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7631608 |
Underwater cable cutter apparatus
An apparatus for cutting an underwater cable, wire or line is provided. The apparatus includes a body with a lid and a base. A piston is located, within the body, and a piston rod is coupled to the...
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7329163 |
Rope-severing device
A rope-severing device includes a first sleeve having a first axis. A second sleeve is provided abutting and slideably oriented with the first sleeve. The second sleeve has a second axis, wherein...
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7207253 |
Parachute line cutting device
The present invention is to improve the mechanical characteristics of a pyrotechnical parachute line cutting device. By enforcing the mechanical traction on the electrical connection wire by Kevlar...
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6754959 |
Hand-held, cartridge-actuated cutter
Cartridge-actuated cutter ( 10 ), held in a single hand, generally includes frame ( 20 ) and barrel assembly ( 40 ). Frame ( 20 ) includes grip ( 26 ), trigger ( 30 ) firing pin ( 28 ), and pivot...
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6397948 |
Shearing arrangement for subsea umbilicals
A load limiting break away arrangement for a subsea umbilical includes telescoping inner and outer bodies. The inner body includes multiple cross-bored holes; the outer body has slotted openings on...
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6038807 |
Underwater fishing line cutter
An underwater fishing line cutter includes a housing with forward and rearward sections and a slot extending along the side thereof. A line support is mounted in each forward and rearward section...
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5771833 |
Arrangement for sweeping moored lines
An arrangement for sweeping moored mines (8) with at least one cable cutter (4) that is arranged on a sweeping line (2) and is designed for cutting through the mooring line (9) for a respective...
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5703315 |
Device and method for transversely cutting a band
A band cutter transversely cuts a band having a longitudinal axis and major and minor transverse dimensions perpendicular to the band's longitudinal axis, the major dimension of the band being...
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5419272 |
Explosive cutter for mine moorings
An explosive cutter for severing a mooring of a moored mine includes a securing apparatus for attaching the explosive cutter to a mooring and for detaching the explosive cutter from an underwater...
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5351359 |
Anchor chain cleaning device
A cleaning device 20 for cleaning a boat's deployed anchor chain 14, or for cleaning ropes, lines or similar items, and having: i) a generally O-shaped handle 21 having a central through opening 22...
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5288036 |
Pivoting wire deflection and severing system
A pivoting wire deflection and severance (PWDS) system that provides protection against wire/cable strikes for aircraft, especially helicopters, having external, belly-mounted gun systems that are...
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5261344 |
Self-contained system for surface ship protection against moored contact mines
A minesweeping system, self-contained within the water vessel sought to be rotected against contact-actuated moored mines, effective against moored mines which are directly in the path of the...
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5209175 |
Emergency release device for drilling
A system for severing anchor cable mooring lines and oil well drill pipes is disclosed in which a primary hydraulic system containing a first fluid under pressure is utilized to actuate cutters and...
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5177317 |
Cable cutter assembly
An explosive-type cable cutter assembly which includes a breech housing having a central passageway formed in it and a first slot extending from the exterior surface of the breech housing and...
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5042413 |
Device for severing underwater mooring lines and cables
The invention relates to an underwater cable cutting device which is used in combination with a geophysical exploration apparatus carrying a depth control unit. The depth control unit is provided...
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5025972 |
Apparatus for patching a hole in the hull of a moving ship
Apparatus for remotely placing and welding a patch over an underwater breach in the hull of a ship. The apparatus is lowered into position over the side of the ship by a winch and cable, then held...
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5007346 |
Device for detecting and/or sweeping electrically controlled mines
A device for detecting and/or sweeping electrically controlled mines, which evice will provide an indication of the presence of a control cable connected to the mine, and will serve as a...
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4992786 |
Electrical conductor detector
Apparatus is disclosed for detecting partially submerged wires and determng the location of the above water portion thereof by injecting into the submerged portion a radio frequency electrical...
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4970957 |
Minehunting apparatus for removing moored mines
A minehunting apparatus is carried by an underwater transporting drone to the mooring cable of a mine. The minehunting apparatus includes a housing and clamping levers pivotably mounted on the...
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4970981 |
Chute river mine sweep
A water fillable chute, to be employed as a submerged tractor device is cected to a plurality of wire severing grapnels by means of a metallic chain for sweeping command type river mines.
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4826103 |
Active cable-cutting assembly for aircraft
An active, automatic-firing, impact responsive cable-cutting apparatus for use on conventional aircraft such as helicopters for virtually instantaneously forcibly severing obstructive cables. A...
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4821665 |
Submersible ROV for cleaning and inspecting metal
A submersible ROV removes extraneous material from the surface of submerged metal with a cleaning tool and measures the thickness of the metal with an ultrasonic probe. A camera allows visual...
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4805547 |
Anchor for hooking, severing and holding marine cable
An anchor for hooking and cutting a submarine cable comprises an anchor body part, a cable-hooking part and a connecting part, these parts being connected together into a form like a fishing hook....
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4761649 |
Cable detector
A cable detector has a plurality of rotatably series connected hooks having an opening mouth for accepting a cable on sea bottom with an equal angular intervals, a contact pressure sensing means...
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4718871 |
Aquatic growth cutter
An upper and a lower blade are fixed together at an adjustable angle and have means for mounting same on the leading edge of the propeller drive housing of an inboard/outboard motor to cut kelp and...
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4696234 |
Device for destroying water mines and mine-sweeping method
This invention relates to an apparatus for destroying sea mines, especially anchored cable mines, and to an improved mine-sweeping method. The apparatus consists of an active device and upthrust...
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4690091 |
Securing arrangement so executed as to be tripped on actuation
A securing arrangement so executed as to be tripped for release on actuation for the purpose of changing the state of an attached item of equipment. It is so executed as to secure the equipment by...
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4640163 |
Umbilical safety joint
A safety joint for a multitube hose bundle which separates and severs the control hoses when a predetermined tension is exceeded. The control hoses are severed by a rotating cutting blade activated...
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4606293 |
Explosively actuated mine cable marker device
A device for clamping a marker to a mine mooring cable upon severing by a tter utilizes a V-shaped body having a liner that is explosively deformed into clamping engagement with the cable in...
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H000105 |
Lightweight hydraulically fired minesweeping cutter
A minesweeping cutter device includes a tubular body closed at one end and aving a cable engaging recess at the other end, a barrel member reciprocable in the body by cable engagement to fire a...
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4587733 |
Percussion device
Percussion device for triggering the primer of a blasting charge of an actuation device. It comprises a striker (4) moveably housed and retained in a support (1), as well as a helical traction...
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4495849 |
Remotely activated cable cutter
This invention improves on explosively actuated cable cutters in that it orporates a remote capability of activating the cutter. The improved apparatus comprises an acoustical transducer for...
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4463496 |
Deep submergence vehicle (DSV) lightweight cable cutter
In improved cable cutter for undersea use is presented which has a self-cained, pressure compensated hydraulic system which allows it to operate in the deep ocean. The cable cutter is designed to...
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4447952 |
Device for underwater cryogenic cutting
An underwater cutting or penetrating device includes a source of liquid nogen for cooling a workpiece to a cryogenic temperature before impact by an explosively driven member. Attachment by magnet...
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4407467 |
Tactical wire-cutter system for helicopters
A tactical wire-cutting system for helicopters includes a forwardly extending probe having a plurality of explosive cutting charges disposed along the probe. The probe is inclined with respect to...
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4223626 |
Support for underwater mine anchor-line cutter
A channel-shape sweep line retainer extends along the leading front edge of an elevating fin, with the open side of the retainer facing the trailing rear edge of the fin. Extending across the fin...
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4148257 |
Explosive cutting device
An explosive cutting device comprising an upper and lower member, each having a charge retaining area and a standoff area, a linear shaped explosive charge contained within each charge retaining...
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4128071 |
Underwater mine chain/cable cutter
1. In an improved paravane the combination comprising; A body unit, A charge housing, Means for slideably engaging said charge housing with said body unit, A mooring line engaging means...
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4120246 |
Submarine explosive cable cutting device towed by a towing cable
A submarine explosive device for cutting anchoring chains or cables of sea mines. The device is towed through the water by a mine sweeping vessel via a towing cable. The device includes a gripper...
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4112862 |
Apparatus and means for permanently marking a buoyant mine which has been severed from its mooring wire during mine sweeping operations
A frangible container is pivotally connected to the sweep wire of mine sweeping equipment so as to intercept the mine mooring wire passing therealong and be pivoted thereby so as to connect thereto...
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4108071 |
Cutting device having a shaped charge in a cavity of revolution
A cutting device for producing a cutting jet from a shaped charge in a cavity of revolution comprising a body provided with a blind hole of revolution constituted from the bottom by a...
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4074650 |
Expendable light-weight minesweeping cutter
1. In an underwater mine cable cutter of the cartridge-chisel type adapted o be pulled forwardly through the water by a sweep line provided with a cutter stop A stabilizing fin having a front...
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4057026 |
Pyrotechnic cutter apparatus
A pyrotechnic cutter for cutting an object such as a buoy-rope, tube, cable or the like and adapted to be mounted on a submarine vehicle, and including a fixed arm containing an explosive charge...
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4040376 |
Completely expendable mine anchor line cutting tool
A mine anchor line cutter is slidable lengthwise of a cutter body provided with a bore behind the cutter for receiving an explosive charge that is detonated by the mine anchor line that is to be...
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4038901 |
Submergible detonating device
A submergible ignition device for a submarine explosive cable cutter adapted to cut the anchoring chains and steel cables of sea mines by detonating an explosive charge. A detonator is mounted in a...
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4020780 |
Mooring cable cutting system
An improved cable or chain cutting implement comprises a two piece body pion with sharpened cutting edges on one end thereof. The two pieces of the body portion are configured so as to encompass a...
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4016728 |
Device for severing underwater cables
A device is attachable to an outwardly extensible, rotatable arm of a manned submergible chamber and is formed with a horizontally pivoted gate to engage and hold a cable upon rotation of the arm....
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4004540 |
Galvanic detector for detecting the cutting of a command wire
An apparatus and method for detecting the presence of, and severing command ables submerged in an aqueous medium, utilizing a galvanic current pulse generated by a galvanic cell with one electrode...
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3967460 |
Apparatus for use in replacing broken guidelines
Apparatus is disclosed which permits a broken guideline which normally extends upwardly from an underwater guidepost to be cut and replaced in one trip.
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3961592 |
Quick release
A quick release device for a line to be subjected to tension, and a method for using the device wherein a remotely generated control signal is received by a control signal receiver which acts to...
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