Marine power conduit interface assembly
AssigneeBalmoral Comtec Limited
InventorAneel GILL
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Abstract
A marine power conduit interface assembly has a slide slidable within a housing. Sliding of the slide in the housing locks the assembly in a socket of a energy generator. The slide has a leg extending axially within a groove formed in the inner surface of the bore of the housing, connected to a ring with a flange which extends radially outwards from an outer surface of the housing. The ring is connected to the leg by a radially inwardly extending finger passing through a slot in the housing. The lock can be activated and deactivated by sliding of the slide in the housing
Claims12
1-24. (canceled)
A marine power conduit interface assembly comprising:
- a housing having an axis and a bore to receive a marine power conduit;
- at least one slide adapted to slide in an axial direction relative to the housing;
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- a locking device adapted to secure the assembly within a socket of a marine energy generator, the locking device having at least one locking arm movable from a first radially retracted position to a second radially expanded position relative to the axis, and a lock operator adapted to move the locking arm from the first to the second position, wherein the lock operator and the locking arm engage by relative sliding movement along the axis to move the locking arm between the first and second radial positions;
- wherein the locking arm is disposed on the housing and the lock operator is mounted on the slide, and wherein relative sliding movement of the housing and slide in an axial direction moves tapered faces of the lock operator and the locking arm relative to one another to move the locking arm between the first and second radial positions;
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- wherein the assembly comprises a latch having a release position in which the slide is axially movable relative to the housing and a latched position in which relative sliding of the housing and the slide is restricted by the latch.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.