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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 28, 1999
Filed:
Sep. 30, 1997
Gerard D Byrne, Sr, Morgan City, LA (US);
David Tompkins, Morgan City, LA (US);
Safety Quik, L.L.C., Morgan City, LA (US);
Abstract
The mooring line quick release device for quickly releasing a mooring line comprising a chamber, a mooring line support shaft and a mechanical system. The chamber, which is compact and sealed, has a first compartment and a second compartment separated by an open channel bounded by a wall of the first compartment, having formed therein a first aperture, and a wall of the second compartment, having formed therein a second aperture. The mooring line support shaft supports a mooring line wherein the mooring line support shaft has a longitudinal surface which passes through the first aperture to the second apertures via the open channel when the mooring line support shaft is changed between a first state to a second state thereof. The remotely control mechanical system serves to change the mooring-line support shaft from the second state to the first state via a third state for quickly releasing mooring line. When the mooring line support shaft is in the third state, mooring line support shaft is being retracted out of the second compartment and into the first compartment via the open channel for the quick release of the mooring line.