1991-01-03
1992-07-28
Basinger, Sherman
Ships
Anchor
114301, B63B 2132
Patent
active
051332779
ABSTRACT:
An anchor having critically improved ability to penetrate and bury deep in mooring beds that can function well in a wide variety of mooring bed types is formed with a fluke component for burying into a mooring bed when it is cast on the bed and a shank component by which the anchor is attached to anchor rode. The fluke component is a contoured plate having identical starboard and port halves that increase in width from distal end to proximal end and meet in an apex at the center of the proximal end. The shank component has an elongated shaft bolted to a standard member above the plate with the shaft and the standard lying in a common plane with the longitudinal axis of symmetry of the plate. When the shaft is horizontal the plate is angled downward so its apex digs into the mooring bed when tension is applied to the anchor rode. Such angle may be varied to obtain maximum holding with different types of mooring beds.
REFERENCES:
patent: 3961451 (1976-06-01), McCain
patent: 4397256 (1983-08-01), Bruce
Basinger Sherman
Palmer Carroll F.
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