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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 14, 1986
Filed:
May. 28, 1985
Thomas P Rademacher, Medina, OH (US);
McNeil Corporation, Akron, OH (US);
Abstract
A device (15, 18) for use in a body of water (10) as one of a plurality of such devices assembled in axial alignment with one another along a restraining element (16) to suppress incident wave turbulence, the devices having a hub (19, 119) adapted to receive the restraining element, a plurality of planar vanes (23, 123) for directing incident water extending generally radially and axially of the hub, an annular baffle (21, 121) disposed proximate the radial extremity of the vanes, a web (20, 120) for suppressing turbulence extending radially of the hub and oriented substantially perpendicular to the vanes, and elements (30, 130) on the hub precluding relative rotation between adjacent of such devices assembled along the restraining element.