Apparatus for Performing Overhead Work Using Air-Propelled Vessel with Articulating Member

摘要

A wide, flat-bottom, buoyant, amphibious hull with a powered articulating member mounted on the deck. The hull has a shallow draft and distributes its weight over a large area and is propelled by at least one engine-driven propeller rotating above the hull. These features cooperatively provide a vehicle capable of performing overhead work, such as installing or servicing power transmission poles, towers, or other structures located in environmentally sensitive wetlands, swamps, marshes, shallow water, or terrain which is not efficiently accessible by other means.

主权项

1. A vessel comprising:
a. a hull having an upper surface and a substantially flat upper surface; b. at least one drive motor disposed on said upper surface of said hull; c. a propeller affixed to said at least one drive motor; d. at least one rudder positioned aft of said propeller; and e. an articulating boom pivotally disposed on the upper surface of said hull having an extended position and a collapsed position, wherein said at least one drive motor offsets loading imparted on said hull by said articulating boom.