Ships – Boats – boat component – or attachment – Hull construction
Patent
1991-03-11
1993-02-23
Sotelo, Jesus D.
Ships
Boats, boat component, or attachment
Hull construction
114343, 114352, 114357, 114123, B63B 810, B63B 300, B63B 704, B63B 524
Patent
active
051880563
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
The invention relates to the technical sector of boat building.
Pleasure boats are built with a hull (1) made of all suitable materials, such as wood, plastic or others, the periphery of which is fitted out so as to take, by assembly, the deck (2), produced independently. The hull and deck are assembled along a parting line (3), as illustrated in FIG. 1, by bonding or any other known process. The parting line can be flat (4) (FIG. 2), curved towards the top (FIG. 3), according the reference (5), curved towards the bottom (FIG. 4) according to reference (6) or have an offset (7) (FIG. 5).
this assembly technique calls for the portholes (8) and other similar openings, either side of the parting line. Considering the profile of the deck part and surface of the hull above the load waterline, the surface and position of the portholes or other openings or transparent panels, are considerably limited and therefore, the attractiveness inside the boat.
The invention is aimed at overcoming these disadvantages.
The problem the invention offers to solve, is to create a new boat building design by giving them a new kind of attractiveness, greater visibility and improved attractiveness inside the boat.
Another problem the invention offers to solve, is to provide greater freedom of design and execution of portholes or other means of lighting.
Such problems are overcome in that the boat, which, in a known manner, comprises a hull and deck, separated by a parting plane, has, along the periphery of the parting line on the hull and/or deck, one or several profiled notches likely to define, in combination, by the bringing together and assembly of the hull and deck, an opening to take components forming a frame and fitted out to make up portholes.
Taking these characteristics into account, it therefore seems possible to separate the production of the simple shapes, such as those of the hull and deck, from more complex ones, such as the portholes. Therefore, the productivity conditions are increased.
According to a first embodiment, the problems brought up are solved in that the notches are made to oppose one another on the hull and deck by defining a double offset and are fitted out to take the component(s) forming a porthole support frame or transparent panels.
In another form of embodiment, the notches are made on the deck, the component(s) forming the frame being flush with the parting line of the hull.
Again, according to another embodiment, the notches are made on the hull, the components forming a frame being flush with the parting line of the deck.
In order to solve the problem brought up to provide the fixing of the components forming the frame of the portholes, the latter are assembled in the corresponding notches of the hull and/or deck, by bonding.
In an advantageous manner, in order to solve the problem brought up of rationalising the production, the components forming the frame, are integrated in the form of inserts during the production of the deck or hull, according to the profile of the latter in order to make up, with one or the other, one single part before the final assembly of the hull and the deck.
Another problem the invention offers to solve is to provide the opening of the porthole(s). Such a problem is solved in that the frame part is fitted with a porthole part, articulated at the base, by a hinge, providing opening from the top and ventilation.
In order to clarify the object of the invention, it is illustrated in a non-limitative manner by the drawings, where:
FIG. 1 is a perspective view before the deck is assembled on the hull of a boat according to the prior art,
FIGS. 2, 3, 4 and 5 are schematic side views illustrating different positions of the parting line of a boat according to the prior art,
FIG. 6 is a perspective view before the hull and deck are assembled according to the invention,
FIG. 7 is a side view according to FIG. 6 after assembly,
FIG. 8 is a partial, transversal section at the level of a porthole as designed according to the invention.
According to the invention, the periphery of
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Lee Kenneth
Sotelo Jesus D.
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