Ships inventions 06/08

20080149014 - Foreship arrangement for a vessel of the displacement type: A foreship arrangement for a vessel of the displacement type, which foreship consists of the part of the ship in front of the vessel's midship mark (2) and which vessel has a transversely symmetrical hull form about its centre line (CL) and a substantially conventional bow form below its design... Agent: Rodman Rodman

20080149015 - Autostabilizer device for boat hull: An apparatus or integrated hull design to stabilize boats with V-shaped hulls. This invention includes a cavity affixed to the inside of the hull confirming to the shape of the inside of the hull. The hull has a step toward the rear of the hull to transition from the V-shape... Agent: Collen Ip

20080149016 - Submersible vessels: A submarine has a pressure hull (20) which includes a number of adjoining transparent viewing sections (21 and 22) in the shape of truncated spheres. The sections (21 and 22) are clamped to a body section (23, 24) by a cage (40) and tension rods (44) which pass slidably through... Agent: Quarles & Brady LLP

20080149017 - Guest positioning assembly: At least one actuator for actuating a guest lap bar locking assembly for releasably positioning a lap bar includes a rotatable actuator hub, a telegraph rod interconnected with the rotatable actuator hub, an operator arm also extending from the actuator hub and a toggle latching assembly interconnected with the actuator... Agent: General Electric Co. Global Patent Operation

20080141916 - Small vessel capable of high tow force: A small watercraft with watertight hull and an area at the rear in close proximity to the waterline that provides a means to mount payloads. Engines powering propellers are installed forward of the payload area and are covered by a water-tight deck with openings for intake air. Ancillary systems to... Agent: International Business Machines Corp. Intellectual Property Law

20080141917 - Emergency buoyancy system: A system is disclosed for providing emergency buoyancy to a vessel in response to a flooding condition in one or more vessel compartments cause by external explosion, collision or projectile damage. The system may comprise one or more flexible inflatable bags disposed on an upper inboard bulkhead of one or... Agent: Duane Morris LLP

20080141918 - Trailerable sailboat with mast raising method: Important design features and methods of launching a trailerable sailboat are described. The trailerable sailboat is designed to allow transportation on overland highways and to provide a simplified method of raising the mast without the need for a crane.... Agent: Loen Patent Services

20080141919 - Portable mooring system: A whip-style boat mooring apparatus, removably attachable to a standard dock cleat. The apparatus may include a second cleat, such that the apparatus provides both whip-style and standard cleat mooring from a single dock point. In one embodiment, the apparatus includes a clam-shell type housing, with a profile substantially resembling... Agent: Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti Pc

20080141920 - Device for the extraction of a submerged rope used to moor a boat: The invention relates to a device for the extraction of a submerged rope used to moor a boat. The inventive device comprises a rigid bar (19) having the following elements joined thereto, namely: a rope (18), the lower end of which is solidly connected to a mooring post (21); a... Agent: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.l.p.

20080141921 - Reciprocating devices: The disclosure relates to fluid working devices including reciprocating internal combustion engines, compressors and pumps. A number of arrangements for pistons and cylinders of unconventional configuration are described, mostly intended for use in reciprocating internal combustion IC engines operating without cooling. Included are toroidal combustion or working chambers, some with... Agent: Mitja Hinderks

20080141922 - Folding torpedo anchor for marine moorings: The present invention comprises a deepwater anchor that combines the high holding capacity of a plate anchor with the simple installation procedures associated with torpedo anchors. The complex embedding procedure typical for plate anchors is avoided. Instead, the anchor is installed by allowing it to free-fall through the water and... Agent: Raymond R. Ferrera

20080141923 - Propulsion and steering mechanism for an underwater vehicle: A propulsion system is provided for an underwater vehicle such as a Remote Operated Vehicle (ROV). Two propellers are independently driven by motors, while the orientation of the propellers is simultaneously controlled by a third motor. A means is provided for reprogramming the control electronics that can be disabled when... Agent: Maxey Law Offices, Pllc

20080141924 - Water sports boat with retractable speakers: A wake boarding or other water sports power boat having retractable rear facing speakers for transmitting an audio signal to a water sports participant towed behind the boat. The power boat has storage compartments on the sides of the boat at the rear of the cockpit. The storage compartments have... Agent: Varnum, Riddering, Schmidt & Howlett LLP

20080141925 - Coxswain support: An apparatus providing a means for supporting a coxswain in a boat comprised of pair of adjustable or ratcheted pulleys with hooks for securing to a cross brace or similar structure in a boat together with a pair of retaining lines with a support strap medially placed between the retaining... Agent: Carl D. Crowell

20080141926 - Cover system for a boat: A cover system for a boat that can be articulated between a lowered covering position, to provide some level of protection to the interior of the boat when the boat is not in use, and one or more other positions. The one or more other positions may include, for example,... Agent: Crompton, Seager & Tufte, Llc

20080134951 - Rudder post for rudders for water vehicles: The rudder post (40) for rudders for water vehicles has end sections (41, 42) made of a metallic material, in particular of wrought iron, and a mid post section (45) made of a nonmetallic material connected with the end sections so that the rudder post has a relatively low weight... Agent: Friedrich Kueffner

20080134952 - Underwater vehicles: An underwater vehicle comprising, a housing, an internal guidewire dispenser (20) for storing and deploying a guidewire (30), and a splice cavity (40) defining a storage space (42), for carrying and deploying a splice between the internal guidewire and an external guidewire and excess guidewire resulting from splicing the internal... Agent: Jacobson Holman Pllc

20080134953 - Stabilizing openings for corrugated plastic water craft floor: A plastic substrate comprises two or more approximately planar walls (47) conjoined by elongate paralleling ribs (45) to define a plurality of elongate channels (44) to form a combination floor (39) and hull (38) of a corrugated plastic water craft. An exterior surface of the hull includes a plurality of... Agent: Terry Lee Wagenkecht

20080127880 - Fastening of insulating blocks for a liquefied gas transport tank by adhesive bonding using wavy beads of adhesive: Method of adhesively bonding second insulating blocks to a ship's inner hull using beads of mastic for the production of a sealed, thermally insulating tank for the transportation of liquefied gases, the tank having two successive sealing barriers alternated with two insulating barriers of first and second insulating blocks produced... Agent: Young & Thompson

20080127872 - Hinge mechanism: A hinge mechanism comprises first and second chock plates and an adjustable shaft. Each of the chock plates includes an aperture in the form of a figure of eight, the first and second circular portions of which are similar and are connected by a neck portion of a width less... Agent: Young & Basile, P.c.

20080127873 - Triangular boat sail: A sail for a boat, and specifically a triangular sail (1). It comprises three extreme comers, head (10), clew (11) and tack (12), and three edges, a luff edge (15) linking the head point (10) to the tack point (12), a foot edge (13) linking the tack point to the... Agent: The Weintraub Group, P.L.C

20080127874 - Hybrid boat hull: A hybrid boat hull. In a first embodiment, the hybrid boat hull comprises a first and second outer elongated hulls each curved inwards to respectively define first and second keel fins which provide buoyancy and act as inclined hydrofoils when the hybrid hull is run at high speed. In a... Agent: Wood And Eisenberg, Pllc

20080127875 - Self propelled cleaning device for marine seismic streamers: A cleaning device for a seismic streamer includes a housing placeable the exterior of the streamer. A turbine is associated with the housing and is configured to be rotationally driven by movement of the streamer through a body of water. A drive element is associated with the housing and is... Agent: E. Eugene Thigpen Petroleum Geo-services, Inc.

20080127876 - Device for distroying subsea or floating objects: A device for destroying subsea objects comprising a first part 2 provided with propulsion means, a second part 4 which can pivot relative to the first part on an axis, so that the device can approach a subsea object from different directions, and a fairing 3 protecting the second part... Agent: Raymond Y Chan

20080127877 - Pre-positioning deployment system: A system is disclosed for pre-positioning a canister assembly at an undersea location. A transporter deploys to and releases the assembly proximate to the desired location. Once the assembly has fallen a safe distance after release, spring bands of the assembly are released by the action of lanyards of the... Agent: Naval Undersea Warfare Center Division Newport

20080127878 - General purpose submarine having high speed surface capability: The present invention provides a submarine that is capable of surface operation with its passenger compartment completely or predominately above the waterline. The vessel is capable of high-speed, long-range surface navigation and seakeeping.... Agent: Saliwanchik Lloyd & Saliwanchik A Professional Association

20080127879 - Cloth cover for hatch lid of boat: A cover for a hatch lid or similar structure of a boat provides a secure, custom fit but is easily replaceable and maintainable. The cover includes a sheet of material having a periphery sized approximately to fit over a hatch lid of a boat and a securing feature including an... Agent: Stockwell & Smedley, Psc