Sail dousing and flaking system

Details Sail dousing and flaking system Sail dousing and flaking system

1990-08-27

1992-06-09

Swinehart, Edwin L.

Ships

Sail or control means therefor

Reefing and furling

114102, B63H 906

Patent

active

051197502

ABSTRACT:
A system for dousing and flaking a sail is disclosed as including a plurality of sail-flaking devices and a douser line. The flaking devices are disposed at points spaced along the luff and the leech of the sail; and the douser line is affixed to one lower corner of the sail, passed through a block mounted to the head of the sail and returned to the other lower corner of the sail, the douser line passing slidably through passageways in the flaking devices disposed along the leech. The flaking devices spaced along the luff are self-actuating when the sail is being lowered; and the flaking devices spaced along the leech are controlled by the douser line. Adjacent flaking devices respectively rotate in one direction and then the other to flake the sail alternately from side to side as it descends and becomes flaccid.

REFERENCES:
patent: 661608 (1900-11-01), Holtzclaw
patent: 4688506 (1987-08-01), Van Breem
patent: 4823720 (1989-04-01), Foster
patent: 4864952 (1989-09-01), Stevenson
patent: 4986205 (1991-01-01), Somers
Photographs pf shackles--taken by John E. Somers.
Dutchman--Patented sail handling system.
Battslide--Sailpower Systems, Inc.
Lazymate--North Sails.
Schaefer--p. 72 of 1988 Schaefer Marine Catalog.

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