Motor vehicles – Surface effect vehicles
Patent
1982-02-17
1983-08-09
Pekar, John A.
Motor vehicles
Surface effect vehicles
114 67A, B60V 118
Patent
active
043973663
ABSTRACT:
Bow and side deck structures forming a part of the rigid body structure of an air cushion vehicle include a tubular circular section gunwale member and a tubular circular section chine member supported outwardly from a buoyancy tank structure which forms the base of the rigid body structure by frame members to which they are attached by welding. The bow and side deck structures are completed by hull plating attached to the gunwale, chine and frame members. The buoyancy tank structure may include unstiffened extruded deep I-section beams.
REFERENCES:
patent: 3598077 (1971-08-01), Veldhuizen
patent: 4069634 (1978-01-01), Bouter et al.
Dadswell John E.
Eldridge Michael W.
British Hovercraft Corp. Ltd.
Fugate D. Lynn
Pekar John A.
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