Accession Number:

ADD014393

Title:

Paravane with Automatic Depth Control.

Descriptive Note:

Patent, Filed 28 Feb 80, patented 7 Aug 84,

Corporate Author:

DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY WASHINGTON DC

Personal Author(s):

• Pickett, David M.
• Knutson, Richard K.
• VonFeldt, William

Report Date:

1984-08-07

Pagination or Media Count:

9.0

Abstract:

A paravane includes an elongated fuselage a wing section of spaced wing members attached to an intermediate portion of the fuselage stabilizer fins for maintaining the paravane lined-up with the direction of tow a depth control flap positioned adjacent the wing section and having a pivot axis extending closely adjacent to the towing point and depth control means of controlling the position of the control flap. The wing members have a straight leading edge portion, a straight trailing edge portion and a curved intermediate portion wherein the wing members are arranged such that the chord lines extend at oblique angles with the longitudinal axis of the fuselage and such that the resultant hydrodynamic lift force vector acting on the wing section passes through the tow point. Keywords Patents, PAT-CL-114-245. kr

Descriptors:

• *DEPTH CONTROL
• *FLAPS(CONTROL SURFACES)
• *PARAVANES
• *PATENTS
• ANGLES
• AUTOMATIC
• AXES
• CONTROL
• FINS
• FUSELAGES
• HYDRODYNAMICS
• LEADING EDGES
• LENGTH
• LIFT
• PIVOTS
• STABILIZATION SYSTEMS
• TOWING
• TRAILING EDGES
• WINGS

Subject Categories:

• Marine Engineering

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE