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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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.
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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