Ships – Displacement-type hull – Multiple hulls
Patent
1994-08-22
1995-12-12
Sotelo, Jesus D.
Ships
Displacement-type hull
Multiple hulls
B63B 100
Patent
active
054740096
ABSTRACT:
A pontoon device with mechanisms for varying the width comprising a floor having parallel side edges and front and rear edges; pontoons positionable with respect to the floor with the axes of the pontoons parallel with the side edges of the floor and located beneath the opposite edges thereof; and adjustment mechanisms to vary the lateral spacing between the pontoons, such adjustment mechanisms including a plurality of rod assemblies secured at their opposite ends to the pontoons beneath the lower surface of the floor, each rod assembly including a pair small linear ribs in axial alignment with their outboard ends secured to a pontoon and with an enlarged tubular member therebetween receiving the inboard ends of the ribs in sliding relationship therewith.
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patent: 3925837 (1975-12-01), Miller
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Ritchie Buddy L.
Ritchie Terri L.
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