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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 25, 1990
Filed:
Sep. 08, 1988
Applicant:
Inventors:
Hans Langenberg, Hamburg, DE;
Jurgen Wessel, Hamburg, DE;
Assignee:
Blohm + Voss AG, Hamburg, DE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B63H / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
440 66 ; 440 69 ; 114 57 ;
Abstract
A hull for a water vessel which includes an elongated displacement vessel having bow and stern extremities, a major longitudinal and normally horizontal axis, a transverse and normally perpendicular axis, a length of about L along the longitudinal axis, a propeller mechanism near the stern extremity and a guide vane which is located at a distance of between about 1/4 L and 1/2 L (preferably about 1/3 L) ahead of the propeller mechanism.