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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 28, 2012
Filed:
Mar. 07, 2009
Applicant:
Friedrich Mewis, Dresden, DE;
Inventor:
Friedrich Mewis, Dresden, DE;
Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B63H 1/18 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A device for reducing the power demand for the propulsion of a ship, and for broad-built or non-broad-built not-very-fast ships of any type which is affixed to the hull at a short distance upstream of the propeller, comprises a fore-nozzle with fins or hydrofoils that are arranged within the fore-nozzle, wherein the fore-nozzle, at the top, can be tilted forwards by up to 8°, on a horizontal transverse axis that extends through the centre of the fore-nozzle.