US PATENT SUBCLASS 114 / 251
.~.~ Flexible lashing


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242  DF  TOWING OR PUSHING {7}
249  DF  .~ Coupling means {3}
251.~.~ Flexible lashing


DEFINITION

Classification: 114/251

(under subclass 249) Device wherein a pliable member holds one vessel in contact with and fast to another.

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246, for steering arrangements which employ a pair of flexible lashing to connect a push vessel to a barge, where one of the lashings connects the port side of the push vessel

to the port side of the barge and the other lashing connects the starboard sides and where means are provided to change the relative lengths of the lines to thereby cant the push vessel with respect to the barge to facilitate steering of the connected assemblage.