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Re: [PSUBS-MAILIST] Pressure hull
On Mon, 10 Feb 2003 09:22:40 +1000 "Walter Starck" writes:
>This design is reminiscent of the very successful Costeau "Saucer"
>minisub that made many dives to 1000' or more. It, however was
>designed to operate in a horizontal orientation with the hatch in the
>center of the upper side. As I recall it was made from two end caps.
I can't do any web-browsing, so I can't see the design.
But I do have the "diving saucer" patent issued to Cousteau.
An excerpt of Claim 8 follows:
8. A self-propelled submserible vessel ... wherein the
ratio of the equatorial diameter to the axis of revolution is
approximately the value of [the square root of] 2, said
shroud being an ellipsiod of revolution which is appreciably
flatter than that of said hull.
U.S. Patent number 3,103,195; issued Sept. 10, 1963, to
J. Y. Cousteau et al. There are 11 U.S. patents and five
non-U.S. patents cited as references.
Mike H.
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