US1541186A - Submarine vessel - Google Patents

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June 9, 1925' F. RIES SUBMARINE VESSEL Filed Dec. 26'. 1924 ,5 a Q m 5 M Patented June 9, 1925.

FREDERICK RIES, OF COMPTON, CALIFORNIA.

SU'BMARINE VESSEL.

Application filed December 26, 1924. Serial No. 757,988.

To all M: 71 m it may concern Be it known that I, FREDERICK Rms, a citizen of the United States, residing at Compton, in the county of Los Angeles and State of California, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Submarine Vessels, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a submarine vessel, and has for its principal object, the provision of a relatively simple and efficient neans for causing the vessel to submerge and move downwardly in the water to the desired depth or to move upwardly from a submerged position to the surface of the water.

A further object of my invention is to provide means whereby the equipped vessel may be caused to move in a gradual downward or upward direction at the same time that it is moving forwardly or rearwardly and said means also being effective in causing the vessel to remain practically station ary at any desired depth of submergence.

lVith the foregoing and other objects in view, my invention consists in certain novel features of construction and arrangement of parts that will be hereinafter more fully described and claimed and illustrated in the accompanying drawings in which:

Fig. 1 is a vertical section taken lengtlc wise through the center of a vessel of my improved construction.

Fig. 2 is a detail section showing one of the propellers that are used for causing the equipped vessel to move vertically.

Fig. 3 is a detail section taken on the line 3-3 of Fig. 2.

Referring by numerals to the accompanying drawings, designates the hull of a submarine vessel and mounted on the deck 11 thereof at the extreme forward and rear ends are transversely aligned bearings 12 for trunnions 13. These trunnions project laterally from spherical members 14 that are mounted for rocking movement in sockets 15 and which latter are formed between bearings 12.

Journalled in each spherical member 14 is a shaft 16, carrying on its upper end a propeller 17, preferably of the type having two or more curved or inclined blades. These propeller shafts may be driven in any suitable manner, but I prefer to mount directly on the lower end of each shaft, a

reversible motor 18,'preferably electric, anl the weight of which will, to a considerable extent counterbalance the weight of the propeller.

Suitable means must be arranged within the vessel for swinging each propeller-carrying shaft upon its axis, (the trunnions 13) and I have shown a simple and convenient arrangement that includes a fluid pressure-receiving cylinder 19 in which operates a piston and the outer end of the rod of said piston is connected by a suitable link 20 to the motor 18.

Thus, fluid pressure may be utilized for shifting the propeller-carrying shaft 16 from a vertical to an angular position'or vice versa.

The interiorof the vessel may be fitted up in the usual manner, according to the use to which it is put, and in the event that said vessel is to be used in the salvaging of sunken ships, certain compartments within the vessels hull may be equipped with deep sea diving paraphernalia.

The usual driving propeller 21 at the stern of the vessel is preferably driven from a suitably located engine 22, and the latter may be used for driving an electric generator, the current from which passes into storage batteries 23.

Current from these storage batteries may be used for the operation of the motors 1S.

Suitable water ballast compartments 2% are provided in the lower portion of the vessel.

In the operation of my improved submarine vessel, the motors 18 are operated by current from the storage batteries 23 or from the generator that supplies said batteries and, as the propeller-carrying shafts are rotated, the impingement of the propeller blades on the water will move the vessel upwardly or downwardly through the water, the direction of movement, of course, depending on the direction of rotation of the propellers.

The vertical or angular positions of the propeller-ca-rrying shafts are controlled by the pistons that operate within the fluid pressure cylinders 19.

When the propeller shafts are vertically disposed and operated, the vessel will be moved upward or downward in accordance with the direction of rotation of the propellers and by shifting said shafts into angular 1 with its forward or backward travel.

Thus it will be seen that I have provided simple, efficient and readily operable means for controlling the upward and downward movements of a submarine vessel and which provision is particularly advantageous where the vessel is used in operations incident to the salvaging of sunken vessels or in the building of submarine structures such as foundations for bridge piers, whar-ves and the like.

It will be understood that minor changes in the size, form'and construction of the various parts of my improved submarine vessel may be made and substituted for those herein described without departing from the spirit of the invention, the scope of which is set forth in the appended claims.

I claim as my invention:

1. The combination with asubmarine vessel, of a bearing mounted for rocking movement at the end of the hull of the vessel, an upright shaft ournalled in said bearing, the

upper end of which shaft extends a substantial distance above the top of the hull, a propeller'monnted on the upper end of said shaft and ,a motor mounted on the lower end of said shaft. 7

2. The combination with a submarine vessel, of a bearing mounted for rocking movemerit at the end of the hull of the vessel, an upright shaft journalled in said bearing, the upper end of which shaft extends a substantial distance above the top of the hull. a propeller mounted on the upperend of said shaft, a motor mounted on the lower end of said shaft and ower actuated means connected to the lower end of said shaft for rocking said shaft and its bearing.

'3. The combination with a submarine ves sel, of a shaft journalled in a rocking hearing at the end of the hull of the vessel, a propeller carried by the upper end of said shaft, an electric motor carried by the lower end of said shaft and fluid pressure actuated means within the vessel for swinging said shaft in its rocking bearing.

In testimony whereof I affix my signatui e.

FREDERICK RTE-S.

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