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US 2004/0129193 A1Published application
Electrically powered boom vang for a sailboat
OwnerWolfgang Falbinventor
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Abstract
A linear thread driven telescopic boom vang which is driven by a unit with at least one electric motor with an adapted planetary gear connected to a bearing case that contains thrust and bushing type bearings to accommodate a flange of a threaded rod that will extend or contract an extension arm through a drive nut fixed to it, and where the bearing case is fixed inside the main tube by radial mounted bolts or screws.
Claims4
I claim the invention of a telescopic boom vang, where one tube contains at least one electric motor with an adapted planetary gear which is engaged to a threaded rod which moves a drive nut fixed to a telescopic extension arm.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.