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2. Tub boat lift - Wikipedia

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   A tub boat lift (German: Kahnhebehaus) lifts the boat out of the water. Most other types of boat lift such as locks or inclined planes are designed to move the boat afloat in some kind of water-filled tank, and, apart from maximum dimensions, are not restricted in the type of craft transported. Tub boat lifts and tub boats are designed to work ...

3. Self-propelled modular transporter - Wikipedia

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   The first modular self-propelled trailers were built in the 1970s. In the early 1980s, heavy haulage company Mammoet [ 6 ] refined the concept into the form seen today. [ 7 ] They set the width of the modules at 2.44 m, so the modules would fit on an ISO container flatrack .

4. Stuffing box - Wikipedia

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   The stuffing box prevents water from entering the boat's hull. In many small fiberglass boats, for example, the stuffing box is mounted inboard near the point the shaft exits the hull . The "box" is a cylindrical assembly, typically of bronze, comprising a sleeve threaded on one end to accept adjusting and locking nuts.

5. Intermodal container - Wikipedia

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   In 1949, while at Brown Trailers Inc. of Spokane, Washington, he modified the design of their stressed skin aluminum 30-foot trailer, to fulfil an order of two-hundred 30 by 8 by 8.5 feet (9.14 m × 2.44 m × 2.59 m) containers that could be stacked two high, for Alaska-based Ocean Van Lines. Steel castings on the top corners provided lifting ...

6. Boat lift - Wikipedia

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   A boat lift, ship lift, or lift lock is a machine for transporting boats between water at two different elevations, and is an alternative to the canal lock. It may be vertically moving, like the Anderton boat lift in England , rotational, like the Falkirk Wheel in Scotland , or operate on an inclined plane , like the Ronquières inclined plane ...

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