Sailboat steering aid

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专利汇可以提供Sailboat steering aid专利检索,专利查询,专利分析的服务。并且A wind vane or rotatable sail rig is adjustably set to define a desired course with respect to the yacht''s relative wind, and the vertical shaft from said wind device is connected to an integrator. Said integrator is made fast to the hull proper. And, to take advantage of shifting winds in the optimum manner, the hull should continually deviate from its mean course, either by the helmsman''s action or through the use of an automatic controller on the rudder. Hence the input to the integrator is the deviation of the relative wind minus the deviation of the hull. This angular difference is integrated, and the resulting integral is displayed to the helmsman who steers by referring to its magnitude. Or the output integral motion, suitably geared down, may operate the helm directly.,下面是Sailboat steering aid专利的具体信息内容。

1. As an aid for steering a sailing vessel operating in wind deviating in both directions from its mean angle relative to the vessel''s course and requiring for maximum headway that the vessel''s course be continuously corrected the apparatus comprising a vertical shaft pivotally attached to said sailing vessel; a wind vane adjustably attached to the upper extremity of said vertical shaft such that said shaft is free to rotate along with said wind vane in response to wind direction changes; an electrically conductive follower, one end of which is fixed to the lower extremity of said vertical shaft and the other end being free to rotate congruently in angle with said wind vane and vertical shaft; a pair of electrical resistors mounted end-to-end in the path of the free end of said follower and making electrical contact with the free end, said pair of elecrical resistors being separated by a small electrically insulating gap on their proximate ends, having each of their distant ends adjustably set to a required total electrical resistance, and having each of their adjusted distant ends connected to one of a pair of conventional batteries interconnected in series; an integrating device mounted on the hull of said sailing vessel and operatively connected with the wind vane such that the directional deviation of said wind vane minus the directional deviation of said vessel''s course is the time-integrated variable; said integrating device comprising a reversible D. C. motor having one terminal connected to the common junction of said pair of interconnected batteries and the other terminal connected to said electrically conductive follower, such that the follower in contact with one of said pair of electrical resistors forms one closed circuit driving said motor in one direction while in contact with the other of said pair of electrical resistors driving the same said motor in the opposite direction, and such that the rotational velocity of said integrating motor is proportional to said time-integrated variable; angular indicator means mounted on a horizontal shaft passing through the axis of the sailing vessel''s steering wheel and coupled to the output shaft of said integrating motor by gear means such that helmsman easily and continuously matches the angular orientation of said indicator with the angular orientation of said steering wheel.
2. As an aid for steering a sailing vessel operating in wind deviating in both directions from its mean angle relative to the vessel''s course and requiring for maximum headway that the vessel''s course be continuously corrected the apparatus comprising a vertical shaft pivotally attached to said sailing vessel; a wind vane adjustably attached to the upper extremity of said vertical shaft such that said shaft is free to rotate along with said wind vane in response to wind direction changes; an electrically conductive follower, one end of which is fixed to the lower extremity of said vertical shaft and the other end being free to rotate congruently in angle with said wind vane and vertical shaft; a pair of electrical resistors mounted end-to-end in the path of the free end of said follower and making electrical contact with the free end, said pair of electrical resistors being separated by a small electrically insulating gap on their proximate ends, having each of their distant ends adjustably set to a required total electrical resistance, and having each of their adjusted distant ends connected to one of a pair of conventional batteries interconnected in series; an integrating device mounted on the hull of said sailing vessel and operatively connected with the wind vane such that the directional deviation of said wind vane minus the directional deviation of said vessel''s course is the time-integrated variable; said integrating device comprising a reversible D. C. motor having one terminal connected to the common junction of said pair of interconnected batteries and the other terminal connected to said Electrically conductive follower, such that the follower in contact with one of said pair of electrical resistors forms one closed circuit driving said motor in one direction while in contact with the other of said pair of electrical resistors driving the same said motor in the opposite direction, and such that the rotational velocity of said integrating motor is proportional to said time-integrated variable: reduction-gear means for coupling the output shaft of said integrating motor with the helm such that the rudder angular deviation is proportional to the integral delivered by the output shaft of said motor, thus creating an automatic rudder controller that rquires only occasional attention by the helmsman.
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