US944209A

US944209A - Boat.

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Publication number: US944209A
Application number: US50861209A
Authority: US
Inventors: William J Reed
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1909-07-20
Filing date: 1909-07-20
Publication date: 1909-12-21
Anticipated expiration: 1926-12-21

Description

W. J-; REED. v BOAT.

APPLICATION yuan JULY 20, 1909.

944,209. i Patented Dec. 21, 1909.

Tiers: AVALLAB tiara-no STATES r g rnn'r camera WILLIAM J. REED, OF JANEEIVILLE, WISGONfiIIfi eaaaoa.

that it clears the surface of the vater,-e-ach' tube having its ends provided wlth tapered portions forming compartments separate from the compartment inclosed by the body of the tube and with a keel extending he full length thereof and tapered to a paint bow and stern. I

My invention also consists in arranging the propeller midway between the stern ends of the buoyant tubes and as the water between the tubes is not disturbed by the passage thereof over the water the propeller is rotating in a solid body of water instead of the disturbed mass in boats of ordinary construction where the propeller is under the stern of the boat.

Still another feature of my invention eonsists in placing the rudder near the bow of the boat instead of under the stern so that it does not interfere with the operation of the propeller and has a solid mass of water to operate in.

My invention will be described in detail hereinafter and illustrated in the accompanying drawings in which- Figure 1 is a central longitudinal sectional view of my improved boat, Fig. 2, a rear. view, and Fig. 3, a longitudinal sectional view of one of the tubes.

In the drawings similar rcfcrcnce characters indicatecorresponding parts in all of the \iews.

'lhe buoyancy of my improved boat depends upon the air tight tubes 1 spaced apart: and having their ends provided with points 2 with their top surface on the same Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed July 20, 1909.

BOAT.

Patented. Dec. 2i, raw.

Serial No. 508,612.

level as the tubes While their bottoms and sides aretapered to a point.

3 indicates a keel secured to the underside of each tube 1- and points 2 and having its ends tapered to the ends of said points.

4 indicates angular plates secured to the top of each tube 1. in pairs and spaced apart, and 5 the deck supporting beams secured between said plates.

6 indicates the deck secured to beams 5.

The propeller 7 is secured to the rear end of shaft 8 and driven by motor 9 located on deck 6 forward of midship, the rear end of the shaft being journal-led in a box 10 supported by brackets 11 secured to the underside of the deck.

The rudder 12 is, as shown, located near the head end of the vessel, the rudder post 13 extending through the deck 6 and having its upper and supported by a stand ard 14. I

The body of each tube 1 is constructed in a single air tight compartment 15 and an air-pinup H3 is provided and connected by means of tubes or )ipes 17 with the compartments 15, 18in icating a pressure gage connected with each compartment 15 to indicate the air pressure therein. The points 2 have compartments 19 therein separate from compartments 15 and containing air under ordinary atmospheric pressure.

By locating the rudder near the bow end of the boat an advantage is secured in that the rudder plays in a Solid mass of Water undisturbed by the bulk of the boat and by being to the rear of the forward ends of points 2 it is protected from injury by striking obstructions.

The propeller, being located between tubes '1, has a solid mass of water to operate in as the water between the tubes is not dislnrbcd and furthermore the suction of the propeller is avoided so that instead of the boat going up hill at all times while in motion under the influence of the propeller, the boat proceeds on even keel and its draft being very slight skims over the surface of the water at a high speed comparable to the strength of he motor.

a; eeeeoe Having thus described my invention What catecl midway between the tubes at the stern, 10

I claim isand :1 rudder secured midway-between the A boat com rising two tubes spaced apart tubes near the head end of the boat.

and filledwit compressed air, the ends of In testimony whereof I hereto afiix my 5 the tubes pointed, a keel secured to the uni signature in the presence of two Witnesses.

derside Qf' each tube and tapered to the= WILLIAM'J. REED. pointed ends thereo'fie deck secured to the I lVitnesses: upper sides of the tubes and clearing the EDWIN F. CARPENTER plane of said upper sides, a propeller l0- VVALLACE W. NASH.