摘要:
A propeller includes a hub having mounted on the central end part thereof a rotating fitting which permits the passage therethrough of a fluid circulating within two conduits which pass longitudinally of the fitting. The fluid operates on opposite ends of an annular piston to impart thereto rectilinear movement, which in turn is transformed into rotation of the blades of the propeller due to lugs extending from the piston and being eccentrically engaged with the blades. The hub of the propeller is completely free to turn without affecting the driving shaft. The assembly is positioned completely outside the stern of the ship.
摘要:
In a controllable pitch propeller arrangement of the type having a hydraulic piston-and-cylinder type motor in the propeller hub for effecting pitch settings, the power oil is passed to and from the motor through oil tubes nested in the hollow propeller shaft, and the follow-up or feedback member, which gives read-out of actual pitch, is relatively isolated from the temperature effects of the power oil, preferably by arranging the follow-up or feedback member as the central member of a nested arrangement in which the power oil tubes are radially spaced from the feedback member about the circumference of the nested assembly. Preferably the feedback member and the oil tubes are arranged as a unitary bundle, made up of several sections, and the oil tubes of each section are provided with sliding seals at the section coupling, whereby thermal expansion and contraction of the oil tubes is absorbed by the sliding seals in each section and will not affect the overall length of the bundle or the feedback member, thus preventing or minimizing erroneous pitch feedback signals. The follow-up member preferably is tubular, and an air tube passes therethrough to feed air to the propeller blades.