| 摘要 |
<p>1,089,212. Air cushion vehicles. BRITISH HOVERCRAFT CORPORATION Ltd. Aug. 19, 1965 [Aug. 28, 1964], No. 35257/64. Heading B7K. A flexible skirting assembly for an air cushion vehicle is formed of a single sheet 8 of material 2 which is suspended from the vehicle body by attachments 3 and 4 and inflated to form an unbraced, unrestrained loop in vertical crosssection. The sheet may be imperforate or, as shown in Fig. 2, it may be formed with ports 12 which open into nozzles 9 for the discharge of an air curtain; the shape and position of the nozzles being maintained by diaphragms 10 and chains 11. In a further embodiment the neek of each nozzle is formed by solid members and aerodynamic guiding members are formed at the inner surface of the skirt around each nozzle.</p> |
