Buoys, rafts, and aquatic devices inventions 07/07

20070173144 - Sliding board having reinforced structure: A sliding board includes a board body made of a light material, and at least one reinforcing unit mounted in the board body to reinforce a structural strength of the board body and including a plurality of reinforcing bars which are connected serially to form the reinforcing unit. Thus, the... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20070173143 - High efficiency hydrofoil and swim fin designs: Methods are disclosed for increasing lift and decreasing drag on hydrofoils and swim fins. Methods are disclosed for providing a hydrofoil with a substantially longitudinal recess or venting system located substantially along the center axis of the hydrofoil. Methods also include providing the attacking surfaces of hydrofoils with an anhedral... Agent: Peter T. Mccarthy

20070173142 - Methods for creating consistent large scale blade deflections: Methods are disclosed to design resilient hydrofoils (164) which are capable of having substantially similar large scale blade deflections under significantly varying loads. The methods permit the hydrofoil (164) to experience significantly large-scale deflections to a significantly reduced angle of attack under a relatively light load while avoiding excessive degrees... Agent: Peter T. Mccarthy

20070173145 - Surfboard manufacturing apparatus: A surfboard manufacturing machine for fabricating a surfboard is disclosed. The machine may comprise gripper arms and suction arms which rotate and grip the surfboard blank or shaped surfboard as the surfboard manufacturing machine fabricates the surfboard.... Agent: Stetina Brunda Garred & Brucker

20070167095 - Swim fin with adjustable web: A swim fin having a web portion pivotably attached to a shoe portion that is rotatable to a first position substantially perpendicular to the shoe portion for walking and a second position in a plane with the shoe portion for propulsion in water.... Agent: Vedder Price Kaufman & Kammholz

20070167093 - Liferaft system: A liferaft system has a container (10) which contains an inflatable liferaft (24) in a hermetically sealed bag (23) and an emergency pack (29) outside the bag (23). The emergency pack (29) is connected to the liferaft so that, upon inflation of the liferaft (24), the emergency pack (29) is... Agent: Stites & Harbison PLLC

20070167094 - Swim fin with adjustable web: A swim fin having a web portion pivotably attached to a shoe portion that Is rotatable to a first position substantially perpendicular to the shoe portion for walking and a second position in a plane with the shoe portion for propulsion in water.... Agent: Vedder Price Kaufman & Kammholz

20070161302 - River board steering implementation and structural integrity design: I Jeremy Matthews will proceed with my life's work with a marketing orientation that will be dictated by where the rivers are at. I've taken the liberty of counting the rivers in the countries that often have a favorable dollar trade or fair as well as the United States If... Agent: Jeremy Tobias Matthews

20070155259 - Disconnectable mooring system for a vessel: A disconnectable mooring system for a vessel comprises a mooring buoy member and a turret structure mounted in a moonpool of the vessel. The mooring buoy member is anchored to the seabed and has a plurality of passages each adapted to receive a riser. The turret structure has a receptacle... Agent: Westman Champlin & Kelly, P.A.

20070155260 - Transfer system and method for transferring a cryogenic fluid from an onshore unit to a ship by means of a buoy comprising a reel for a flexible hose and which level in the water can be changed: A cryogenic transfer system includes: a cryogenic fluid storage and/or processing structure, an off shore loading and/or offloading structure having a base and a reel element rotatable relative to the base around an axis, a transfer duct extending from the fluid storage and/or processing structure to the loading and/or offloading... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070155261 - Foam deck composite surfboard: A polyethylene foam composite surfboard comprises a longitudinally extending foam core having a top surface, a bottom surface and rail surfaces. A top laminate is bonded to the top surface and rail surfaces. A bottom laminate bonded to the bottom surface. The top laminate or the bottom laminate comprises (a)... Agent: Law Offices Of Clement Cheng

20070155262 - Shock absorbing device for surfboard and bags: A board for water sport gears includes an elongate body and a shock absorbing device is attached on a top surface of the board. The device includes a plurality of ribs and a plurality of walls are connected between the first ribs so as to define a plurality of chambers... Agent: Rosenberg, Klein & Lee

20070155263 - Flying disk rescue device: A hand thrown flying disk used in rescuing individuals in distress comprising of a length of line (10) of which one end is connected to an anchoring clip (11) and a handle (14). With the use of double sided adhesive pads (28 & 24) the other end is spirally wound... Agent: Michael Joon Cha

20070155264 - Life saving necklace: An inflatable necklace designed to be worn around the neck of a young child is provided. The necklace contains a sensor which, in response to a pre-determined period of immersion and/or a sudden increase in pressure, will activate a gas source which inflates one or more bladders which expand outwardly... Agent: J. Bennett Mullinax, LLC