Ships – Hull or hull adjunct employing fluid dynamic forces to...
Patent
1976-04-08
1977-01-11
Blix, Trygve M.
Ships
Hull or hull adjunct employing fluid dynamic forces to...
115 1R, 115 19, B63B 118
Patent
active
040021343
ABSTRACT:
An aqua-planing vehicle has freely rotatable buoyant wheels at both sides of the front and rear ends of a rectangular base frame so that the watercraft can float on a lake or ocean surface. The watercraft propelling member such as a screw is driven by a power source such as an engine mounted on the frame so that the aqua-planing vehicle can plane on the water surface at high speed. Wing members are arranged aslant above the frame such that they receive air on their undersides during travel of the watercraft so that the craft is endowed with buoyancy by virtue of air resistance, to thereby reduce water resistance and allow smooth and high-speed planing of the watercraft on the water surface. Provided aslant below the frame are high-glide impellers arranged such that they can be pushed down by an operating pedal. Thus, when the operator steps on the operating pedal during travel of the aqua-planing vehicle, the impellers are pushed down to strike the water surface, forcing the planing watercraft to bounce up above the water surface. Buffer members are provided on both sides of a lower portion of the frame so as to lessen the impact when the craft which has bounced up lands down again on the water surface.
REFERENCES:
patent: 1964452 (1934-06-01), Cisneros
patent: 2341109 (1944-02-01), McLarty
patent: 3237582 (1966-03-01), Sturgeon et al.
Basinger Sherman D.
Blix Trygve M.
Oujevolk George B.
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