US3760759A - Stabilising apparatus for ships and the like - Google Patents

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US3760759A
US3760759A US00122772A US3760759DA US3760759A US 3760759 A US3760759 A US 3760759A US 00122772 A US00122772 A US 00122772A US 3760759D A US3760759D A US 3760759DA US 3760759 A US3760759 A US 3760759A
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  • ABSTRACT A ship stabilising apparatus comprising means to stabilise a ship by the tilting of fins extended therefrom, said fins being operable to apply anti-rolling forces, antipitching forces orforces which are an integration of anti-rolling forces and anti-pitching forces, said forces being modulated to suit the ships immediate stabilising requirements and said tilting to be timed to avoid the application of pro-oscillatory forces to the ship and said fins in special circumstances being controllable to apply continuously to the ship about its rolling axis a clockwise or an anti-clockwise torque.
  • the invention relates to means whereby rolling and pitching, being oscillatory motions of a ship, are to be minimised; and also means to apply to the ship torsional couples which will oppose the ships tendency to swing outwards whilst turning.
  • Rolling occurs about a rolling axis which lies in a fore-and-aft direction in a ship and is a motion in which momentum accumulates from consecutive waves, causing the ship to overtravel such effects as can be produced by individual waves, and inertial members as hereinafter described which roll or pitch in concert with the ship will tend to overtravel for the same reason.
  • Pitching is similar to rolling in that great momentum accumulates, but differs in that independently of rolling, it acts about a pitching axis which lies across the ship.
  • Fins if extended from near the bows can be operated to reducce rolling or pitching or both, and might be essential to a very large ship although they are prone to damage; if extended from amidships they can be operated only to reduce rolling, but if extended from near the stern they can be operated to reduce both rolling and pitching, are reasonably safe from damage, and need not add greatly to the turbulence inevitably caused by the rudder and propellers.
  • a ship stabilising apparatus comprising at least one fin, an oscillating sensor, a reactor controlled by said sensor, and a fin operating mechanism operably connected between said reactor and said fin, said sensor including an inertial member mounted so as to oscillate responsively to oscillations of the ship, said inertial member being operable to control a supply of motive liquid to potential 'controllingmeans of said reactor and a supply of motive liquid to motive means of said reactor for movement of an actuating means therein, said potential controlling means being adapted to regulate the amount of movement of said actuating means and said actuating means being adapted to transmit anti-oscillatory efforts to the fin operating mechanism.
  • the apparatus of the invention may also include a further similarly operable sensor and similarly operable reactor, one sensor and reactor being responsive to rolling oscillations and the other sensor and reactor being responsive to pitching oscillations, both reactors being operable to transmit their respective efforts to said fin operating mechanism for integration thereby into one stabilising effort.
  • the fin or fins may be of longer dimension along the ship and where two fins are used, one on either side of the ship, each fin is operatively connected to a fin operating mechanism, each fin operating mechanism being connected to both reactors.
  • FIGS. 1A and 1B are a flow diagram showing the application of stabilising efforts to a ship whilst oscillating at a time before mid-roll and mid-pitch;
  • FIG. 2 is a part-sectional elevation through a roll sensor of the invention, taken along line 22 of FIG. 4;
  • FIG. 3 is a part-sectional elevation through the roll sensor taken along line 3-3 of FIG. 2;
  • FIG. 4 is a fragmentary section through the inertial member of the sensor taken along the line 4-4 of FIG. 2;
  • FIG. 5 is a fragmentary section of a rotary valve taken along the lines 5-5 of FIG. 3;
  • FIG. 6 is a similar section to FIG. 5 taken along the line 6-6 of FIG. 3;
  • FIG. 7 is a fragmentary section in plan taken along the line 7-7 of FIG. 3;
  • FIG. 8 is a part-sectional plan of a reactor of the invention along the line 8-8 of FIG. 9;
  • FIG. 9 is a sectional elevation taken along the line 9-9 of FIG. 8',
  • FIG. 10 is a sectional elevation of a fin and its operating mechanism taken along the line 10-10 of FIG. 13;
  • FIGS. 11A, 11B and 11C illustrate the outlines of ships fitted with stabilising fins
  • FIG. 12 is a sectional elevation taken along the line 12-12 of FIG. 9;
  • FIG. 13 is a part-sectional view taken along the line 13-13 of FIG. 10;
  • FIG. 14 is a sectional view taken along the line 14-14 of FIG. 13;
  • FIG. 15 is a sectional view taken along the line 15-15 of FIG. 13;
  • FIG. 16 is a sectional view of a first modified form of reactor.
  • FIG. 17 is a sectional view of a second modified form of reactor.
  • FIGS. 11A, 11B and 11C show the outlines of ships which are rolling to starboard whilst their stems are rising.
  • Ships 1 and 6 have anti-rolling fins 2, 3, 7 and 8 of conventional outline, and similar antipitching fins 4, 5, 9 and 10; and necessarily the fins 3 and 8 would be positively tilted, whilst the remaining fins would be negatively tilted, and so both ships 1 and 6 would have on their starboard side two oppositely tilted fins thereby causing much turbulence and wastage of power.
  • FIG. 11C shows the location of fins in the preferred arrangement wherein a ship 11 has a port fin 12 with a leading edge 12A, a sea-chest 14, and a starboard fin 13 with a leading edge 13A and a sea-chest 15.
  • the preferred fins 12 and 13 are substantially planar in form and rectangular in outline, or may be curved to conform to the surface of the ship, and their sea-chests 14 and 15 are flush or streamlined with the surface of the ship.
  • the preferred apparatus for controlling both roll and pitch of a ship consists of six pipe connected mechanisms; a roll sensor and a pitch sensor each having and controlling a reactor; a port and a starboard fin each having means to receive and apply anti-rolling or antipitching efforts to tilt the fin suitably, and means to receive both types of effort simultaneously, to integrate them, and so to tilt the fin.
  • the roll sensor (FIGS. 2 and 3) has an inertial member 16 consisting of an air-filled annulus which has an attached weight 16A, and is mounted on two identical arms 17, (FIG. 4), which are mounted on a central member 18 fixedly mounted on a driving shaft 19 which is rotatably mounted in a liquid filled casing 20 in which the inertial member 16 being, with the associated members of suitable mass, has zero buoyancy.
  • the driving shaft 19 is located in parallel relationship with, and preferably close to the ships rolling axis, allowing the inertial member 16 with minimal friction to roll in concert with the rolling of the ship.
  • the member 16 being gimbal mounted as explained, can also oscillate as shown in FIG. 2 about the arms 17 in response to the ships pitching, such action being resisted by two side rods 21 which are pivotally mounted as shown in F IG. 2, and which mount springs 22 which return the member 16 to its normal position after pitching.
  • the spindle has a first annular passage 30A and a second annular passage 308, (FIG.
  • the housing has two passages 34C and 34D in opposite relationship; and also has two passages 34B and 34A which are also in opposite relationship.
  • the passage 30B is located on a plane above the passages 34C and 34D whilst the flyballs 31 are inactive, but when they rotate the passage 30B lowers and allows motive liquid to flow through the passages 34C, 308 and 34D to the roll reactor (FIGS. 3 and 8), the rate of flow being modulated by the passage 30B which, being of varying depth as shown, allows an increasing rate of flow when the angular velocity of rolling increases, thereby passing to the reactor a volume of fluid proportional to the stabilising effort such as is instantaneously required.
  • a brake drum 35 (FIGS. 3 and 7) has a geared section 35A by which drive passes to a step-up gear 36 mounted on a first rotary valve 37, (FIG. 3), which has two identical arcuate passages 37A and 37B, (FIGS. 1B, 5 and 6) and is mounted in a housing 39, said housing having two passages 38A and 3813 connected respectively to pipes 127 and 129, (FIG. 1B).
  • a brake band 39 pivotally mounted at one end on a boss 40, has at its other end an oval hole 39A through which the spindle 30 passes.
  • the roll reactor (FIGS. 8, 9 and 12), has a body 44 which is spaced by rods 45 from a motive cylinder 46 having a piston 47 with an extended piston rod 48 which mounts a cruciform crosshead 49 and is housed in the body 44.
  • Two biasing springs 48A and 48B mounted on the piston rod 48 abut the cross head 49 and respectively the motive cylinder 46 and the body 44, and said springs, acting through the crosshead 49 and the piston rod 48, centralize the piston 47 in the cylinder 46".
  • a first potentialcontrolling cylinder 44A has a piston 50 which is contacted by a buffer spring 51 and is attached to an extended piston rod 52 which has an annular passage 52A thereon and is associated with a housing 46A, a channel 468, a passage 46C, a collar 53, a plurality of slots 46D in the cylinder 46 and a cylinder cover 448.
  • a second potential-controlling cylinder 44C is similar to the said first cylinder 44A having a piston, a piston rod 54 having an annular passage 54A and is associated with a passage 46E, a plurality of slots 46F in the cylinder 46, and a buffer spring 55. Both rods 52 and 54 are linked to an equalising lever 56 by links 57, and movement of the rods 52 and 54 is limited by the collar 53 engaging an abutment 53A and piston 50 engaging against the inner face of the cylinder cover 44B.
  • a control valve 67 Whilst the roll reactor is operating normally a control valve 67, (FIG. 8), remains closed and the modulated liquid supply received from the passage 34D, (FIG. 3), passes through a pipe 66, a control valve 68, (FIG. 8), passages 44D and 44E into the potential-controlling cylinders 44A and 44C, and to one or more regulating valves such as 69 or 71 which are manually set to discharge the liquid at a steady rate whilst maintaining in the said cylinders 44A and 44C pressures which, balanced by the pressures exerted by the buffer springs 51 and 55, maintain suitable adjustment of the locations of the passages 52A and 54A to imprison at each end of each stroke a suitable volume of liquid in the cylinder 46 whereby the length of stroke of the piston 47 is controlled. Valves such as 69 and 71 can be located at any near or remote pipe-connected station and adjustments of their setting provides an overriding adjustment of the said potential-controlling action customarily provided by the passage 30B (
  • an over-riding adjustment of the supply can be effected by supplying additional motive liquid through and by the control valve 67 which can be located at any near or remote pipe-connected station.
  • the valve 68 (FIG. 8) should be closed and the requisite liquid pressure can then be maintained in the cylinders 44A and 44C by motive liquid received through and by manual adjustment of the valve 67.
  • the body 44 also has a first master cylinder 44F, (FIG. 9), with a piston and a piston rod which is attached to the cross-head 49, and also has two passages 44G and 44H through which, by means of two hydraulic circuits, anti-roll efforts are delivered as will be explained. These efforts are proportional to the stroke of the piston 47; to the volume of fluid delivered by the cylinder 44F; and to the ship's anti-roll efforts as then required for the starboard fin 13, (FIG. 1B).
  • a second master cylinder 44. having a piston, apiston rod, and passage 44K and 44L, delivers anti-roll efforts to the port fin 12, (FIG. 1A).
  • the fin operating mechnaism, (FIGS. 10, 13 and of the starboard fin 13 has an anti-rolling slave cylinder 72, (FIG. 15), having a piston 73 connected by a piston rod 74 to a crosshead 75 to which are also attached two rack-geared bars 76 which are slidably housed in the body of the cylinder 72 (FIG. 13).
  • an anti-pitching slave cylinder 77 which is operatively identical with the cylinder 72, having a piston, a piston rod, a crosshead, and two rack-geared bars 78.
  • a movable member 79 is located, having a housing 81 in which a shaft 82 can rotate, (FIGS.
  • the sea-chest 15 has a body 15A, (FIG. 14), is integral with the hull of the ship 11 and has an outer cover 15B which has an opening 15C, (FIG. 13), and a split bearing 15D, (FIGS. 10 and 14), and also has an inner face plate 15E which is strengthened by a number of ribs 15F which are not part of the invention, but are shown dotted in FIG. 14.
  • Each of two links 84, (FIG. 13) connects the movable member 79 to a lever 85 mounted on a shaft 86 which is rotatably mounted in the inner face plate 15B and the outer cover 15B of the sea chest, (FIG. 14).
  • each shaft 86 On each shaft 86 is mounted a geared sector 87 which meshes with a geared sector 88A of a fin carrier 88 which has a slot 88B (FIG. 14) on its sea-ward face to receive the fin 13, and also has a plurality of smooth surfaced housings such as 88C and 88D and one housing 88E to receive a pivotal shaft 13D of the fin 13.
  • the fin (FIG. 14)
  • the tongues 13B and their caps 96 may be omitted.
  • FIGS. 1A and 1B show the application of stabilising forces as applied to the ship 11 whilst it is rolling to starboard and the stern is rising, at a time shortly before mid-roll and mid-pitch.
  • Motive fluid has passed from the pipe 132, through the passages 37A, 38A, a pipe 127, (which with pipes 128 through 133 is shown on FIG.
  • a transverse passage 98A (which with a similar passage 98B is located in a plunger 98 which is housed in an tilt-fixing cylinder 99), and thence through a port 100A into a first reactor controlling cylinder, (which also has a second port 1003), wherein it has moved to the right a hollow piston 101, a piston rod 102, and a piston valve 106 in a second reactor controlling cylinder 107 (FIG. 1A), the hollow piston 101 slidably housing a piston rod 102, which, having a fixed flange 103 thereon is positioned in the hollow piston 101 by two buffer springs 104 and 105; the piston rod 102 being attached to the piston valve 106, (FIG.
  • a piston of conventional construction fixedly mounted on a piston rod may be substituted.
  • the pitch sensor oscillates about the pitching axis which lies across the ship and with the pitch reactor is not shown.
  • the motion of pitching being relatively small in an angular sense a much larger inertial member and a great or greater step-up gear is necessary to rotate flyballs such as 31 and a first rotary valve such as 37 with its associated components as in FIGS. 2 and 3 to control and regulate the effort-potential of the pitch reactor; and it is necessary only to show on FIG. 18 that a motive cylinder 109 of the pitch reactor, activated by a pitch sensor, has caused two master cylinders 11 1A and 111B to deliver anti-pitching efforts to two slave cylinders 77 and 116. Delivery of liquid from the master cylinder 111A has passed through a valve 115 (FIG. 1B), which, in conjunction with valves 112, 113 and 114, is gang-controlled for a purpose which will be explained.
  • the fins being responsive both to a roll reactor and a pitch reactor, can also respond to either reactor separately if and when the other reactor is suitably immobilised, which immobilisation can be effected by a clutching means which holds in their mid-stroke position the piston in the slave cylinders which are controlled by the said immobilised reactor.
  • the throttle valve 110 (FIG. 1A), can be adjusted and closed to apply the required clutching means to the pistons in the said slave cylinders.
  • the first rotary valve 37 commences to rotate anti-clockwise and after mid-roll it will allow motive liquid to pass through the passage 37 B, the pipe 129, the passages 98B and 1008 into the right hand end of the first reactor-controlling cylinder 100 wherein it will move the hollow piston 101 toward the left end of the said cylinder whilst spent liquid will leave the cylinder through the passage 98A, the pipe 127 and the passage 37A.
  • the said movement of the piston 103 will compress the spring 105 against the fixed flange 103 and will cause the piston rod 102 and the piston valve 106 (FIG. 1A) to move slightly to the left thereby checking the delivery of motive liquid to, and the discharge of spent liquid from, the motive cylinder 46 of the roll reactor.
  • the movement of the piston valve 106 will compress air (or other suitable gas) in the left hand end of the cylinder 107 and its associated piping, the air passing through a check valve and a second air controlling valve 123 and being retained by two check valves 118 and 119, by a first air control valve 121, and by the spindle 30 being in a lowered position whilst the flyballs 31 are rotating as on FIG. 4. Whilst the piston valve 106 moves to the left, air passes into the cylinder 107 through a check valve 122.
  • the tilt-fixing cylinder 99 (FIG. 1B) and a second rotary valve 125 which has a hand lever 125A, two arcuate passages on different planes, and in its body six pipe connections as shown in FIG. 1B.
  • the tilt-fixing cylinder 99 has a long key-way 99A, eight pipe connections or passages, and mounts a retractible boss 124.
  • the plunger 98 has the said passages 98A and 98B, two trough-like passages 98C and 98D, a housing 98G for the retractible boss 124, and a fixed key 98H which slides in the key-way 99A.
  • the pitch sensor is similarly equipped, having a first and a second reactorcontrolling cylinder such as 100, and 107, a tilt fixing cylinder such as 99 and associated components; and is activated by motive liquid passing to and from its tilt fixing cylinder through the pipes 131 and 133.
  • a first alternative reactor whose central. plane is shown in sectional plan on FIG. 16 has a strokeadjustment means identical with that shown on FIG. 8, and has slots 138 which are similar to the slots 46D as shown on FIG. 8 but are forked to direct the flow of motive liquid to twin motive cylinders 139 and 141, whereby a cylinder 141 activates a master cylinder 143 as shown, and the cylinder 139 activates a master cylinder 142, (the latter two cylinders not being shown), and thus each master cylinder delivers an antioscillatory efiort as in the preferred embodiment.
  • a second alternative reactor shown in sectional plan on FIG. 17 has a motive cylinder 144 having stroke adjustment means identical with that in the preferred embodiment, but differs therefrom in having two extended piston rods which activate in tandem relationship two master cylinders 145 and 146 thereby delivering antioscillatory efforts as in the preferred embodiment.
  • Pressurised motive liquid is used to control and activate the preferred apparatus because it gives a positive and very rapid response and because it. enables constant automatic stroke adjustment to be applied to a piston which reciprocates in a motive cylinder.
  • a ship stabilizing apparatus comprising a tiltable fin, an oscillatory sensor, a reactor mechanism controlled by said sensor and fin operating mechanism operably connected between said reactor mechanism and said fin; said sensor including an inertial member mounted so as to oscillate responsively to oscillations of the ship, inertial means to which the inertial member is drive connected, first and second valvular means drive connected to the inertial means, potential controlling means of said reactor mechanism to which a modulated supply of motive liquid is provided by operation of said first valvular means, a motive cylinder of said reactor mechanism to which motive liquid is supplied, piston valve means to control the supply of motive liquid to the said motive cylinder, an actuating piston in the said motive cylinder moved by the motive liquid whereby anti-oscillatory efforts are applied to the fin operating mechanism, said potential controlling means being adapted to regulate the amount of movement of the said actuating piston in accordance with the ship's angular displacement and angular velocity of oscillation, said fin operating mechanism including drive means connected between said actuating piston and the
  • braking means are provided on the drive from the inertial member so as to apply a braking effect on said inertial member at all but low angular velocities of oscillation, said braking effect being substantially porportional to said angular velocities and being adjusted to cause the oscillatory periods of the inertial member and of the ship to end coincidentally, whereby the action of the reactor will be regulated for correctly timing the reversal of the tilting of a fin.
  • a ship stabilizing apparatus including two master cylinders for producing antioscillatory efforts a motive cylinder for activating each said master cylinder, a potential-controlling valvular means for regulating said motive cylinder to transmit anti-oscillatory efforts to a respective fin operating mechansim.
  • said potential controlling means comprises at least one cylinder, a spring biased piston housed in said cylinder, a pair of piston valves operably connected to said spring biased piston and associated with said motive cylinder so as to ill regulate the retention of liquid in either end of the cylinder and thereby control the length of stroke of the actuating piston whereby the potential of anti-oscillatory efforts transmitted to the fin operating mechanism is proportional to the immediate anti-oscillatory requirements of the ship.
  • a ship stabilizing apparatus comprising a tiltable fin, an oscillatory sensor, a reactor mechanism controlled by the said sensor, and fin operating mechanism operably connected between said reactor mechanism and said fin;
  • said sensor including an inertial member mounted so as to oscillate responsively to oscillations of the ship, inertial means to which the inertial member is drive connected, valvular means drive connected to the inertial means, a piston activated through the said inertial means, a piston valve on said piston operable to control the supply of motive liquid, a motive cylinder of said reactor mechanism to which the motive liquid is supplied, an actuating piston in the said motive cylinder moved by the motive liquid whereby antioscillatory efforts are applied to the said fin operating mechanism, which includes drive means connected between said actuating piston and the fin and operable on movement of the actuating piston to transmit tilting movement to the fin.
  • a ship stabilizing apparatus including a first reactor controlling cylinder connected to the second valvular means, a piston housed in the first reactor controlling cylinder, a piston rod on which the piston is mounted, a second reactor controlling cylinder, a piston valve means in the said second reactor controlling cylinder and connected to the piston rod which is subject at either end thereof to gas pressure so as to arrest the movement of said piston valve until gas exhaust valve means automatically operable by said inertial member when the angular velocity of the ships oscillation approaches a zero value exhausts gas from one end of said piston valve and allows the piston valve to complete its movement to reverse the supply of motive liquid to the motive cylinder of the reactor and thereby reverse the anti-oscillatory effort applied to the fin operating mechanism at the commencement of an anticipatory period of oscillation.
  • 1 LA ship stabilizing apparatus including a similarly operable second oscillatory sensor and a second similarly operable reactor mechanism, one sensor and reactor mechanism being responsive to rolling oscillations and the other sensor and reactor mechanism being responsive to pitching oscillations, both reactors being operable to transmit their respective efforts to said fin operating mechanism for integration thereby into one stabilizing effort.
  • a ship stabilizing apparatus including a plurality of fins, a fin operating mechanism operatively connected to each of said fins and to both of the said reactor mechanisms.
  • said drive means of the fin operating mechanism comprises a movable member connected to the fin by linkage and consisting of a body having a shaft rotatable therein and lever means attached to said shaft, said lever means being operable by the efforts transmitted by the actuating pistons of the reactors to rotate said shaft and move bodily said movable member and thereby transmit tilting movement to the fin.

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