A vessel anchor assembly 10 comprises an anchor arm 11 pivotable in use about a pivot axis 12 between an operative setting for lowering and raising an anchor and an inoperative setting for stowage of the anchor and an anchor 13 connected with one end of a flexible anchor line 16 which is movably guided in the length direction of the arm along a length section thereof. The line is connectable at its other end to a windlass for unreeling and reeling up the line and for maintaining tension in the line to keep the anchor in abutment with the arm at a free end thereof. Generation of slack in the line during pivotation of the arm from the operative to the inoperative setting is avoided using guide means 19 guiding the line substantially through the zone of the pivot axis thereby maintaining a substantially constant length of the line between the pivot axis and its connection with the anchor in and during pivotation of the arm between the operative and inoperative settings. Line tension keeping the anchor in abutment with the free end of the arm is thus substantially maintained without compensatory movement of the line.
Vessel anchor assembly
2018-01-03
Patent
Electronic Resource
English
IPC: | B63B Schiffe oder sonstige Wasserfahrzeuge , SHIPS OR OTHER WATERBORNE VESSELS |