Marine fender

Details Marine fender Marine fender

1977-09-16

1979-01-30

Barefoot, Galen L.

Ships

Fenders

Roller

B63B 5902

Patent

active

041366328

ABSTRACT:
A fender for marine use is described having an outer flexible shell forming a chamber, compressible buoyant material within the chamber and a mooring fitting connected to the shell to secure the fender. The shell is composed of a single piece of homogeneous elastomeric material, having a thickened annularly shaped lip extending around an orifice providing access to the chamber for filling. The mooring fitting is formed with a cavity and the lip of the shell is captured within this cavity to secure the fitting to the shell, so that the shell permits stretching of the fender when it is pinned between two objects while a tensile force is applied to said mooring fitting. The mooring fitting captures the lip without compressing it, so that the fitting may swivel with respect to the shell while still securing the shell from separating from said fitting. The shell has a region of transition adjacent to the lip wherein the thickness of the elastomeric material gradually diminishes at increasing distances from the lip and is proportioned to minimize the stretch on the ends of the shell adjacent to the fitting.

REFERENCES:
patent: 2179125 (1939-11-01), Kirlin
patent: 2737142 (1956-03-01), Andri
patent: 3063400 (1962-11-01), Yamaguchi et al.
patent: 3528383 (1970-09-01), Fetters

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