EP1213220A1 - Guiding device for sails - Google Patents

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EP1213220A1
EP1213220A1 EP01403060A EP01403060A EP1213220A1 EP 1213220 A1 EP1213220 A1 EP 1213220A1 EP 01403060 A EP01403060 A EP 01403060A EP 01403060 A EP01403060 A EP 01403060A EP 1213220 A1 EP1213220 A1 EP 1213220A1
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  • the present invention relates to a device for guiding a sail of sailing boat, at the opening of the throat of a mast or part secured to the mast, in which the headline of the sail engages. She can also concern any spar including a groove intended to send a battened sail.
  • the mainsail is fixed to the mast at by means of a rope which slides in a mast groove, or even in an integral part (for example articulated) extending all along the mast.
  • the luff line is not necessarily in the axis of the throat, this which causes a significant friction at the entrance of the throat of a nature to brake and wear, or even jam, the headline between the lips of the throat at the level of the the above orifice.
  • the invention starts from the idea that the sail can be fitted with a second rope or even with rope sections which, by cooperating with appropriate guide means, ensures the passage slats without blocking at the headline guide while maintaining the orientation of the luff line in the axis of the throat opening.
  • this device is characterized in that the elements of guide have, on the side opposite the groove, outer guide edges, and in that said veil comprises at least one protuberance located at a distance from the luff line substantially equal to the distance separating the said outer edges of the entrance to the groove, so that this protuberance comes to bear and is guided by said outer edges, in preventing the sail from becoming wedged between the guide elements and cannot disturb the passage of the headline through the throat.
  • the above protuberance may consist of a second headline extending parallel to the luff line, on all its length.
  • the sail may include the right to each of the slats a protuberance or portion of a line, curved or in V shape of concavity oriented opposite the luff line.
  • This solution has the advantage of limiting. the thickness of sail wound on the reel.
  • the reel-reducer mainsail 10 is mounted inside a boom 1 which consists of a tubular element 13 closed at each of its ends 4 and 5, and comprising a longitudinal slot 3 allowing the passage of the mainsail 10.
  • the element tubular 13 closes a winding tube 2 substantially coaxial with the element tubular 13 around which the mainsail 10 is wound.
  • the tube reel 2 is rotatably mounted along its longitudinal axis and is integral with a 8 coaxial drum allowing its rotational training thanks to a rope operation 9.
  • the luff line 12 of the mainsail 10 is maintained parallel to the mast 11 and so that the mainsail 10 can be rolled up without folds around the winding tube 2 despite the boom head position of the drum 8
  • the luff line 12 is threaded using the headrest 34 into the throat longitudinal 14 of a profiled element 15 which is fixed to the mast 11 by means of support parts 16 and 17.
  • the profiled element 15 is kept at a distance of the mast 11 so that the luff line part 12 of the part of the deployed sail is always in line with the headline portion of luff 12 wrapped around the winder tube 2.
  • the profiled element 15 is articulated to the support pieces 16, 17 by means of connecting pieces 19, while being subject to the movements of boom 1 in a plane perpendicular to mast 11.
  • the slot 20 opening the groove 14 of the profiled element 15 always remains oriented along the longitudinal axis of boom 1, regardless of the angle formed between boom 1 and the longitudinal axis of the boat. This reduces friction forces acting between the groove 14 and the veil 10 when the latter is not exactly in the axis of the slot 20 of the groove 14.
  • the mainsail 10 is provided with a series of slats horizontal 21 regularly spaced from each other. This solution has effect for the purpose of stiffening the sail 10 and thus offering the possibility to use a sail 10 having a larger surface.
  • the mainsail 10 comprises a second continuous luff 22 which extends parallel to the luff luff 12 to a predetermined distance therefrom.
  • This second rope 22 is intended to cooperate with a device for guide 23, visible in FIG. 2, arranged in the vicinity of the entrance to the groove 14.
  • This device comprises two guide elements 24, 25 oblong located in look of the orifice of the groove 14 substantially on either side of the latter. These two elements 24 and 25 are adjustable in distance from one another. They are spaced from each other by a distance slightly greater than the thickness of the sail 10 so as to delimit a passage through which the portion of sail 10 between the two line 12 and 22.
  • the two guide elements 24 and 25 are carried by two respective cheeks 26, 27 fixed to the profiled element 15. They can be fixed and have a oblong shape suitable for guiding without damaging the second headline 22. As a variant, these elements 24 and 25 could consist of rollers rotatably mounted on the cheeks 26 and 27, around a common axis perpendicular to the plane of the sail 10 so as to guide the line 12 in the axis of the entrance to the groove 14.
  • the two guide elements 24 and 25 can be carried by two respective cheeks 28 and 29 fixed to the mast 11 by rivets 30, 31.
  • the sail 10 then comprises at least as many segments, or protuberances, of headline 31 than of slats 21, said protuberances 22 being located near the ends of the slats 21.
  • These headline segments 31 may be rectilinear. However, they can advantageously present curved shapes for example in V, of concavity oriented opposite the first headline 12 so as to constitute two successive guide ramps 32, 33 which extend obliquely to the vertical ( Figure 4).
  • These ramps 32, 33 are intended to come to bear on the guide elements 24, 25 by moving the ends of the slats 11 away from the entrance to the groove 14.
  • this solution has the advantage of reduce the extra thicknesses when the mainsail 10 is wrapped around the hose reel 2.

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The guide intervenes near the entrance of the groove (14) in which the huff bolt rope (12) is engaged. It consists of two guide elements (24,25) which have on sides opposite the groove external guide edges. The sail comprises a protuberance (22) located at a distance from the huff bolt rope which is supported and guided by the external edges.

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La présente invention a pour objet un dispositif pour le guidage d'une voile de bateau à voile, au niveau de l'orifice de la gorge d'un mât ou d'une pièce solidaire du mât, dans laquelle s'engage la ralingue de la voile. Elle peut aussi concerner tout espar comprenant une gorge destinée à envoyer une voile lattée.The present invention relates to a device for guiding a sail of sailing boat, at the opening of the throat of a mast or part secured to the mast, in which the headline of the sail engages. She can also concern any spar including a groove intended to send a battened sail.

Elle concerne également une voile spécialement conçue de manière à pouvoir être utilisée dans ce dispositif de guidage.It also relates to a sail specially designed so as to be able to be used in this guidance device.

D'une façon générale, on sait que dans les bateaux à voile dont la bôme est équipée d'un enrouleur-réducteur de voilure, la grand-voile est fixée au mât au moyen d'une ralingue qui coulisse dans une gorge du mât, voire même dans une pièce solidaire (par exemple articulée) s'étendant tout le long du mât.Generally, we know that in sailing boats whose boom is equipped with a winding-reducing gear, the mainsail is fixed to the mast at by means of a rope which slides in a mast groove, or even in an integral part (for example articulated) extending all along the mast.

Il s'avère que lors des manoeuvres de gréement pour envoyer une voile, la ralingue de guindant ne se présente pas forcément dans l'axe de la gorge, ce qui provoque un frottement important à l'entrée de la gorge de nature à freiner et user, voire coincer, la ralingue entre les lèvres de la gorge au niveau du susdit orifice.It turns out that during rigging maneuvers to send a sail, the luff line is not necessarily in the axis of the throat, this which causes a significant friction at the entrance of the throat of a nature to brake and wear, or even jam, the headline between the lips of the throat at the level of the the above orifice.

Pour éviter cet inconvénient, on a tout d'abord proposé d'utiliser un guide-ralingue disposé à l'entrée de la gorge de manière à orienter la ralingue dans l'axe de l'ouverture de la gorge. Toutefois, cette solution n'est pas satisfaisante, notamment dans le cas de voiles lattées, du fait que sous l'action du vent, la voile se gonfle tandis que les lattes viennent buter sur le guide-ralingue, ce qui provoque une usure prématurée de la voile et éventuellement son coincement, en rendant dans tous les cas la manoeuvre de la voile très délicate.To avoid this drawback, it was first proposed to use a rope guide arranged at the entrance to the throat so as to orient the headline in the axis of the throat opening. However, this solution is not satisfactory, especially in the case of battened sails, because under the action of the wind, the veil inflates while the slats come up against the headline guide, which causes premature wear of the sail and possibly its jamming, in all cases making the operation of the sail very delicate.

En vue de supprimer cet inconvénient, l'invention part de l'idée que la voile peut être munie d'une seconde ralingue voire même de portions de ralingue qui, en coopérant avec des moyens de guidage appropriés, assure le passage des lattes sans blocage au niveau du guide-ralingue tout en maintenant l'orientation de la ralingue de guindant dans l'axe de l'ouverture de la gorge.In order to eliminate this drawback, the invention starts from the idea that the sail can be fitted with a second rope or even with rope sections which, by cooperating with appropriate guide means, ensures the passage slats without blocking at the headline guide while maintaining the orientation of the luff line in the axis of the throat opening.

En conséquence, elle propose un dispositif de guidage faisant intervenir deux éléments de guidage situés au voisinage de l'orifice de la gorge, sensiblement de part et d'autre de celle-ci, ces deux éléments étant écartés l'un de l'autre d'une distance légèrement supérieure à l'épaisseur de la voile de manière à délimiter un passage dans l'axe dudit orifice, par lequel la voile peut passer.Consequently, it proposes a guidance device involving two guide elements located in the vicinity of the orifice of the groove, substantially on either side of it, these two elements being separated from one another from a distance slightly greater than the thickness of the sail so as to delimit a passage in the axis of said orifice, through which the sail can pass.

Selon l'invention, ce dispositif est caractérisé en ce que les éléments de guidage présentent, du côté opposé à la gorge, des bords extérieurs de guidage, et en ce que ladite voile comprend au moins une protubérance située à une distance de la ralingue de guindant sensiblement égale à la distance séparant lesdits bords extérieurs de l'entrée de la gorge, de manière à ce que cette protubérance vienne en appui et soit guidée par lesdits bords extérieurs, en évitant que la voile ne puisse venir se coincer entre les éléments de guidage et ne puisse pas perturber le passage de la ralingue dans la gorge.According to the invention, this device is characterized in that the elements of guide have, on the side opposite the groove, outer guide edges, and in that said veil comprises at least one protuberance located at a distance from the luff line substantially equal to the distance separating the said outer edges of the entrance to the groove, so that this protuberance comes to bear and is guided by said outer edges, in preventing the sail from becoming wedged between the guide elements and cannot disturb the passage of the headline through the throat.

Avantageusement, la susdite protubérance pourra consister en une deuxième ralingue s'étendant parallèlement à la ralingue de guindant, sur toute sa longueur. Advantageously, the above protuberance may consist of a second headline extending parallel to the luff line, on all its length.

Toutefois, dans le cas de voiles à lattes, la voile pourra comprendre au droit de chacune des lattes une protubérance ou portion de ralingue, incurvée ou en forme de V de concavité orientée à l'opposé de la ralingue de guindant. Cette solution présente l'avantage de limiter. l'épaisseur de voile enroulée sur l'enrouleur.However, in the case of slatted sails, the sail may include the right to each of the slats a protuberance or portion of a line, curved or in V shape of concavity oriented opposite the luff line. This solution has the advantage of limiting. the thickness of sail wound on the reel.

Des modes d'exécution de l'invention seront décrits ci-après, à titre d'exemples non limitatifs, avec référence aux dessins annexés dans lesquels :

  • La figure 1 est une coupe verticale schématique illustrant le principe d'un enrouleur-réducteur de grand-voile équipé d'un dispositif de guidage selon l'invention ;
  • La figure 2 est une coupe horizontale schématique selon AA' de la figure 1 ;
  • La figure 3 est une coupe horizontale schématique d'un dispositif de guidage selon une variante de l'invention ;
  • La figure 4 est une vue en élévation d'une grand-voile à lattes munie de protubérances en forme de V, utilisable dans le dispositif représenté figure 3.
    • Embodiments of the invention will be described below, by way of nonlimiting examples, with reference to the appended drawings in which:
  • Figure 1 is a schematic vertical section illustrating the principle of a mainsail reel-reducer equipped with a guide device according to the invention;
  • Figure 2 is a schematic horizontal section along AA 'of Figure 1;
  • Figure 3 is a schematic horizontal section of a guide device according to a variant of the invention;
  • FIG. 4 is an elevation view of a slatted mainsail provided with V-shaped protrusions, usable in the device represented in FIG. 3.

    • Dans l'exemple représenté sur les figures 1 et 2, l'enrouleur-réducteur de grand-voile 10 est monté à l'intérieur d'une bôme 1 qui se compose d'un élément tubulaire 13 fermé à chacune de ses extrémités 4 et 5, et comprenant une fente 3 longitudinale permettant le passage de la grand-voile 10. L'élément tubulaire 13 referme un tube enrouleur 2 sensiblement coaxial à l'élément tubulaire 13 autour duquel vient s'enrouler la grand-voile 10. Le tube enrouleur 2 est monté rotatif suivant son axe longitudinal et est solidaire d'un tambour 8 coaxial permettant son entraínement en rotation grâce à un cordage de manoeuvre 9.In the example shown in Figures 1 and 2, the reel-reducer mainsail 10 is mounted inside a boom 1 which consists of a tubular element 13 closed at each of its ends 4 and 5, and comprising a longitudinal slot 3 allowing the passage of the mainsail 10. The element tubular 13 closes a winding tube 2 substantially coaxial with the element tubular 13 around which the mainsail 10 is wound. The tube reel 2 is rotatably mounted along its longitudinal axis and is integral with a 8 coaxial drum allowing its rotational training thanks to a rope operation 9.

    Pour que la ralingue de guindant 12 de la grand-voile 10 soit maintenue parallèle au mât 11 et ainsi que la grand-voile 10 puisse être enroulée sans plis autour du tube enrouleur 2 malgré la position en tête de bôme du tambour 8, la ralingue de guindant 12 est enfilée à l'aide de la têtière 34 dans la gorge longitudinale 14 d'un élément profilé 15 qui est fixé au mât 11 au moyen de pièces de support 16 et 17. Ainsi, l'élément profilé 15 est maintenu à distance du mât 11 de manière à ce que la portion de ralingue de guindant 12 de la partie de la voile déployée soit toujours à l'aplomb de la portion de ralingue de guindant 12 enroulée autour du tube enrouleur 2.So that the luff line 12 of the mainsail 10 is maintained parallel to the mast 11 and so that the mainsail 10 can be rolled up without folds around the winding tube 2 despite the boom head position of the drum 8, the luff line 12 is threaded using the headrest 34 into the throat longitudinal 14 of a profiled element 15 which is fixed to the mast 11 by means of support parts 16 and 17. Thus, the profiled element 15 is kept at a distance of the mast 11 so that the luff line part 12 of the part of the deployed sail is always in line with the headline portion of luff 12 wrapped around the winder tube 2.

    Avantageusement, l'élément profilé 15 est articulé aux pièces de support 16, 17 grâce à des pièces de liaison 19, tout en étant assujetti aux mouvements de la bôme 1 dans un plan perpendiculaire au mât 11. De cette manière, la fente 20 d'ouverture de la gorge 14 de l'élément profilé 15 reste toujours orientée suivant l'axe longitudinal de la bôme 1, et ce quel que soit l'angle formé entre la bôme 1 et l'axe longitudinal du bateau. On réduit ainsi les forces de friction s'exerçant entre la gorge 14 et la voile 10 lorsque celle-ci n'est pas exactement dans l'axe de la fente 20 de la gorge 14.Advantageously, the profiled element 15 is articulated to the support pieces 16, 17 by means of connecting pieces 19, while being subject to the movements of boom 1 in a plane perpendicular to mast 11. In this way, the slot 20 opening the groove 14 of the profiled element 15 always remains oriented along the longitudinal axis of boom 1, regardless of the angle formed between boom 1 and the longitudinal axis of the boat. This reduces friction forces acting between the groove 14 and the veil 10 when the latter is not exactly in the axis of the slot 20 of the groove 14.

    Dans cet exemple, la grand-voile 10 est munie d'une série de lattes horizontales 21 régulièrement espacées les unes des autres. Cette solution a en effet pour fonction de rigidifier la voile 10 et d'offrir ainsi la possibilité d'utiliser une voile 10 présentant une plus grande surface.In this example, the mainsail 10 is provided with a series of slats horizontal 21 regularly spaced from each other. This solution has effect for the purpose of stiffening the sail 10 and thus offering the possibility to use a sail 10 having a larger surface.

    Conformément à l'invention, la grand-voile 10 comprend une deuxième ralingue 22 continue qui s'étend parallèlement à la ralingue de guindant 12 à une distance prédéterminée de celle-ci. According to the invention, the mainsail 10 comprises a second continuous luff 22 which extends parallel to the luff luff 12 to a predetermined distance therefrom.

    Cette deuxième ralingue 22 est destinée à coopérer avec un dispositif de guidage 23, visible sur la figure 2, disposé au voisinage de l'entrée de la gorge 14. Ce dispositif comprend deux éléments de guidage 24, 25 oblongs situés en regard de l'orifice de la gorge 14 sensiblement de part et d'autre de celle-ci. Ces deux éléments 24 et 25 sont réglables en distance l'un par rapport à l'autre. Ils sont écartés l'un de l'autre d'une distance légèrement supérieure à l'épaisseur de la voile 10 de manière à délimiter un passage par lequel passe la portion de voile 10 comprise entre les deux ralingues 12 et 22.This second rope 22 is intended to cooperate with a device for guide 23, visible in FIG. 2, arranged in the vicinity of the entrance to the groove 14. This device comprises two guide elements 24, 25 oblong located in look of the orifice of the groove 14 substantially on either side of the latter. These two elements 24 and 25 are adjustable in distance from one another. They are spaced from each other by a distance slightly greater than the thickness of the sail 10 so as to delimit a passage through which the portion of sail 10 between the two line 12 and 22.

    Les deux éléments de guidage 24 et 25 sont portés par deux joues respectives 26, 27 fixées sur l'élément profilé 15. Ils peuvent être fixés et présenter une forme oblongue appropriée pour assurer un guidage sans détérioration de la seconde ralingue 22. En variante, ces éléments 24 et 25 pourront consister en des galets montés rotatifs sur les joues 26 et 27, autour d'un axe commun perpendiculaire au plan de la voile 10 de manière à guider la ralingue 12 dans l'axe de l'entrée de la gorge 14.The two guide elements 24 and 25 are carried by two respective cheeks 26, 27 fixed to the profiled element 15. They can be fixed and have a oblong shape suitable for guiding without damaging the second headline 22. As a variant, these elements 24 and 25 could consist of rollers rotatably mounted on the cheeks 26 and 27, around a common axis perpendicular to the plane of the sail 10 so as to guide the line 12 in the axis of the entrance to the groove 14.

    L'avantage de cette solution consiste en ce qu'elle permet d'obtenir à la fois un excellent guidage de la ralingue sans que les extrémités des lattes 21 ne puisse perturber le passage, d'une part, de la ralingue 12 dans l'orifice de la gorge 14 et, d'autre part, de la voile 10 dans l'intervalle des éléments de guidage 24 et 25.The advantage of this solution is that it allows both excellent guidance of the rope without the ends of the slats 21 being able to disturb the passage, on the one hand, of the line 12 in the orifice of the groove 14 and, on the other hand, of the sail 10 in the interval of the guide elements 24 and 25.

    Bien entendu, l'invention ne se limite pas au mode d'exécution précédemment décrit.Of course, the invention is not limited to the embodiment previously described.

    Ainsi, la gorge 14 dans laquelle coulisse la ralingue 12 pourrait être directement réalisée dans le mât 11, comme dans l'exemple représenté figure 3. Thus, the groove 14 in which the headline 12 slides could be directly produced in the mast 11, as in the example shown in FIG. 3.

    Dans ce cas, les deux éléments de guidage 24 et 25 pourront être portés par deux joues respectives 28 et 29 fixées sur la mât 11 par des rivets 30, 31.In this case, the two guide elements 24 and 25 can be carried by two respective cheeks 28 and 29 fixed to the mast 11 by rivets 30, 31.

    Par ailleurs, au lieu d'utiliser une deuxième ralingue 22, il est possible de n'utiliser que des segments de ralingue 31 respectivement situés au droit des lattes 21. La voile 10 comprend alors au moins autant de segments, ou protubérances, de ralingue 31 que de lattes 21, lesdites protubérances 22 étant situées à proximité des extrémités des lattes 21.Furthermore, instead of using a second headline 22, it is possible to use only rope sections 31 respectively located to the right of the battens 21. The sail 10 then comprises at least as many segments, or protuberances, of headline 31 than of slats 21, said protuberances 22 being located near the ends of the slats 21.

    Ces segments de ralingue 31 pourront être rectilignes. Néanmoins, ils pourront avantageusement présenter des formes incurvées par exemple en V, de concavité orientée à l'opposé de la première ralingue 12 de manière à constituer deux rampes de guidage successives 32, 33 qui s'étendent obliquement par rapport à la verticale (figure 4).These headline segments 31 may be rectilinear. However, they can advantageously present curved shapes for example in V, of concavity oriented opposite the first headline 12 so as to constitute two successive guide ramps 32, 33 which extend obliquely to the vertical (Figure 4).

    Ces rampes 32, 33 sont destinées à venir en appui sur les éléments de guidage 24, 25 en éloignant les extrémités des lattes 11 de l'entrée de la gorge 14.These ramps 32, 33 are intended to come to bear on the guide elements 24, 25 by moving the ends of the slats 11 away from the entrance to the groove 14.

    Comme précédemment mentionné, cette solution présente l'avantage de réduire les surépaisseurs lors de l'enroulement de la grand-voile 10 autour du tube enrouleur 2.As previously mentioned, this solution has the advantage of reduce the extra thicknesses when the mainsail 10 is wrapped around the hose reel 2.

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    Dispositif pour le guidage d'une voile (10) de bateau à voiles, au niveau de l'orifice de la gorge (14) d'un mât ou d'une pièce solidaire d'un mât, dans laquelle s'engage une ralingue de guindant de la voile, ce dispositif faisant intervenir deux éléments de guidage (24), (25) situés au voisinage dudit l'orifice, sensiblement de part et d'autre de celui-ci, ces deux éléments (24), (25) étant écartés l'un de l'autre d'une distance légèrement supérieure à l'épaisseur de la voile (10) de manière à délimiter un passage, par lequel la voile (10) peut passer,
    caractérisé en ce que les éléments de guidage (24) et (25) présentent, du côté opposé à la gorge (14), des bords extérieurs de guidage, et en ce que ladite voile (10) comprend au moins une protubérance (22) située à une distance de la ralingue de guindant (12) sensiblement égale à la distance séparant lesdits bords extérieurs de l'entrée de la gorge (14), de manière à ce que cette protubérance (22) vienne en appui et soit guidée par lesdits bords extérieurs, en évitant que la voile (10) ne puisse venir se coincer entre les éléments de guidage (24), (25) et ne puisse pas perturber le passage de la ralingue de guindant (12) dans la gorge (14).    Device for guiding a sail (10) of a sailing boat, at the level of the orifice in the groove (14) of a mast or of a part integral with a mast, in which a headline engages luff of the sail, this device involving two guide elements (24), (25) located in the vicinity of said orifice, substantially on either side thereof, these two elements (24), (25 ) being spaced from each other by a distance slightly greater than the thickness of the sail (10) so as to delimit a passage, through which the sail (10) can pass,
    characterized in that the guide elements (24) and (25) have, on the side opposite the groove (14), external guide edges, and in that said web (10) comprises at least one protuberance (22) located at a distance from the luff line (12) substantially equal to the distance separating said outer edges from the inlet of the groove (14), so that this protuberance (22) comes to bear and is guided by said outer edges, avoiding that the sail (10) cannot be wedged between the guide elements (24), (25) and cannot disturb the passage of the luff line (12) in the groove (14).         Dispositif selon la revendication 1,
    caractérisé en ce que la voile (10) est munie de lattes (21).    Device according to claim 1,
    characterized in that the sail (10) is provided with slats (21).         Dispositif selon les revendications 1 et 2,
    caractérisé en ce que les protubérances (22) sont incurvée et présente une concavité orientée à l'opposé de la ralingue de guindant (12).    Device according to claims 1 and 2,
    characterized in that the protrusions (22) are curved and have a concavity oriented opposite the luff line (12).         Dispositif selon la revendication 3,
    caractérisé en ce que les protubérances ont une forme de V.     Device according to claim 3,
    characterized in that the protrusions have a V shape.         Dispositif selon l'une des revendications précédentes,
    caractérisé en ce que la voile (10) comprend au moins autant de protubérances (22) que de lattes (21), lesdites protubérances (22) étant situées à proximité des extrémités des lattes (21).    Device according to one of the preceding claims,
    characterized in that the sail (10) comprises at least as many protrusions (22) as there are slats (21), said protrusions (22) being located near the ends of the slats (21).         Dispositif selon la revendication 1,
    caractérisé en ce que les protubérances (22) sont des segments de droites.    Device according to claim 1,
    characterized in that the protrusions (22) are straight line segments.         Dispositif selon la revendication 1,
    caractérisé en ce que les protubérances (22) forment une deuxième ralingue continue s'étendant parallèlement à la ralingue de guindant (12), sur toute sa longueur.    Device according to claim 1,
    characterized in that the protrusions (22) form a second continuous luff extending parallel to the luff luff (12), over its entire length.         Dispositif selon la revendication 1,
    caractérisé en ce que le mât (11) comprend la gorge (14), délimitée par les bords extérieurs de guidage, dans laquelle vient s'engager la ralingue de guindant (12).    Device according to claim 1,
    characterized in that the mast (11) comprises the groove (14), delimited by the outer guide edges, in which engages the luff line (12).         Dispositif selon la revendication 1,
    caractérisé en ce que la susdite gorge (14) est comprise dans un élément profilé (15) articulé sur le mât (11).    Device according to claim 1,
    characterized in that the above groove (14) is included in a profiled element (15) articulated on the mast (11).         Dispositif selon la revendication 1,
    caractérisé en ce que les éléments de guidage (24), (25) comprennent deux galets rotatifs autour d'un axe commun perpendiculaire au plan de la voile (10) de manière à guider la ralingue de guindant (12) dans l'axe de l'entrée de la gorge (14).    Device according to claim 1,
    characterized in that the guide elements (24), (25) comprise two rotary rollers around a common axis perpendicular to the plane of the sail (10) so as to guide the luff line (12) in the axis of the entrance to the groove (14).         Dispositif selon la revendication 9,
    caractérisé en ce que l'espace entre les deux éléments de guidage (24), (25) sont réglables, de manière à s'adapter à l'épaisseur de la voile (10).    Device according to claim 9,
    characterized in that the space between the two guide elements (24), (25) are adjustable, so as to adapt to the thickness of the sail (10).
    EP01403060A 2000-12-07 2001-11-29 Guiding device for sails Expired - Lifetime EP1213220B1 (en)

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