Auxiliary operating method of a gabarra and its corresponding gabarra intended to navigate by the sea. (Machine-translation by Google Translate, not legally binding)

摘要

Method of auxiliary drive of a barge and its corresponding barge intended to navigate the sea that includes longitudinal tunnels of bow and stern each having a limb arranged in opposite directions towards the interior and towards the exterior of the vessel, terminating said extremities towards the outside of the ship through end holes and said ends being finished towards the interior of the ship through bottom holes; transverse tunnels of bow and stern having ends arranged in opposite directions towards the interior and towards the exterior of the ship, said extremities being terminated towards the exterior of the ship by lateral holes and joining said extremities towards the interior of the ship respectively their tunnels associated longitudinals adjacent to their respective inboard sides of the vessel; bow and stern propellers mounted respectively in said longitudinal tunnels to draw water in any one of the respectively associated holes and to discharge said water out of any other associated holes; engines mounted in the center of the ship in said barge to respectively drive said propellers in any combination of directions of rotation; valves installed so as to operate in each of said bottom holes and in each of said tunnels respectively adjacent to each of said associated helices to open and close said tunnels in any combination between them; vertical blades rotatably mounted on their vertical axes within each of said end holes for the dual purpose of keeping foreign bodies out of the tunnels and to help steer the barge; extendable vanes housed near each lateral directional orifice of water circulation in a horizontal plane inside and outside said orifice, and means-motors mounted near said vanes and vanes to rotate said vanes and to extend said vanes with the object of helping control that barge. (Machine-translation by Google Translate, not legally binding)