SHIP (VARIANTS)

Abstract

The invention relates to shipbuilding and can be used in reconditioning in order to economize fuel and to increase speed. The technical problem is solved by the shipboard installation of air compressors, air receiver tanks, pass valves, air conduits, air separating conduits, air intakes and air injectors, which are interconnected by air ducts. An air separating conduit is mechanically secured in the bow of the ship and has air injectors secured along the centre thereof up to the stern. The injectors direct a jet of air backwards so that the jet of air thrusts the ship forwards, then the air rises along the sides of the ship, maintaining a layer of air between the ship and the water, thus reducing water resistance. The injectors in the bow direct a jet of air such that the ship is constantly sailing into an air space.

Claims

1. A ship including air compressors, flow control valves, air intakes, receivers, airway ducts, air separation ducts and air injectors, wherein the air separation duct through the airway ducts and the flow control valves is connected to the receivers, the air separation duct is mechanically fixed at a bow part of the ship beginning from a waterline going to a bottom of the ship, and then continues along the bottom of the ship to an aft, and the air injectors are fixed at the air separation duct at different distances from each other depending on a specific situation, so that an air jet is directed backwards or backwards with a slight slope downward to push the ship forward and in a way to let the air to be evenly distributed over two sides of the ship; wherein the air injectors are installed as one row in a middle or as two rows separately for each side, the injectors are designed in a way to let the air rising upward could dissipate and cover an entire area of the sides submerged in the water and create an air layer between the ship and water to reduce the friction between the ship and water surface; wherein the bow part injectors are performed in a way to make it possible to direct the air to create an air space in front at the moment of ship upfloat to reduce a water resistance at the bow part of the ship.

2. The ship according to claim 1, characterized in that the injectors are different in size and can be self-regulating in any known method to change a direction of the injection.

3. The ship according to claim 1, characterized in that the injectors are provided with non-return valves to avoid water penetration into the air separation ducts.

4. The ship according to claim 1, characterized in that, in order to increase an efficiency of an air-displacing force of water, the ship is designed wider than an upper part remaining below the waterline.

5. The ship according to claim 1, characterized in that instead of compressors, the ship is equipped with jet engines where a nozzle is connected to the air separation duct in a way to let exhaust gases through the injectors to be supplied under and in front the ship and the air is pumped in a same way from a front of the ship above the waterline.

6. The ship according to claim 1, characterized in that the air injectors are installed in front of the ship on an elongated air separation duct made of a metal profile of different lengths fixed to a front part of the ship at the end of which the air injectors are fixed in a way to let the air jet to be directed back to the side the ship below a ship bottom level so that the air could rise and reach a level at which the ship travels at a moment when the ship is entering there to create a low pressure in front of the ship at a moment the ship is entering there to reduce a water resistance from the front part of the ship, and a pressure of the jet that presses on the water pushes the ship forward.

7. A ship including air compressors, flow control valves, air intakes, receivers, airway ducts, air separation ducts and air injectors, wherein the air separation duct through airway ducts and flow control valves is connected to the receivers, the air separation duct is mechanically fixed on sides of the ship, on a bow part of the ship and at a ship bottom transversally to a length of the ship and in horizontal plane, several rows at different heights of the submerged part of the ship hull, several air injectors are mechanically fastened on the air-separation duct depending on the breadth of the ship, several air injectors are directed parallel to a downward slope of the bow part of the ship and backward in different order and direction depending on a specific site of their installation, the injectors are self-adjustable and are installed on the air separation duct in a way to let the air to be supplied in front of the ship and under the ship along a whole width at once, and in any case are directed backwards or with a slight slope in different directions, in a way to let the air jet to push the ship forward or forward and upward, the bow part and the oval bottom of the ship are wide and flattened, the bow part of the ship is sloped backward beginning from a waterline at different angles and the bottom is sloped upward at different angles starting from the front at different points along the length of the ship in a way to let the air along the bottom retreat and push the ship forward; the ship bottom can also be sloped downwards starting from the bow part at different angles so that at a speed the ship could travel supported by an air cushion upward and forward, in this case a rear side is extended from the bottom to the side and forward in a way to let the air up along the rear side to pressed the rear side and push the ship forward and upward.

8. The ship according to claim 7, characterized in that there are shallow airway ducts at the bottom and along the sides of the ship, which gradually narrow from the front to an aft part, so that an air mass gradually dissipates along the sides to maintain an air layer between the ship and a water surface, the airway ducts can be of different types and a distance between the airway ducts is also different.

9. A ship including air compressors, flow control valves, air intakes, receivers, airway ducts, air separation ducts and air injectors, wherein the air separation duct through the airway ducts and the flow control valves is connected to the receivers, the air separation duct is mechanically fixed in a bow part of the ship, beginning from a waterline and to a ship bottom, and then the air separation duct continues along the bottom of the ship to an aft, and the air injectors are fixed at the air separation duct at different distances from each other depending on a specific situation so that the air jet could be directed backwards or backwards with a slight slope downward to push the ship forward and in a way the air can be evenly distributed along two sides of the ship and the airway ducts are fixed on the sides of a watercraft to let the air along the airway ducts to pass backwards and upwards; wherein the airway duct is performed as a flat metal triangle or other shape and is mechanically fixed on the sides of the ship from an upper side or from the upper and a front sides, depending on the shape and location, sloped downwards for form the airway duct by a flattened metal and a hull side, and in a way to make a back side of the airway duct higher so the air would go up and back in the airway duct to push the ship forward, wherein the airway ducts are made in shape of a metal corner or as other shaped profile and are embedded in the sides of the ship from inside, and there is an opening of a rectangular or triangular shape cut in the hull side so the air rise from the bottom of the ship and enter a slot in the sides and along the airway ducts fixed to the sides on the inside could pass up and back, at that the airway ducts are narrowed beginning from a front lower part so the air passing backwards could gradually pass through sides of the airway duct to maintain an air layer between the ship and the water, wherein the airway ducts along a width and a length are different, an angle between a flat metal and the hull side, the slope of the airway ducts from a horizontal plane is different and shall be calculated individually for each ship; wherein in cases a surface mounted external airway ducts are used, they are installed in a way first ones cover next ones up to the aft part, resembling a semi-open and sloped down fish scales, wherein the airway ducts may be of a different profile, and on the sides of the ship are installed in horizontal rows, on a different distance between rows, wherein the air duct can also overlap each other.

10. The ship according to claim 9, characterized in that the airway ducts are mechanically fixed to a rear side horizontally, or the ship shall be designed in a way that the rear side has an appropriate slope so that the air could press on it and flow back, and the ship could travel forward, the slope of air outlets on the rear side is different, the air outlets can be hinge mounted and to be adjusted depending on a speed of the ship by any known method.

11. The ship of claim 9 is characterized in that it is made of a suitable profile, where there are already airway ducts for passing air upward and downward through them.

12. A ship including air compressors, flow control valves, air intakes, receivers, airway ducts, air separation ducts and air injectors, wherein the air separation duct through airway ducts and the flow control valves is connected to the receivers, the air intakes are connected to the compressor via the airway ducts; the air intakes are installed along sides of a bow ship above water line so that the air is pumped from a front of the ship, to remove a resistance of the oncoming air and get forward traction, the air intakes are of a known form, and the air intakes are installed in different orders along the sides so as to cover an entire volume of a counter air flow at any speed of the ship.

Description

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

[0043] The invention is explained by the following figures:

[0044] Fig. No. 1 is a side view of a ship, where: [0045] 1waterline level; [0046] 2rear side; [0047] 3air ducts of the rear side; [0048] 4air duct; [0049] 5air separation duct; [0050] 6air injectors; [0051] 7bow part air injectors; [0052] 8side of the ship; [0053] 9air intakes.

[0054] Fig. No. 2 is an underside view of the ship, where: [0055] 10side of the ship above the waterline.

[0056] Fig. No. 3 is the type of ship where the outside air ducts are built in the sides of the ship; section A shows an embodiment with a corner where: [0057] 15air duct end faces are plugged with caps; [0058] 16air duct (corner).

[0059] FIG. 4view of the ship where the external injectors are installed in one row in the middle of the air separation duct, where: [0060] 11airway duct of the second upper row.

[0061] FIG. 5 shows a ship with a rounded duct, with a wide upper part, rear view.

[0062] Fig. No. 6, No. 7, No. 8 show three of the multiple possible embodiments of air ducts built into the sides, where: [0063] 8side of the ship, fragment; [0064] 12; 13 and 14are possible embodiments of embedded air ducts.

[0065] Fig. No. 9 shows a possible view of a high-speed ship, where [0066] 19horizontal air separation duct for the bow part; [0067] 20horizontal air separation duct for the bottom of the ship; 21air duct from the bottom of the ship; [0068] 22injectors installed in a horizontal air separation duct.

[0069] Fig. No. 10 shows a high-speed ship from underside, where [0070] 17injectors installed in an airway duct; [0071] 18airway duct.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENT

[0072] The ship operates as follows:

[0073] The started engines provide the operation of air compressors (which are equipped on the ship), which draw the air from the front of the ship through the air intakes 9 and the ship is pulled forward, filling the air receivers (not shown), the control center monitors and regulates the airflow from the receivers through the flow control valves, air passes through air ducts (not shown), air-separation ducts 5 pass and through the injectors 4 the air jet is directed under the ship backward and downward, pushing the ship upwards and forward.

[0074] The air injectors 7 in the bow part of the ship direct the air jet into the water downwards and backwards almost in parallel to the slope of the bow part of the ship and push the ship up and forward. Air layers and air-water mass under low pressure occur in front of the ship at its full height and across the width, and the ship is pulled forward. The whole air mass is pressed upwards under the water pressure and enters the air ducts 4 (outside air ducts) that are fixed along the sides of the ship 8 and through the air ducts 4 flows up and back, pushing the ship upward and forward. Along the way along the sides of the ship air in the outer air ducts gradually passes over the sides (as the air ducts narrow) and maintains an air layer between the ship and water.

[0075] The ship travels forward and gains on the air mass from the bow part, air from the front of the ship dissipates over the surface of the ship from the bow part entering the air ducts, adding pressure to the ship that moves the ship forward.

[0076] Air bubbles and lines appear between the ship and the water and scatter, broke and spread throughout the outer surface of the ship when it travels, and the water resistance decreases to a minimum.

[0077] The air rises from the underside and pushes the sloped air ducts of the ship, transferring the force ahead and upward. After that, the air rises frictioning along the sides and pushes the ship upwards. Air pressurized by the water, leaves through the air ducts upward and backward and pushes the ship up and forward. If the air ducts are built into the hull, their resistance to the forward travel is suppressed. In cases of surface mounted outside air ducts, they are installed in a way that the front ones could cover the next ones, resembling the slightly open and turned down fish scales at an angle from one to 89 degrees. The air ducts are installed in that way up to the aft of the ship in order to reduce the resistance, and if there is no distance between the rows, then the upper ones cover the lower ones. A portion of air is supplied under the rear side, and it pushes the ship forward while rising along the slope of the rear side and in the course of travel, when, after passing the sides of the ship the air remaining under water under the water pressure comes under the rear side of the ship in the low pressure zone and rises along the slope of the rear side and adds a push force.

[0078] Considering the multiple injectors and external air ducts on the ship and the fact that they are installed at different locations on the ship, the generated pushing force is significant and exists at the entire outer surface of the ship remaining submerged. And by the combination of all forces contributing to the ship travel and the reduced resistance of water and air exerting to the ship, it travels forward and is able to develop the higher speed if compared to the superseded models of ship and provides a possibility to save on fuel.

[0079] If the ship is equipped with jet engines, air injection is also performed from the bow part of the ship to suppress the resistance of the oncoming air and to lift the forward traction force, and the air mass is supplied in front of the ship and under the ship sloped backward and downward in order to obtain the pushing force exerting forward and upward for the ship travel and to obtain an air layer between the ship and water and reduce the friction forces between the water with the sides of the ship.

[0080] For high-speed ships and barges, the air-separating ducts 19 and 20 are installed at different heights of the ship hull perpendicular to the length of the ship in several rows, depending on the length and speed of the ship, and the injectors 22 and 17 are set in a way to let the air under the ship to be injected along the entire width of the ship bottom and in front of the ship on the entire width of the bow part and in a way to create the airspace in front of the ship at the moment when the ship enters this space and in a way to let the air dissipate along the sides of the ship to the entire length up to the aft part to suppress the resistance from the bow part and from the sides of the ship. The air jet is directed under the ship, backwards or with a slight slope in different directions, depending on the slope of the bottom and through the air ducts 18 air passes backwards and, due to the oval shape of the bottom, passes along the sides and maintains the air layer between the ship and water through the entire area where it passes.

[0081] High-speed ship models are built with elongated rear sides and a lower part sloped to the bow part in a way to let the air mass that rises on the rear side push the ship up and forward. The ship can be equipped with an air propeller to increase the speed by any known method and can easily overcome the reduced resistance of water, the ship is fuel efficient.