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A WAVE-POWERED TOWING APPARATUS
A towing apparatus has a spine with multiple generally parallel spine members extending in a longitudinal direction and having a length of at least 100 m, and with a leading end and a trailing end. A series of blades are mounted to the spine by couplers which allow the blade to rotate about an axis substantially transverse to the longitudinal direction, each blade having a first surface facing generally in the trailing end direction and a second surface facing generally in the leading end direction. Restraints prevent rotation of each blade by more than a pre-set amount towards the leading end, so that impingement of a wave on the first surface applies a force to the apparatus in the leading end direction. A pair of the towing apparatus' may be arranged to connect to a floating collector with a beach shape to collect floating debris on the sea surface, ridges helping to retain the debris on the slope until it is washed up into a channel.
A WAVE-POWERED TOWING APPARATUS
A towing apparatus has a spine with multiple generally parallel spine members extending in a longitudinal direction and having a length of at least 100 m, and with a leading end and a trailing end. A series of blades are mounted to the spine by couplers which allow the blade to rotate about an axis substantially transverse to the longitudinal direction, each blade having a first surface facing generally in the trailing end direction and a second surface facing generally in the leading end direction. Restraints prevent rotation of each blade by more than a pre-set amount towards the leading end, so that impingement of a wave on the first surface applies a force to the apparatus in the leading end direction. A pair of the towing apparatus' may be arranged to connect to a floating collector with a beach shape to collect floating debris on the sea surface, ridges helping to retain the debris on the slope until it is washed up into a channel.
A WAVE-POWERED TOWING APPARATUS
WELLENBETRIEBENES SCHLEPPGERÄT
APPAREIL DE REMORQUAGE ENTRAÎNÉ PAR LES VAGUES
FITZSIMONS JOCELYN RAYMOND (author) / DUFFY PATRICK JOSEPH (author) / KERR CYRIL (author)
2022-02-09
Patent
Electronic Resource
English
IPC:
F03B
MACHINES OR ENGINES FOR LIQUIDS
,
Kraft- und Arbeitsmaschinen oder Kraftmaschinen für Flüssigkeiten
/
B63B
Schiffe oder sonstige Wasserfahrzeuge
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SHIPS OR OTHER WATERBORNE VESSELS
/
B63H
Schiffsantrieb oder Steuerung der Schiffe
,
MARINE PROPULSION OR STEERING
/
E02B
HYDRAULIC ENGINEERING
,
Wasserbau
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