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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 19, 2015
Filed:
Jan. 25, 2012
Nicholas Long, Swansea, GB;
Nicholas Long, Swansea, GB;
Other;
Abstract
A plug plugs into a ROV drive bucket limiting rotation of a drive shaft therein to say 15° and reducing the build-up of marine growth in the bucket. As shown it includes a polyethylene body (which may be made in two parts) housing a metal socketmounted for limited angular orientation therein. The socket has a twenty four point aperture or recess () which fits over a squared end of a drive shaftat various angles orientation. The socket has external splines () which fit loosely in wide internal grooves () in the body and self-orientates within the body when the body is plugged into the bucket. The plug has a pair of diametrically opposite dogs () which engage in slots (), included in flanges on conventional buckets.