Ship hull cleaning device

Details Ship hull cleaning device Ship hull cleaning device

1982-11-15

1984-07-31

Blix, Trygve M.

Ships

Implements

Hull cleaning

B63B 5910

Patent

active

044623283

ABSTRACT:
A cleaning device for removing foulant from the hull of a sea going vessel comprising a carriage, a plurality of cleaning nozzles secured to the carriage, a reactor nozzle aligned to produce a reactive force which opposed the force component of the cleaning nozzles which tends to urge the carriage away from the hull of a ship, and control members for displacing the carriage across the hull surface of the vessel. The control member can be flexible, in which case the reactor nozzle is also aligned to tension the control members. In any case, the control members provide remote control of the carriage throughout a regular pattern of predetermined paths.

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patent: 2543348 (1951-02-01), Briese
patent: 3609916 (1971-10-01), Hammelmann
patent: 3859948 (1975-01-01), Romano et al.
The Zero Thrust Gun shown in Marine Engineering/Log International, Feb. 1978, p. 59.

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