Floating device connected to a ship, for towing a submerged member with a lateral shift thereof with respect to the ship route

Claim 1

In a device for shifting a submerged member towed from a ship with respect to the moving direction of said ship, which comprises floating means, and submerged deflector means fixed to said floating means, said deflector means including a plurality of parallel paddles curved in the same direction, each having a generatrix perpendicular to the plane of flotation, the improvement comprising said paddles being arranged in two assemblies respectively placed at the head and at the rear of said floating means, and said floating means comprising two elongated floating members, each having a longitudinal cross-section with a curved segment at one side thereof, the respective chords of said segments extending along a direction parallel to the longitudinal axis of said floating means, and the curvatures of said curved segments being oriented in the same direction as the curvature of said paddles.