American Hydromath Receives Contract For Cargo Planning Computers

American Hydromath Company, Germantown, N.Y., recently delivered three L O A D O S C O PE Cargo Planning Computers to the American Heavy Lift Shipping Company, a division of Gulf Trading & Transportation Company; one each for the John Henry and 0 Paul Bunyan, and one to be placed and used in the main office.

These vessels are capable of transporting and delivering cargoes having unit weights up to 1,000 tons to developed ports, and because of shallow draft, to remote and primitive areas.

LOADOSCOPE, a solid-state electronic special-purpose computer, automatically calculates and simultaneously displays draft fore and aft, GM required and available, including free surface and KG corrections, the angle of heel, d e a d w e i g h t , and the allowable bending stress or shear stress which a ship will have under any assumed load distribution. The selection of stress is made by positioning a toggle switch and of deadweight, ballast, fuel oil or cargo by keyboard switches. All three centers of gravity, the X, Y, and Z coordinates of the load are taken into account, as inputs.

An alphanumeric printer gives the operator a hard copy of all inputs and outputs. LOADOSCOPE acts as a situation display board.

For free literature describing L O A D O S C O P E Loading Computers, write Robert M. Kristal, American Hydromath Company, Box 299, Buckwheat Bridge Road, Germantown, N.Y. 12526.

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