Launching Airbag

Air Balloon For Ship Lifting:
1. High strength
2. Wear resistance and anti-aging
3. Good air tightness

1. Description of LuHang Air Balloon For Ship Lifting:
Air Balloons are also called air bags, marine bags. Ship airbag up-to-slipway launching is an advanced technology with bight prospect, which has got over the shortcomings of previous ship building factory's traditional technology-being restricted to sliding way, elevator box, etc, and developed into a flexible up & down-to-slipway technology, with such advantages as labor saving, time saving, strength saving, investment saving, being flexible, safe, reliable, and obvious economic benefit.

A. How has the ships and marine technology-Ship launching air balloons developed?

Over the past twenty years, the airbag ship launching system has made advancements in not only the air bag, but also the ship launching/landing technology. The first generation air bags used a rubber dipped canvas as a reinforcement layer to form the air chamber trunk. Two cone-shaped molds were then used to make the ends and everything was stuck together.
With today's air bags, the whole-enlacing-technology used for manufacturing is done together. Rubber dipped synthetic-tyre-cords are used as the reinforcement layers with the trunk and two cone-shaped ends made at the same time. Everything is then-laced together, so the air bag doesn't have any joints. Due to the development of rubber chemistry, the performance of the rubber employed in the latest air bags is highly enhanced and about 15 times that of the first generation bag with the same specifications.
The launching and landing technology has also developed. In the beginning, only small and flat bottom ships located on a fabricated slope could be launched with air bags. Now this technology is more flexible and less limited by the ship and landform. Now any type of ship with a DWT below 55, 000 and in a place with enough launching space can be launched using air bags. The launching slope even can be sloped upward. It has really developed into a cutting edge technology for launching ships, and especially useful for some marine emergencies.

B. What are the advantageous to using this system over traditional ship launching techniques?
An air bag ship launching system does not need the traditional fabricated slipway so it saves time, investment, land, etc. Air bags need no extra maintenance and after use they can be cleaned and folded in the corner to wait for another mission. It is easy to find that air bags' elasticity can give more protection to the launched ship. A remarkable character of air bags is that the working height can be changed to redirect the ship or object being launched by adjusting the inner air pressure. For this character it is peerless compared to traditional ship launching techniques.
C. LuHang Ship Launching and Pulling Air Balloons are not only used for ships, floating docks and caisson launching but they are also cutting edge for ship landing, heavy transport, marine salvage, etc. It is a versatile tool for many marine applications.