RESILIENT GUIDE RAIL WITH HIGHER FOLLOWER PROPERTIES FOR AIR-CUSHION VESSELS Russian patent published in 2014 - IPC B60V1/16 

FIELD: transport.

SUBSTANCE: invention relates to ship building. Resilient guide rail of air-cushion vessel comprises one-layer structure, detachable suspended elements attached to flexible receiver, inner segmenting guard composed of lengthwise inflatable keel and crosswise shells of two receiver sections with said detachable suspended elements attached thereto. Guide rail receiver angular section features Gauss curvature sign change. Set of, for example, four detachable conical elements with outer shell making the cone bottom parts and protecting said detachable elements is secured to every receiver angular section at acute angle of inclination to shield line from air-cushion vessel of all generators of the cone with bottom directed towards said shield. Truncated cone outer generator inclination angle to shield plane makes 100 degrees while that of inner generator makes 40 degrees, an optimum magnitude for guide rail angular part.

EFFECT: higher reliability, reparability and pliancy, simplified design, no water rake.

8 cl, 8 dwg