US 7,475,650 B2
	Device for an anchor with a retrieval provision
Roderick Michael Ruinen, AC Krimpen a/d Ijssel (Netherlands); and David Peter Van Den Ende, AC Krimpen a/d Ijssel (Netherlands)
Assigned to Rijhof Ankers Beheer B.V., Ijssel (Netherlands)
Appl. No. 11/792,549 PCT Filed Dec. 07, 2005, PCT No. PCT/NL2005/000841 § 371(c)(1), (2), (4) Date Jun. 07, 2007, PCT Pub. No. WO2006/062397, PCT Pub. Date Jun. 15, 2006.
Claims priority of application No. 1027677 (NL), filed on Dec. 07, 2004.
Prior Publication US 2007/0261628 A1, Nov. 15, 2007
Int. Cl. B63B 21/46 (2006.01); B63B 21/32 (2006.01)

U.S. Cl. 114—299  [114/301]

25 Claims

1. Device for connecting an anchor line to an anchor, the anchor has a fluke and according to a direction of penetration can penetrate into an anchoring ground by exerting a tensile force on the anchor line, wherein the device is provided with an attachment for attachment of the anchor line to the device and at least two attachments for attachment of two fluke-anchor line connection elements which at locations that are spaced apart in a forward direction of penetration are attached to the fluke, wherein at least one of the attachments is adapted for release by swinging the anchor line with respect to the device and wherein the at least one attachment by said swinging of the anchor line is movable between a first position in which a first of the fluke-anchor line connection elements is attached to the device and a second position in which the first fluke-anchor line connection element can release from the device.