A Two-Bladed Active Rudder,
Abstract
The article discusses an attempt to develop a new type of rudder design by selecting a changed total plan and avoiding the expensive miter gear which would provide for an increased propelling performance at equivalent conditions of flow technique. The present arrangement has a drive system propelled through a hollow rudder shaft by an electric motor in the ship. The propelling chamber consists of a cylindrical nosepiece, coaxial to the rudder shaft. A propeller with an opposite blade pitch is driven, by the vertical drive shaft, into the upper and lower inflow opening of the propeller chamber in the same direction of rotation.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Dec 06, 1968
- Accession Number
- AD0852525
Entities
People
- F. Gutsche
Organizations
- National Air and Space Intelligence Center