Classifications

• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B63—SHIPS OR OTHER WATERBORNE VESSELS; RELATED EQUIPMENT
  • B63B—SHIPS OR OTHER WATERBORNE VESSELS; EQUIPMENT FOR SHIPPING 
  • B63B15/00—Superstructures, deckhouses, wheelhouses or the like; Arrangements or adaptations of masts or spars, e.g. bowsprits
  • B63B15/02—Staying of masts or of other superstructures
• • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
  • B63—SHIPS OR OTHER WATERBORNE VESSELS; RELATED EQUIPMENT
  • B63H—MARINE PROPULSION OR STEERING
  • B63H9/00—Marine propulsion provided directly by wind power
  • B63H9/04—Marine propulsion provided directly by wind power using sails or like wind-catching surfaces
  • B63H9/06—Types of sail; Constructional features of sails; Arrangements thereof on vessels

Definitions

• the present invention relates to a vellum propellant on an adjustable plate, making it possible to position the sails always having the best aerodynamic efficiency and the optimum regi age, whatever the angle of attack of the wind on the vélic surfaces, or compared to the axis of the powered mobile.
• the mast or masts can pivot at a certain angle relative to the axis of the ship or from the neutral position.
• Some shrouds or props can be moved to one side or the other from their point of origin.
• the largest part of the guy wire may be taken at fixed points on the hull or the support.
• the different mast or shroud movement adjustments are not made simultaneously or automatically and run the risk of breaking the suspension by momentary imbalance in the tension of the shrouds.
• the vellum thruster on an adjustable plate makes it possible to avoid these drawbacks, to facilitate the operation of all of the sails, to increase the yield thereof by a better arrangement, a more complete and more precise adjustment.
• the vélique propellant on orientable plate consists of the mast 6, sails 4 and 5, of all the shroud 7, of the fittings and the material necessary for the good functioning of the system, di sposés and positioned, on a plate 3 in order to maintain the assembly in the place calculated and planned. All the efforts, constraints and work, resulting from the energy received by the wing are transmitted to the turntable, constituting a functional, independent unit, which can be put in place on any mobile, ship or other land vehicles.
• I1 can take all the positions IO, II, with respect to the carrier vehicle propuis can be stopped in a determined position during all the time necessary for the operation of the system at the planned setting, for each requested operation.
• the adjustment is progressive.
• the system can be left free or feathered.
• Each element of the vélique propeller on orientable plate is adjustable punctually, such as, mast, sails, booms of sail and jib, halyards, carriages, winches, plate ...,
• the operation of the system as a whole and in detail is mechanical, or hydraulic, or electrical, or manual or mixed. It is direct, assisted, subject or enslaved, or programmed.
• This essential assembly, mast, rigging, wing, turntable, is arranged on a support 2, which is a raceway situated around the theoretical axis of the mast or of the wing.
• the raceway is integral with the vehicle to be propelled. It can be produced by rails of all metals or alloys, or reinforced or unreinforced plastic, of solid wood or slat.
• the profile of the rails can be tubular, or of any conventional section or made up on request.
• the adaptation and the sliding of the swiveling and swiveling plate, on the raceway are obtained using trolleys, skids, slides, boogie, sleds, equipped with roller bearings, roller bearings, rollers , of wheels, or by anti-friction plates based on suitable materials, such as regulates steel smelting, special steels, Teflon and other anti-friction materials metallic, plastic or chemical.
• the raceway and its adaptation to the guide plate guide the latter in part or entirely in its rotational movement to orient the vélique plane. All the stresses undergone by the turntable orien table, are transmitted to the raceway by the adaptation of one on the other, according to each specific case according to the use, the size of the material, the work To give back. There is no lower or upper limit.
• a support is arranged under the theoretical axis 9, of the mast or of the vélique plane in order to complete the action of the raceway and to support the compressive forces.
• the mast is classic or thick and wing-shaped. They can be made of light alloy, and other machined or boiled metals, of synthetic resin reinforced with glass fibers, carbon, boron, metallic fibers, solid wood or lamella or composite.
• the shrouding can be in cables, bars of all sections, in ropes, manufactured in all metals, synthetic materials such as nylon, kevlar, polyamide, boron carbon fiber and all materials used in products having to resist traction.
• the mast can be maintained by an unlimited number of guy lines, and the arrangement of which between the mast and the turntable depends on the desired adaptation.
• the stiffening of the mast can be obtained by spreaders and horns.
• the main sail coming on the mast can be soft, rigid, battened, carried out in all fabrics of chemical origin, plastic, vegetable, mineral or metallic, or carried out in metal panels, wood reinforced plastic, skins. There can be several jibs 4,
• the anchor points of the shrouds and any part necessary for the proper functioning of the system, the tack or listening points of the sails can be located inside or outside the raceway, or pushed well outside. by outriggers, outriggers, or extensions or appendages of the turntable.
• the system works with a single vellum thruster on an adjustable plate or with the aid of several thruster systems arranged on the propelled carrier mobile, and adapted to the desired function.
• the propellant vélique on orientable plate can be used on all ships or terrestrial machines having to be propelled by the wind force. It is adaptable to existing equipment, to be created or future studies: such as pleasure boats, merchant ships, fishing, service, study, trains of ragons to road vehicles or pistards, has skips or platforms carried by rail or cable.

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