Anchoring device for buoyant life saving equipment

Details Anchoring device for buoyant life saving equipment Anchoring device for buoyant life saving equipment

1974-08-12

1977-01-04

Blix, Trygve M.

9 14, B63C 922

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040005330

ABSTRACT:
A life saving device for vessels which provides anchorage for buoyant equipment such as life rafts or life boats, in the form of a buoy releasably carried by a vessel in a manner so as to float free if the vessel sinks, while remaining attached to the vessel by a cable held on a reel on the buoy and having its outer end connected to the vessel. The buoy carries a lifeboat mooring line for life boats or life rafts to secure themselves to the buoy, this lifeboat mooring line being buoyant and being relatively long compared to the largest dimension of the buoy. The lifeboat mooring line is normally stowed on or in the buoy and arranged to be automatically released after the buoy has separated from the vessel, and preferably a delayed action release mechanism is provided which ensures that the lifeboat mooring line is not released until the buoy has cleared the vessel's rigging so that the mooring line cannot become entangled with any part of the vessel. The release mechanism may include a rip cord which releases the lifeboat mooring line from the stowed position when fully extended, the rip cord having a stowed length of say fifty feet. The lifeboat mooring line is preferably held in a recess in the buoy, and protected from the weather by a cover which is automatically opened to release the mooring line at a suitable moment.

REFERENCES:
patent: 665240 (1901-01-01), Liuonius
patent: 3618150 (1971-11-01), Anselmi
patent: 3754291 (1973-08-01), Harris et al.

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