Buoys, rafts, and aquatic devices inventions 11/08

20080293315 - Flexible reinforced board: A sports board includes an elongated foam core, a top layer, a bottom layer and at least one flexible flat reinforcement strip. The top layer is laminated to an upper surface of the foam core and has a riding surface, a thickness less than that of the foam core and... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080287018 - Stealth tail quad surfboard: A tail section for a surfboard includes a substantially v-shaped notch or cutout intersecting substantially trailing edges formed between two points. Each of the substantially straight trailing edges extend to the arcuate side of the body of the surfboard.... Agent: Strasburger & Price, LLP

20080287017 - Surfboard and method of construction: Disclosed is a surfboard (10) comprising a foam blank (10), a rail (14) formed using carbon fibre materials (22) on the blank, and a fibreglass laminate enveloping the rail and blank. Alternatively, the blank and rails may be enveloped in a thermally active PVC or similar material.... Agent: Mcdonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

20080280515 - Assembly comprising a non-submersible floating structure and a device for attachment to the sea bottom, and corresponding mooring process: The inventive arrangement comprises a triangular floating unsinkable structure (3) and a coupling device (7) which is positioned between said floating structure (3) and a sea bottom and embodied in the form of a pivot in such a way that it enables the floating structure (3) to be automatically and... Agent: Davidson, Davidson & Kappel, LLC

20080280516 - Marine survival system: Use of the present invention allows a crew member who has suffered a marine emergency, for example, fallen overboard or had to abandon ship, to survive for an extended period of time by providing the tools and equipment found in commercial survival systems yet does so at an economical cost.... Agent: Ms. Victoria Rayles

20080274655 - Floating lng import terminal and method for docking: A floating terminal for offloading an LNG carrier vessel in the sea. The floating terminal of open frame construction is moored toward its front end with a rotatable mooring arrangement so that the terminal may weathervane in response to environmental forces. Marine thrusters are provided at the aft end of... Agent: Gary L. Bush Andrews Kurth LLP

20080274656 - Assembly of buoys for flexible submarine pipe: An assembly of support buoys for a flexible submarine pipeline which is designed for the transport of hydrocarbons. A plurality of buoys which can be installed gradually on at least one portion of the flexible submarine pipeline. A fixing device blocks translational movement of the buoys on the portion of... Agent: Ostrolenk Faber Gerb & Soffen