THE PROPELLER

Jaime Fernández Alonso

INDEX

• HISTORY ( pages 3-4)

• GEOMETRY (pages 5-11)

• BIBLIOGRAPHY (pages 12)

HISTORY
EARLY DEVELOPMENTS

• Egyptians (2.500 a.C) → water-Wheel used for Irrigation

• Archimedes’ screw (212 a.C) → Bailing boats and irrigation
• Leonardo da Vinci → Helicopter (1486)
• Toogood and Hays (1661) → screws for waterjet propulsión
• Rober Hook → horizontal watermill
• Burnelli, Alexis-Jean-Pierre, James Watt → Ideas
• Yale students → The Turtle (1775)
• Josef Ressel (1827)→ first ship successfully driven by an Archimedes screw-type
propeller
• John Patch (1832)→ invented one of the first versions of the screw propeller
HISTORY
SCREW PROPELLERS
GEOMETRY
• Blades
• Pitch
• Skew
• Rake
• Hub
GEOMETRY
NUMBER OF BLADES

• NUMBER OF BLADES

• FUNCTION
GEOMETRY
NUMBER OF BLADES

• VIBRATION

• EFICIENTY
GEOMETRY
PITCH
• P/D

• If for any given HP the pitch is too big, the propeller becomes heavy and demands more power than the engine can
reach and viceversa, if the pitch is too small then we have a light propeller that wouldn't absorb the engine's full
power.
GEOMETRY
SKEW

• SKEW ANGLE (IN GENERAL)

• SKEW DISTANCE (SECTIONS)

GEOMETRY
RAKE

Rake is the degree that the blades slant forward

or backwards in relation to the hub. Rake can
affect the flow of water through the propeller,
and as implications with respect to boat
performance.
Aft Rake helps to trim the bow of the boat
upward, which often results in less wetted
surface area and therefore higher top end speed.
Forward, or negative rake, helps hold the bow of
the boat down. This is more common in workboat
type applications.
GEOMETRY
HUB

• INNER CYLINDER
• HUB ,KERNELL
BIBLIOGRAPHY

• https://www.miwheel.com/resources/terms/
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propeller#History_2