Ships inventions 09/07

20070221111 - Light sail craft: A light sail craft lacking rudder and steered by the movement and positioning of at least two sails, a hull being sufficiently stable to prevent capsizing, each sail being mounted on a pivoting mast. Each mast is located along the longitudinal axis of the craft.... Agent: Young & Thompson

20070221112 - Solution mining to refloat and dispose of an offshore floating structure: An improved fixed ballast for a floating offshore structure. The material used for the ballast may be a dense liquid that is pumped into the fixed ballast tank during ballasting and forced out of the tank during deballasting. The material may also be a soluble material that is ground up... Agent: J. Ray Mcdermott, S.a. Patent Department

20070221113 - Combined outboard motor support and trim plate: An adjustable trim plate can be incorporated on the transom bracket of an outboard motor jack plate having right and left transom bracket members and right and left motor bracket members, by eliminating or modifying a lower cross-member of the motor bracket to provide clearance for an actuator connected to... Agent: Howson And Howson

20070221114 - Pontoon boat top: A pontoon boat top has a support structure with a shell attached thereto. The shell may comprise a plurality of panels. The support structure may include a plurality of support members. The pontoon boat cover is attachable to a pontoon boat and may be mounted to the pontoon boat and... Agent: Mcafee & Taft Tenth Floor, Two Leadership Square

20070215027 - Two piece view port and light housing with swivel light: The present invention is a view port suitable for installation under the water line of a vessel wherein the view port comprises a flange made from a corrosion resistant material and a body made from a heat resistant material. An alternative embodiment of the invention is an underwater light in... Agent: Lott & Friedland, P.A.

20070215028 - Fairing for reducing watercurrent-induced stresses on a marine riser: The invention relates to a rotatable fairing (1) for a marine riser (2) or other slender marine structure. The fairing (1) is arranged on the riser for reducing watercurrent-induced stresses on said riser (2), said fairing (1) having a tail portion (3) for trailing generally in the downstream direction behind... Agent: Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck, P.C.

20070215029 - Entrapment tunnel monohull optimized for waterjet and high payload: An entrapment tunnel watercraft vessel having three hulls consists of a main hull and two amas arranged outboard of the main hull with the keels of the three hulls being parallel. The main hull is a narrow, vee hull with variable, rearwardly decreasing deadrise. The amas have very fine bows... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20070215030 - Submarine: A submarine is equipped with an extending apparatus on whose free end a container (4) resistant to underwater pressure is arranged, in which an essentially recoil-free gun (5) lies. The container (4) in the submerged condition of the submarine may be brought to the water surface (15) by way of... Agent: Mcglew & Tuttle, PC

20070215031 - Marine windshield and cockpit cover attachment system: A marine windshield and cockpit cover attachment system, utilizing a slot longitudinally extending along an elongated windshield frame, and where the windshield frame extends longitudinally around the edge of a windshield glass, where a series of plastic cover snap anchors are mounted within the slot. With the slot having inward... Agent: Pacific Coast Marine Windshields Ltd.

20070209570 - Strakes: An improved strake for structures that are subject to vortex induced vibrations and motions due to fluid flow around the structure. One embodiment includes a streamliner on the edge of the strake. The streamliner may be added to existing strakes or may be formed at the same time as the... Agent: J. Ray Mcdermott, S.a. Patent Department

20070209565 - Apparatus for providing resistance to cargo spills: A non-permeable bladder is used for transporting oil within a steel compartment onboard an oil tanker. The bladder is contained within a meso-skeleton suspended within the individual metal tank which causes any force which would otherwise puncture the bladder, to be spread evenly over the exterior of the bladder and... Agent: Robert W. Strozier

20070209566 - Two piece view port and light housing with integrated ballast and high intensity disharge lamp: The present invention is a view port suitable for installation under the water line of a vessel wherein the view port comprises a flange made from a corrosion resistant material and a body made from a heat resistant material. An alternative embodiment of the invention is an underwater light in... Agent: Lott & Friedland, P.A.

20070209567 - Boat accessory rack: A boat accessory rack has a frame typically including at least two members, one of which is movable. An actuation device such as a manually operated actuator, a hydraulically operated actuator or a pneumatically operated actuator applies an actuation force to the movable member thereby moving the movable member from... Agent: Luedeka, Neely & Graham

20070209568 - Boat and method for manufacturing using resin transfer molding: One aspect of the present invention relates to a method for making a boat. The boat includes a port side positioned opposite from a starboard side. The boat also includes a floor and stingers supports positioned within the hull. The method includes providing a insert having two spaced-apart elongated portions... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20070209569 - Rigid inflatable boat with easy lifesaving: A rigid inflatable boat adapted for ease of lifesaving includes an arc-shaped front tube fixedly installed at a front side of a hull and a rear tube slidably installed at a rear side of the hull. A respective sliding rail having a guiding member disposed therein extends longitudinally on an... Agent: Jordan And Hamburg LLP

20070204784 - Portable deck: A portable deck includes a plurality of legs that have a slot on each side face. An adjustable foot is removably attached to each leg to account for uneven ground surfaces on which the portable deck may be place. At least two braces and at least two rails are generally... Agent: Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld L.L.P.

20070204785 - Ballast extension-submersion truss stable platform: To overcome high construction and deployment/installation costs of spar platforms that are typically employed in deep waters for oil and gas production, Ballast Extension-Submersion Truss Stable Platform (BEST Stable Platform) capitalizes on a minimized wave-zone buoyancy design to control platform water-plane area. With a truss connected ballast that could be... Agent: Andrew W. Chow

20070204786 - Fish handling and bait rigging island in power boats: A fish handling and bait rigging island is adapted to be mounted on a deck in a cockpit of a power boat. The island includes a base, sides extending upwardly from the base, and a top. The sides of the island are spaced away from sides of the cockpit sufficiently... Agent: Varnum, Riddering, Schmidt & Howlett LLP