US PATENT SUBCLASS 114 / 293
ANCHORING ARRANGEMENT


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293ANCHORING ARRANGEMENT


DEFINITION

Classification: 114/293

(under the class definition) Device wherein a vessel is provided with a plurality of lines each of which has means to releasably engage the sea bed, which lines are disposed so as to hold the vessel substantially stationary with respect to a single spot on the sea bed.

(1) Note. Vessels found herein usually have at least a bow and a stern anchoring line which hold the vessel over a single point on the ocean floor regardless of the effects of current, tide, wind or the like.

SEE OR SEARCH CLASS

52, Static Structures (e.g., Buildings),

155+, for structures employing discrete disparate earth anchors.