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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 05, 2003
Filed:
Jun. 21, 2001
Gabor Karafiath, Silver Spring, MD (US);
The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy, Washington, DC (US);
Abstract
A marine vessel which uniquely combines tumblehome-like and trimaran-like attributes in an integrative form describing two underside channels comprises a medial major hull and a pair of lateral minor hulls. The port and starboard minor hulls, each generally describing an inverted triangular cross-section, have respective outside surfaces which slope in tumblehome fashion (downwardly outwardly). The major hull has port and starboard outside surfaces which can slope in any fashion, whether tumblehome or nontumblehome. The outside surfaces of the minor hulls are parallel to the vessel's centerline, whereas the outside surfaces of the major hull aftwardly slant toward the centerline. The minor hulls' respective outside surfaces and the major hull's outside surfaces generally converge at longitudinally equivalent port and starboard locations, at which locations the major hull's outside surfaces commence to forwardly slant toward the centerline so as to generally converge at the vessel's bow tip.