Parachute having improved vent line stacking

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1993-03-29

1994-11-01

Huppert, Michael S.

Aeronautics and astronautics

Safety lowering devices

Parachutes

244142, B64D 1702

Patent

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053601874

ABSTRACT:
A parachute having an improved vent line stacking wherein the parachute is provided with a canopy having a central vent opening and a vent band secured to the canopy around the periphery of the vent opening, with a plurality of vent lines each lying on a diameter of the vent opening and having its ends secured to the vent band on opposite sides of the vent opening. The vent lines are sewed to the vent band in an order such that a the end of a first vent line is sewed to the vent band at a starting point with the end of a second vent band then being sewed to the vent band adjacent to and counterclockwise from the first band. A third vent band is sewed to the vent band adjacent to and clockwise from the first band, with a fourth vent band being sewed to the vent band adjacent to and counterclockwise from the second vent band. It can be seen that, if the vent lines are numbered in the order of being sewed to the vent band, the odd numbered vent lines will run consecutively in a clockwise direction and the even numbered lines will run consecutively in a counterclockwise direction from the starting point. With this order of assembly, each and every vent line will be separated from adjacent vent lines by no more than one vent line in the center of the vent opening where the vent lines cross.

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NASA Tech Briefs, Apr. 1992, pp. 75-76, Inventor: John E. Hengel Improved Stacking of Vent Lines of a Parachute.

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