# US 4,398,483 A · Vee type planing hull with AFT tapered wedges

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- Number: US 4,398,483 A
- Document ID: US4398483A
- Status: Granted
- Kind: A
- Application number: 06/285,021
- Filed: 1981-07-20
- Granted: 1983-08-16
- Earliest claimed: 1981-07-20
- Assignees: Wood Manufacturing Company, Incorporated
- Inventors: Forrest L. Wood; Dale H. Jensen; Kenneth P. Poley; Charles C. Hoover; Gary L. Wilson
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US4398483A

## CPC

- B63B 1/18: of hydroplane type
- B63B: SHIPS OR OTHER WATERBORNE VESSELS; EQUIPMENT FOR SHIPPING (arrangements of vessel ventilation, heating, cooling, or air-conditioning B63J2/00; floating substructures as supports of dredgers or soil-shifting machines E02F9/06)

## Abstract

Porpoising control in a high speed planing hull is effected during straight, on plane running and in turning maneuvers by a novel configuration of aft tapered wedges bridging the aft, exit ends of the outboard and next adjacent, inboard running surfaces.

## Claims

### Claim 1

A deep vee entry hull having central, intermediate and outboard running surfaces extending fore and aft thereof intermediate the bow and stern; said intermediate running surfaces extending to said stern; said intermediate and outboard running surfaces being smoothly continuous throughout their lengths and terminating at the extreme after ends thereof in wedge means extending across the full widths thereof; and said wedge means being tapered aft.

### Claim 2

A deep vee entry hull having central, intermediate and outboard running surfaces extending fore and aft thereof intermediate the bow and stern; said central running surfaces terminating at the after end thereof in a transverse step immediately adjacent and forward of the stern; said intermediate running surfaces extending to said stern and straddling said transverse step; said intermediate and outboard running surfaces being smoothly continuous throughout their lengths and terminating at the extreme after ends thereof in wedge means extending across the full widths thereof; and said wedge means being tapered aft.

### Claim 3 (depends on 2)

The deep vee entry hull of claim 2 including inboard and outboard chine pairs respectively defining the inboard and outboard limits of said intermediate and outboard running surfaces at the aft ends thereof; the outer running surface wedge means extending aft from the outboard chine pair of said outboard running surfaces to merge with the extreme aft end of the inboard chine pair of said outer running surfaces, and the intermediate running surface wedge means extending aft from the inboard chine pair of said intermediate running surfaces to merge with the extreme aft end of the outboard chine pair of said intermediate running surfaces.

### Claim 4 (depends on 3)

The deep vee entry hull of claim 3 wherein the outboard chine pair of said intermediate running surfaces and said inboard chine pair of said outboard running surfaces constitute a common chine pair.