sadler

Hans-Joachim Franz

Karl O Sadler

A warship has a unit seating extending around an opening in a ship's deck with a platform mounted in the seating and levelled relative to the main scantling plane of said warship, and a functional unit installation, e.g., a weapon or a navigational apparatus, on the platform. A container carried beneath the platform, accommodates a part of the functional unit installation. Vertically resiliently acting supports carry at least a part of the weight of the platform, the container and the installation and allow limited horizontal movement of the container relative to the supports.

Functional unit installation in a warship

On a ship, the longitudinal beams and the framework girders of different decks or of the inside bottom are arranged in identical vertical planes. In at least some of the rectangles defined by the longitudinal beams and the framework girders, there are access openings located vertically above one another. The openings in a vertical group are practically all the same size and aligned with one another vertically. Between corresponding junction points of the longitudinal beams and the framework girders above one another, vertical props running intercostally are located at the corners of each access opening. At least the third and subsequent access openings from the top are closed, preferably in a water-tight manner, by identically-sized removable access covers having at least two pieces each.

Ship having standardized access ways

Rectangular base mounting-platform structures for removable combat-equipment, for example, guns and other support units like radar which are mounted on rectangular openings on a ship-deck, are provided with interchangeability. In order to achieve interchangeability of units which have mounting-platform structures of unequal size, the platform rectangular dimensions as well as the dimensions of the corresponding rectangular openings are so designed that the base length of the smallest unit is made equal to the width of the next bigger rectangle and so forth; in order to mount the smallest rectangular base on the immediate next larger rectangular opening, the length of the smallest rectangular base is aligned with the width of the larger opening; mounting is so done as to leave an open space towards only one side, leaving only one longer side of the smallest rectangular base unsupported within the area of the mounting opening. The unsupported side is supported by a beam running under the mounting opening, which beam transfers the load to other structure which reinforces the rectangular opening. An area of the rectangular opening which is thus left uncovered is covered by a suitable covering member. The mounting of the rectangular base structure, and the covering member, as well as the ends of the beam, are provided with sealing members to render the platform-structure impervious. Three consecutive rectangular sizes are preferred wherein the width of a rectangle is the same as the length of the immediate smaller rectangle.

Interchangeable mounting system for weapon/navigational units, etc., on

Warship with standardized operating units

The weapons units of a warship may be formed in remotely prefabricated modular sub-assemblies which are capable of interchangeable mounting at different locations on the warship by an arrangement which includes a standardized adapter device structurally formed as part of the warship and defining the opening of a compartment into which the modular sub-assembly of the weapons unit is mounted. The weapons unit modular sub-assembly consists of a container within which the weapons unit is prefabricated. The weapons unit container and the adapter unit on the warship are both formed with mating structural parts having standardized sizes and configurations in order to enable interchangeability of the sub-assemblies. Although each sub-assembly may be formed with a different weapons unit, the container for the weapons unit of each sub-assembly is uniformly structured in a standardized manner complementing the adapter unit on the warship. The container unit is formed with a horizontal flange which overlies a horizontal flange of the adapter unit when the weapons sub-assembly is in mounting position. A pair of L-shaped rims, one each on the container unit and the adapter unit, respectively, form a L-shaped annular gap about the weapons sub-assembly within which resilient sealing means are poured in order to effect a fluid-tight seal between the weapons sub-assembly and the ship's structure. The horizontal flange of the adapter unit forms a platform for mounting the weapons sub-assembly and for enabling adjustment of the position and orientation of the sub-assembly prior to rigid connection thereof to the warship. Pins extending vertically upwardly from the flange of the adapter unit are located around the opening of the ship's compartment for mating engagement with alignment holes through the flange of the weapons container to effect lateral alignment of the weapons unit sub-assembly in mounting position. Adjustment of the orientation of the weapons unit is effected by screw means which extend upwardly from the adapter unit flange for abutment with the underside of the flange of the container of the weapons sub-assembly. By adjustment of the screw means, tilting of the weapons sub-assembly may be effected to adjust its orientation into a desired attitude whereby the sub-assembly may be rigidly connected to the warship by pouring of the sealing means and by fastening of attachment bolts.

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