Buoys – rafts – and aquatic devices – Buoy – Having means to control attitude or position
Patent
1984-08-27
1986-04-08
Blix, Trygve M.
Buoys, rafts, and aquatic devices
Buoy
Having means to control attitude or position
441 21, 441 23, 441 24, B63B 2152
Patent
active
045809879
ABSTRACT:
An Air Deployed Oceanographic Mooring when assembled for deployment has a ltitude of components suitable for separation by explosive bolts upon deployment of the system. A parachute system is connected to a surface buoy. The components that separate from each other upon deployment comprise a parachute system, a surface float, a subsurface buoy, an anchor shell and a bottom finder. All components except for the parachute system have interconnecting flexible lines upon deployment. A novel locking mechanism for limiting the paying out of the line between the anchor shell and subsurface buoy is triggered by the slackening of the line between the bottom finder and anchor shell when the bottom finder hits the bottom of the ocean.
REFERENCES:
patent: 3965512 (1976-06-01), Bennett
patent: 3998408 (1976-12-01), Caldwell
patent: 4096598 (1978-06-01), Mason
patent: 4246671 (1981-01-01), Swenson
Bartz C. T.
Beers Robert F.
Blix Trygve M.
Lall Prithvi C.
McGill Arthur A.
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