SAILS SYSTEM AND METHODS OF ITS INSTALLATION Russian patent published in 2016 - IPC B63H9/04 

FIELD: ship building.

SUBSTANCE: invention relates to ship building, particularly, to water-crafts, which are equipped with sails. Sail system comprises lifting sails. Sails are installed onboard of the ship along periphery at the right and left broadsides of ship hull to lift sails into working position. Sails are fixed with their tops on expansible ropes of the right and left broadsides, and with their lower parts of sails are fixed on rotary spars. One side of the rotary spars are hinged on the side walls of the right or left broadsides of the ship hull, and the second side are fixed on expansible ropes to set spars with sails into working position. Sails is lifted with expansible ropes on which they are fixed by their tops in order to set the sails system into working position, and the opposite ends of these ropes on both sides are pulled with winches, ends of the expansible ropes pass through the guide elements. Guide elements are installed on stands, which are arranged in the forebody of the ship hull and in the area of its wheelhouse, and to turn the spars on which the sails are fastened by its bottom part, they are moved by the means of the expansible ropes connected to the spars with a drive of both ends from expansible winches.

EFFECT: achieving simple and reliable operation.

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