US1116141A - Buoy. - Google Patents

Description

E. W. SKOLDBERG. BUOY.

APILIOATION FILED JUNE 16, 1914.

1,1 16,141 Patented Nov. 3, 1914.

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BUOY.

miami.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 3, 1914:.

Application filed June 16, 1914. Serial No. 845,395.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, ERNEST W. SKOLD- nnne, a citizen oi the United States, and a resident of the city of New York, borough of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Buoy, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to buoys and has reference more particularly to mooring buoys for locating the anchoring position of vessels.

The buoys in use at present for mooring purposes are generally made as cans or casks and are liable to be punctured or crushed by blows received from moving vessels, floating ice, wreckage and the like. If made of wood or cork they become saturated and lose their floating qualities. A further objection to buoys of this class is their liability to chafe the sides of vessels or otherwise injure them when striking the vessels. The buoys used for mooring purposes are generally provided with an axial bolt forming the connecting link between the anchor and the hawser of the vessel. This bolt forms a rigid, non-elastic connection which is very detrimental to the mooring chain, due to the jerking produced by the motion of the waves on the buoy.

To obviate the above objections I provide a buoy which is practically `unsinkable and unaffected by the rough usage to which it is subjected, and which is adapted to give within certain limits and relieve the strain on the mooring chain due to jerking caused by wave motions.

With the above and other objects in view, the nature of which willmore fully appear as the description proceeds, the invention consists in the novel construction, combination and arrangement of parts as herein fully described, illustrated and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, forming part of the application, similar' characters of reference indicate corresponding `parts in both views, and Figure l is an elevation of an embodiment of my invention; `and Fig. 2 is a fragmentary cross section on line 2-2, Fig. 1.

Referring to the drawings, 3 represents a flexible, impervious envelop made of rubber cloth or other water-proof material;

and the envelop is filled with light, unsinkable material such as cork or kapok l. The envelop is preferably of an elongated ovoid form but if desired it may be made spherical or of' any shape that necessity may demand. The rubber cloth forming the envelop is protected exteriorly by a strong canvas envelop 5. The protector 5 is provided on the exterior surface with tubular members 6, secured to the canvas bag or envelop in any suitable way, which form longitudinal pockets on said protector. Through each of the pockets passes a flexible member, such as a chain or cable 7,`the ends of which are united at the poles of the buoy by a ring or shackle S. To one of the rings may be attached the anchor chain; to the other, the hawser of the vessel. The stress applied to said rings is distributed through the flexible members 7 which form the cradle for the buoy. It is self-evident that the sudden jerking `on the rings 8 caused by the motion of the waves when the buoy is afloat would tend to compress the body of the buoy, but since the same is formed of material which will give within certain limits, this sudden stress caused by the jerking on the mooring chain is reatly reduced. It may be said that the body carrying the flexible members 7 is elastic within certain limits and will give when stress is applied to the rings 8.

From the foregoing description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, the advantage of the construction and operation of the device shown will be readily understood by those skilled in the art to which the invention pertains; and while I have described the principle of operation, together' with the device which I now con- Sider to be the best embodiment thereof, I desire to have it understood that the device shown is merely illustrative and that such changes may be made when desired as are within the scope of the appended claim.

Havingthus described my invention, Il

claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

In a buoy,-a flexible, impervious envelop made of rubber cloth; a floating substance filling the envelop; a canvas bag fitting snugly over the rubber envelop, said bag and envelop being of elongated ovoid shape;

tubular members on the exterior surface In testimony whereof have signed my of the canvas bag formmg longltudmal name to thls speelfeatlon 1n the presence of pockets thereon; fleXlble members engaglng two subserlblng Wltnesses.

the pockets and extending between the poles ERNEST WIGTOR SKOLDBERG. 5 of the ovod formed by the envelop; and YWitnesses:

means uniting the eXble members at the LOUIS C. TISSOK,

poles. HENRY J. OETTNER.

Copies of 'this patent may be obtained :for five cents each, by adrressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, C.

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