Multi-service pedestal

Abstract

A multi-service pedestal ( 1 ) in particular for ports and marinas, being provided with a support structure ( 10 ) and adapted to provide a variety of utilities, such as electricity, tap water, telephone and television connections, to a cruiser moored at a pier or quay, further has a central conditioning apparatus ( 6 ) which is located in the multi-service pedestal ( 1 ) and is adapted to be connected to a terminal unit ( 18 ) onboard the moored cruiser for conditioning the air within it through the heat exchange with a conditioning liquid. The support structure ( 10 ) has a front side ( 11 ) on which a computer screen ( 5 ) is installed.

1 . A multi-service pedestal ( 1 ;  20 ;  54 ;  75 ), in particular for ports and marinas, being provided with a support structure ( 10 ;  21 ;  55 ;  76 ) and adapted to supply a variety of utilities, such as electricity, tap water, telephone and television connections, to a cruiser (C) moored at a pier (P) or quay, characterized in that the multiservice pedestal ( 1 ;  20 ;  54 ;  75 ) further comprises a central conditioning apparatus ( 6 ) which is located in the multi-service pedestal ( 1 ;  20 ;  54 ;  75 ) and is adapted to be connected to a terminal unit ( 18 ) onboard the moored cruiser (C) for conditioning the air within it by heat exchange with a conditioning liquid. 
     
     
         2 . The multi-service pedestal ( 1 ;  20 ;  54 ;  75 ) according to  claim 1 , wherein the central conditioning apparatus ( 6 ) includes a working fluid, an open loop heat exchanger ( 47 ) for a heat exchange between said working fluid and cooling water, a suction pump ( 7 ) of cooling water for the open loop heat exchanger ( 47 ), a closed loop heat exchanger ( 48 ) for said working fluid of the central conditioning apparatus ( 6 ) with a delivery pipe ( 16 ) for sending said conditioning liquid at a selected temperature to the terminal unit ( 18 ) and a return tube ( 17 ) from it, and wherein the terminal unit ( 18 ) is a fan coil for the conditioning liquid equipped with a thermostat ( 37 ), the fan coil being connected to the closed loop heat exchanger ( 48 ) with said delivery tubes ( 16 ) and return ( 17 ). 
     
     
         3 . The multi-service pedestal ( 1 ;  20 ;  54 ;  75 ) according to  claim 2 , wherein said open loop heat exchanger ( 47 ) has a coaxial tubing in which an inner pipe serves for the circulation of the working fluid of the central unit conditioning ( 6 ), and an outer tube serves for the circulation of cooling water, the open loop heat exchanger ( 47 ) having an inlet end, in which there is a probe (S 3 ) for the detection of the temperature. 
     
     
         4 . The multi-service pedestal ( 1 ;  20 ;  54 ;  75 ) according to  claim 2 , wherein said closed loop heat exchanger ( 48 ) has a coaxial tubing in which an inner pipe serves for the circulation of the conditioning liquid of the fan coil ( 18 ), and an outer pipe serves for the circulation of the working liquid of the central conditioning apparatus, the closed loop heat exchanger ( 48 ) having opposite ends in each of which there are probes (S 1 , S 2 ) for the detection of the temperature. 
     
     
         5 . The multi-service pedestal ( 1 ;  20 ;  54 ;  75 ) according to  claim 2 , wherein said delivery and return pipes ( 16 ,  17 ) connecting said central conditioning apparatus ( 6 ) and said fan coil are individually coated with insulating material and joined together with a retaining means which retains a flanked electric cable ( 33 ) of the thermostat ( 37 ) of the fan coil. 
     
     
         6 . The multi-service pedestal ( 1 ;  20 ;  54 ;  75 ) according to  claim 2 , wherein provided in the return pipe ( 17 ) from said fan coil are a reservoir of conditioning liquid ( 52 ) and a pump ( 53 ). 
     
     
         7 . The multi-service pedestal ( 1 ;  20 ;  54 ;  75 ) according to  claim 2 , wherein said central conditioning apparatus ( 6 ) comprises a compressor ( 39 ) for the working fluid, a four-way valve ( 40 ), a four-way coil ( 41 ), a suction separator and receiver ( 42 ) of the working fluid in liquid phase, a filter ( 43 ) and a thermostatic valve ( 44 ), as well as high and low pressure switches ( 45 ,  46 ). 
     
     
         8 . The multi-service pedestal ( 1 ) according to  claim 1 , wherein said support structure ( 10 ) is a hollow load bearing structure extending upwards, having a front side ( 11 ) from which a computer screen ( 5 ) protrudes, and a rear side ( 12 ) provided with a door ( 13 ) openable for access to the inside of the hollow load bearing structure in which said central conditioning apparatus ( 6 ) is mounted lower and said variety of utilities are mounted upper, as accessible through said door ( 13 ). 
     
     
         9 . The multi-service pedestal ( 20 ) according to  claim 1 , wherein said support structure ( 21 ) has a profile shaped in form of an omega rotated upward and having a lower part ( 22 ) connected to a support plate ( 25 ), an upper part ( 24 ) in which a computer screen ( 5 ) is placed in front, and a central recess ( 23 ) configured for removably receiving a housing ( 28 ) for said central conditioning apparatus ( 6 ). 
     
     
         10 . The multi-service pedestal ( 20 ) according to  claim 8 , wherein said support structure ( 21 ) is provided in front with a panel coating ( 26 ), the frontal width of the support structure ( 21 ) being less than that of the panel coating ( 26 ). 
     
     
         11 . The multi-service pedestal ( 54 ;  75 ) according to  claim 1 , wherein said support structure ( 55 ;  76 ) has a squared S-shaped profile, extending upward in a rearward inclined portion ( 58 ;  79 ) for receiving a computer screen ( 5 ), the squared S-shaped profile comprising a C-shaped recess intended to removably receive said central conditioning apparatus ( 6 ), and a lower part in the form of an inverted L ( 56 ;  77 ). 
     
     
         12 . The multi-service pedestal ( 54 ) according to  claim 10 , wherein said support structure ( 55 ) is provided in front with a panel coating ( 59 ), the frontal width of the support structure ( 55 ) being equal to that of the panel coating ( 59 ). 
     
     
         13 . The multi-service pedestal ( 54 ) according to  claim 10 , wherein the lower part of the support structure ( 55 ) is adapted to receive stably a variety of utilities. 
     
     
         14 . The multi-service pedestal ( 75 ) according to  claim 10 , wherein the C-shaped recess ( 78 ) is pivoted by cylindrical hinges ( 80 ) to the lower part in the form of an inverted L ( 77 ), so that removably located on the lower part in the form of inverted L ( 77 ) is a housing ( 81 ) for a variety of utilities, said housing ( 81 ) being capable of being removed from the multi-service pedestal ( 75 ) by turning up the C-shaped recess ( 78 ), after removal of the central conditioning apparatus ( 6 ) from the C-shaped recess ( 78 ).