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Electric Boat Awarded $22V2-Million Increase To

Previous Navy Contract

General Dynamics Incorporated,

Electric Boat Division, Groton,

Conn., has been awarded a $22,571,218 face value increase to a previously awarded cost-plus- fixed-fee Navy contract for naval architectural and marine engi- neering support and acquisition of prototype systems and subsystems under the improved performance machinery program. The Naval

Sea Systems Command, Washing- ton, D.C., is the contracting activity.

Saint John Shipbuilding

Upgrades Its CAD/CAM

For Big Frigate Program

Saint John Shipbuilding & Dry

Dock Company, Ltd., in New

Brunswick, Canada, has chosen

AUTOKON and AUTOFIT as its

CAD/CAM systems for carrying out the big Canadian Navy Frig- ate Program contract. The Saint

John yard has been awarded prime contractor responsibility for the detailed design, procurement, and management of the entire pro- gram, including construction of three of the first six vessels in the series.

The system supplier, Shipping

Research Services, will start deliv- ery of the CAD/CAM software shortly. It will be used for detailed design, material takeoff, genera- tion of design and production drawings, and N/C control tapes for steel cutting and pipe bending.

The software will be operated on

Prime computers and use different brands of graphical work stations.

The installation will be a major one.

Saint John Shipbuilding has been an AUTOKON user for a de- cade; the contract implies upgrad- ing to the newest generation of

AUTOKON, while it is SRS' first installation of the AUTOFIT pip- ing engineering system in North

America.

For more information on the

AUTOKON and AUTOFIT systems,

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Marine Society Annual

Dinner Scheduled For

April 9 At Plaza Hotel

The Marine Society of the City of New York will hold its 214th consecutive Annual Dinner on

Monday, April 9, at the Plaza Ho- tel in New York City. Capt. R.N.

LePage, president of the Society, has announced that Capt. Warren

G. Leback, deputy maritime ad- ministrator at the Maritime

Administration, will be the ho- nored guest and speaker. Captain

April 1,1984

Leback, a member of the Marine

Society for more than 25 years, has served with distinction in the commercial sector both at sea and ashore before entering govern- ment service.

The dinner will be in the Grand

Ballroom following a reception from 6:30 to 7:30. Reservations may be made by contacting Capt. Conrad

Nilsen, dinner chairman, at (201) 338-4137, or Ms. Mills at the Ma- rine Society office, (212) 425-0448.

New Beemer Engineering

Catalog Describes Its

Flexible K-Couplings

Beemer Engineering Company of Fort Washington, Pa., offers a new catalog that provides com- plete engineering and application data on Flexible polyurethane elastomeric K-Couplings that will operate at up to 3/16-inch parallel and 15-degree angular misa- lignment.

The couplings and their appli- cations are thoroughly described, and both photographs and dimen- sional drawings are provided. Also included are charts outlining part numbers, sizes and capacities, hor- sepower and torque, and torque capacity versus hours of life.

For a free copy of the new Bee- mer catalog,

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Engineering Excellence

The Cincinnati Gear Company has set the standards for high performance marine gears by specializing in surface hardened and precision ground epicyclic and parallel shaft diesel and gas turbine driven marine propulsion gears.

Product

Leadership

High power density gearing is the new standard for U.S. Navy marine propulsion gearing, and Cincinnati

Gear is leading the way. All of these programs used Cincinnati Gear surface hardened and precision ground marine propulsion gearing: • The PHM/Jetfoil/H.M.S. Speedy (with CODOG drive) made by

Boeing Marine Systems, all have gas turbine drives for the LM-2500 or 501. • The American Enterprise crew- boat was built by Halter Marine,

Inc., with a 501 gas turbine drive. • The T-AO 187 fleet oiler made by

Avondale Shipyards, Inc., has the largest carburized and hardened and precision ground gears in the

U.S. Navy. • The 3K-SES Navy program involved four 40,000 hp CGCO epicyclic gas turbine drives. • Each LCAC produced by Bell

Aerospace Textron has 8 gas turbine powered gearboxes and 24 couplings and clutches pro- vided by CGCO. 3K-SES LCAC

Facility and

Equipment

Precision gear hobbing machine can cut class 14 gears up to 200" in diameter.

Internal hobbing head attachment for internal gears up to 220" pitch diameter.

Precision gear grinder for class 15 surface hardened gears up to 158" in diameter by 63" face.

The Cincinnati Gear Company 5657 WoosterPike, Cincinnati, Ohio 45227 513, 271-7700 Telex \o. 21-4568

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