DEVICE FOR PROTECTION OF BOTTOM AND SIDES OF INFLATABLE BOAT WITH ON-BOARD TUBES Russian patent published in 2020 - IPC B63B7/08 

FIELD: vessels and other watercrafts.

SUBSTANCE: invention relates to shipbuilding and can be used to equip inflatable boat with different types of propulsor. Device for protection of bottom and sides of inflatable boat with on-board tubes relates to shipbuilding and can be used to equip inflatable boat with different types of propulsor, which provides its use with heavy equipment and body kits and during intensive operation under conditions of stones, ice, hummocks. There are external protective sheets made of polyethylene, formed in the form of a bottom, which is continued upwards by bends on part of circumference of on-board tubes of inflatable boats with front bend, without formation of stern part. External protective sheets are attracted to on-board tubes of inflatable boat due to fastening of their ends to the frame. Frame together with bends of outer protective sheets on part of circumference of on-board tubes of inflatable boat forms wraps of completely inflated on-board tubes. There is a part of the frame located inside the inflatable boat and pressed to them. Opposite covers of right and left air tubes of inflatable boats are interconnected by spacers. Spacers are located inside inflatable boat. Said envelopments have sizes at which completely inflated tubes are resiliently clamped therein. Outer protective sheets are integral between ends, by which they are attracted to opposite on-board tubes of inflatable boats.

EFFECT: ensuring protection of the bottom and sides of the inflatable boat with on-board tubes both from external damages, and from deformations of the structure as a whole.

5 cl, 3 dwg