A NEW METHOD OF PROPELLING A SHIP.
AN ENDLESS CHAIN DEVICE.
Instead of employing the conventional screw propeller or the paddlewheel, Fenelon Pelissier, of Gouaives, Haiti, has hit upon an entirely different principle, which he has protected by a patent. Mr Pelissier uses two endless chains, which pass around the hull from bow to stern, and which carry blades. The chains in question run in and out of openings in the hull, fore and aft, and are guided by eprocket wheels. In order to drive the chains by the ship's engine, sprocket wheels are provided within the hull, which sprocket wheels are carried on a shaft connected with the engine-shaft. Thus it is possible to drive the chip continuously. In order to guide the chains effectively, special keelsons are employed, so formed as to constitute chain-runs. The chains on opposite sides of the craft are driven independently from the engine. In order to turn quickly, one chain may he driven forv.ard, and the other toward the stern. Fa order to move forward or astern, >oth chains are driven in the same direction. A special arrangement has j&en devised for applying the invention to existing ships.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 8797, 7 December 1906, Page 2
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195A NEW METHOD OF PROPELLING A SHIP. Star (Christchurch), Issue 8797, 7 December 1906, Page 2
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