Ships – Towing or pushing – Nested vessels
Patent
1975-12-08
1977-03-22
Blix, Trygve M.
Ships
Towing or pushing
Nested vessels
114 77R, B63B 2100
Patent
active
040130320
ABSTRACT:
A marine transportation combination including a first vessel and a second vessel, the second vessel having a notch or slip for receiving the first vessel, the respective vessels being mated together by three individual couplings, two of which are located on the sides of the first vessel and the wings of the notch, the third being disposed between the bow of the first vessel and the central portion of the notch, the couplings being substantially instantaneously engagable and disengagable thereby providing substantially instantaneous mating and unmating of the vessels, there further being interengagable structural formations to prevent lateral outward spreading of the wings when the vessels are mated.
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Barefoot Galen L.
Blix Trygve M.
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