Motor vehicles – Surface effect vehicles – Flexible skirt
Patent
1977-03-03
1978-10-31
Peters, Jr., Joseph F.
Motor vehicles
Surface effect vehicles
Flexible skirt
180116, B60V 116
Patent
active
041229096
ABSTRACT:
An air retaining skirt for use with an air cushion vehicle of a type which utilizes a peripheral series of loop and segment sections in combination to provide retention of the air cushion over uneven terrain or water. The loops are adapted to extend from the air cushion vehicle outward and downward in flexible, air inflatable composure, and each loop supports a plurality of ground-contacting segments affixed to the lower edge thereof and extending back up for retention at or near the lower edge of the air cushion vehicle.
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patent: 3397753 (1968-08-01), Hunt
patent: 3409103 (1968-11-01), Tripp
patent: 3576231 (1971-04-01), Jung
patent: 3693729 (1972-09-01), Blurton
patent: 3966012 (1976-06-01), Crewe
Brown Graydon L.
Fair Delbert W.
Continental Oil Company
Miller William J.
Peters Jr. Joseph F.
Siemens Terrance L.
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