Title:
PROPELLER, PITCH OF WHICH CAN BE CONTROLLED, AND DRIVE FOR SHIP
Document Type and Number:
Japanese Patent JPS63101191
Kind Code:
A
Abstract:
A controllable pitch propeller assembly has an inner housing attached to a main drive shaft, the housing having rails on the outer surface thereof. Modules carrying the propeller blades are positively mounted on the rails, each module having a housing receiving a hub cylinder and bushings axially aligned at opposite sides thereof. Each pair of bushings receives an adjusting piston having an adjusting pin which engages a groove forming a control path in a propeller hub. Each blade is adjusted by a control lever which adjusts each adjusting piston through a mechanical linkage including an adjusting sleeve and a thrust bearing and flange. The hub is provided with open spaces formed between the inner and outer housings to create hub through exhaust ducts.
Inventors:
PEETAA MIYUURAA
Application Number:
JP24818787A
Publication Date:
May 06, 1988
Filing Date:
October 02, 1987
Export Citation:
Assignee:
MUELLER PETER
International Classes:
B63H3/04; (IPC1-7): B63H3/04
Domestic Patent References:
| JP57144795B | ||||
| JPS3837Y1 |
Attorney, Agent or Firm:
Mitsuteru Soga (3 outside)