The invention relates to a fairlead designed to be fitted to a towing device that can be installed on the deck of a ship and comprising a winch, a cable that moves in the fairlead (20) under the action of the winch, the fairlead (20) comprising: ∙ an open-cross-section channel (24) extending along a main direction (27) such that it is possible to guide the cable, ∙ a movable bolt (30) enclosing a section of the channel (24), ∙ a force sensor (32) located before the bolt (30) in a sense (34) on the main direction (27) and designed to detect an external force, and ∙ a trigger (36) designed to open the bolt (30) when a force that is exerted on the sensor (32) and oriented along the main axis (27) in the sense (34) exceeds a predetermined force, and to close the bolt (30) when this force disappears.
Automatic-opening fairlead and towing device comprising the fairlead
2023-01-19
Patent
Electronic Resource
English
IPC: | B63B Schiffe oder sonstige Wasserfahrzeuge , SHIPS OR OTHER WATERBORNE VESSELS |
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