| 摘要 |
The present disclosure provides a maritime fender assembly for mounting to a berthing structure, the fender assembly including: a panel assembly including an outwardly facing wear pad for contact with a vessel; a frame for releasably receiving the panel assembly; a resilient fender element mounted between the frame and the berthing structure; and an engagement means to allow engagement and disengagement of the panel assembly from the frame to allow removal and replacement of the panel assembly. The present disclosure also provides a maritime fender assembly comprising a frame carrying an outwardly facing wear pad, the frame including at least one frame-side support chain mount and at least one frame-side detensioner mount; a base mounted to the berthing structure, the base including a base-side support chain mount and a base-side detensioner mounts; a resilient fender element mounted between the frame and base; and support chains connected to a base-side support chain mount and a corresponding frame-side support chain mount, wherein the frame-side detensioner mount and base-side detensioner mount include a corresponding pair of detensioner mounts, the corresponding pair of detensioner mounts positioned to connect a detensioner between, the detensioner actuable to detension at least one support chain. The present disclosure also includes methods of maintaining such maritime fender assemblies. The present invention provides a social networking platform offering various services, such as, facilitating aggregation and management of a usr's interaction on one or more social networking platforms, offering enhanced control over the level of privacy associated with the flow of user data, offering tools to customize the user's exposure to advertisement-related content on the social networking platform(s), integrating features to control aspects of how data/content is presented to and visualized by the user, empowering the user to multicast direct messages to other users without the other users having to meet certain constraints, empowering the user to create and/or join a group based onmessaging threads, and the like. One or more of these enhanced services/features are associated with a powerful framework of authentication/permission model for access control. |
