Bellmouth exit angle adapter

Details Bellmouth exit angle adapter Bellmouth exit angle adapter

1998-07-06

1999-12-07

Avila, Stephen

Ships

Towing or pushing

Towing by means of cable

B63B 2104

Patent

active

059965258

ABSTRACT:
The present invention comprises a bellmouth adapter assembly for deploying nd retrieving a towed array from a vessel that includes a bellmouth having a rearwardly extending tubular member with an axial centerline, and a distal first flange member extending outwardly from the tubular member, the first flange member having a first inner curved surface. The adapter has a second flange member which is concentrically superimposed over and fixed to the first flange member and has a second inner curved surface. This second curved surface is selected so that its bend radius is larger than the bend radius of the first inner curved surface.

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patent: 4317185 (1982-02-01), Thigpen et al.
patent: 4412672 (1983-11-01), Zelins
patent: 4748927 (1988-06-01), Bujacich
patent: 5517938 (1996-05-01), Wood
patent: 5715871 (1998-02-01), Covelli et al.

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