Portable Powered Hose Reel.

摘要

The size of the hose reel presently used by Naval Amphibious Construction Battalions to store and deploy the 5,000feet of 6-inch-diameter buoyant fuel line restricts system mobility. The requirements and specifications for a portable powered hose reel that can be transported by truck or aircraft were developed by NCEL,and a prototype unit was designed and built under an NCEL contract. This reel has seven interchangeable hose drums,each capable of holding about 750feet of 6-inch-diameter hose,and a base unit with a diesel-engine-driven hydraulic power system, a stress-wire drum with level-wind device capable of holding 5,000feet of 1/2-inch steel cable stress wire,and a self-contained device for changing hose drums. Unlike the present reel,the hose can be deployed from the beach or from an LCM-8. Tests indicate that the prototype hose reel is rugged and mechanically satisfactory and it is potentially capable of increasing the versatility of the Amphibious Construction Battalions in deploying the buoyant fuel system. (Modified author abstract)