Ships inventions 02/09

20090050041 - Watercraft with a protective device against shaped/hollow charges: A watercraft includes a support structure and a protected space, object or the like within an outer shell of the support structure. To protect the space, object, or the like, for example, a sensitive subassembly in the watercraft, against threats posed by shaped charges, a protective device is positioned between... Agent: Flindt Intellectual Property Law Group, PLLC

20090050042 - Method of and apparatus for detecting and controlling bilge water in a sea vessel: An improved bilge water level monitor, alert and control system for boats and other vessels. The system provides a method of detecting excessive leakage of water into the bilge and in response to the excessive water in the bilge, triggering an alarm to notify the operator and others and energizes... Agent: Williams G. Sykes

20090050043 - Drain plug and port assembly: A drain plug apparatus for draining a container that is particularly suited for transom drains in recreational boats is shown. The apparatus has a threaded drain plug that couples with a flanged tubular drain port with upper and lower sets of threads separated by a section without threads and at... Agent: John P. O'banion O'banion & Ritchey LLP

20090050044 - Steerable paravane system for towed seismic streamer arrays: A paravane for a seismic acquisition system includes a float, a frame suspended from the float, deflectors affixed to the frame, and means for coupling a tow rope to a lead-in functionally extending between a forward end and an aft end of the frame. The paravane includes means for selectively... Agent: E. Eugene Thigpen Petroleum Geo-services, Inc.

20090050045 - Manual gangway for a boat: A manual gangway (1) for a boat (S) comprises a proximal gangway element (2) and a distal gangway element (3) which define a passage surface (P) for the transit of persons. The proximal gangway element (2) is provided at a proximal end (4b) with a connection device (22, 24) which... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090050046 - Davit assembly and a method for moving a boat: An onboard davit assembly for launching a boat from a ship is disclosed. In at least one embodiment, the assembly includes two spaced apart davits, each davit including a substantially horizontal boom, a hoist cable extending downwards from a suspension frame on the boom and including at least one fixation... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090044738 - Marine thrust wings: A wingsail assembly comprises a main symmetrical aerofoil which is freely rotatable about an upright axis and a control vane which is settable about an upright axis spaced from the axis of the main aerofoil to cause the main aerofoil to adopt an angle of attack to the direction of... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20090044740 - Modular floating watercraft port assembly: A floating watercraft port system is provided which allows for a designer to develop a port assembly of a desired configuration. The system comprises an entry member, an extension member and a bulkhead. The entry member comprises a cradle having an entrance section; and the extension member has a cradle... Agent: Polster, Lieder, Woodruff & Lucchesi

20090044739 - Rollers for use with watercraft ports and lifts: A roller for a floating watercraft port or lift is generally circular in radial cross-section and defines a diameter which decreasing from an axial center of the rollers to opposite ends of the rollers; such that the rollers are variable diameter rollers. In a variation, the rollers include circumferential grooves... Agent: Polster, Lieder, Woodruff & Lucchesi

20090044741 - Stepped boat hull with flat pad portions: The boat hull includes a bow, a stern and a bottom surface which extends from the bow to the stern. The hull includes a bottom surface with a deep-V shaped portion extending from the bow to a hull point which is aft of the mid-point of the bottom surface, approximately... Agent: Jensen + Puntigam, P.s.

20090044742 - Buoyancy-based, underwater propulsion system and method: An apparatus for underwater propulsion. The apparatus may include a hydrofoil, a buoyancy compensator connected to the hydrofoil, a tank containing air, and a controller regulating the passage of air from the tank into the buoyancy compensator. The controller may also regulate the escape of air from the buoyancy compensator.... Agent: Pate Pierce & Baird

20090044743 - Leak proof self securing container from single sheet: A generally leak proof open top self securing container for a human user and or their objects forms either a water craft or small toy boat or floating tackle tray; and pending a final size and or material which the no-parts container is formed of. The container comprises end walls... Agent: Terry Lee Wagenknecht

20090038523 - Small-sized high-speed tow-seat hydrocycle: The invention relates to shipbuilding and is directed at improving nautical properties of a device by increasing the stability thereof at rough maneuvers and by the possibility of hard dynamic breaking produced by using a reverse mode. The small-sized high-speed two-seat hydrocycle comprises a body, a water-jet propeller, a reversing-steering... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20090038532 - Ship and associated methods of formation with vessels connectable between decks and hulls: A ship and associated methods of operation. In an example embodiment, a method of operating a ship includes providing multiple vessels each having a first deck attached to two spaced-apart hull sections. The deck and hull sections define a cavity when the vessel is afloat. A plurality of like coupling... Agent: Ferdinand M. Romano, Esquire Beusse Wolter Sanks Mora & Maire, P.A.

20090038531 - Ship and associated methods of formation with vessels having connectable hulls: A ship and associated methods of formation with vessels having connectable hulls. In an example embodiment, a method of operating a ship includes providing a plurality of vessels over water, each comprising at least two spaced-apart hull sections defining a cavity when the vessel is afloat. Each hull section on... Agent: Beusse Wolter Sanks Mora & Maire, P. A.

20090038524 - Plasticized and assembleable cover such as for use with waterway constructed transport barges: A cover for use with an elongated opening associated with a transportable barge. The cover includes a number of inter-engageable cover sections, each exhibiting a lightweight plasticized construction and extending in both widthwise and lengthwise fashion relative to an upper lip edge defining an open perimeter of the barge. Each... Agent: Gifford, Krass, Sprinkle,anderson & Citkowski, P.c

20090038525 - Torpedo pile with enhanced clamping strength for anchoring floating structures and method of installation: A Torpedo Pile (100) is described for the anchoring of floating structures used for drilling and production wells for oil and gas, the pile (100) comprising a tapering body (1) provided with fins (20) and a point (30) for embedding in the seabed, its upper end being provided with at... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090038526 - Watercraft seat: A seat for a watercraft having a hull with a hull bottom having a first contoured shape. The seat includes a base having a second contoured shape that is operable to be slidably engaged with the first contoured shape of the hull bottom. The seat is operable to slide in... Agent: Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, PLLC

20090038527 - Dispositif de modification de la carene d'un corps flottant et vehicule amphibie comportant un tel dispositif: A device for modifying a hull of a floating body of a floating vehicle or floating bridge, having a base floating body, with an upper surface forming a principal rolling path, and first and second lateral surfaces. On each side of the base floating body, a first movable wall which... Agent: Leydig Voit & Mayer, Ltd

20090038528 - Cover for a boat: Frame for carrying a cover for a boat. The frame consists of a number of longitudinal beams which are hingeably coupled to one another to follow the shape of the boat. Transverse beam structures extend between opposing longitudinal beams and each transverse beam structure consists of a number of transverse... Agent: Young & Thompson

20090038529 - System and method for selectively securing articles to a hull of a watercraft: A watercraft includes a hull having a sidewall, and a cavity formed in the sidewall. The cavity includes an open end. An anchor includes an insertion portion configured to be removably inserted into the cavity through the open end. The anchor further includes a movable retention element that removably retains... Agent: Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, PLLC

20090038530 - Watercraft drogue system: A watercraft drogue system including a line deployable in the water to be intercepted by the lower unit of the watercraft's engine, at least a first drogue on one end of the line, a length of stretchable line adjacent the drogue, and at least a first length of slack line... Agent: Iandiorio Teska & Coleman

20090031937 - Intake: A water intake device is disclosed for mounting on a boat hull so that at least a peripheral portion water-side face thereof is substantially flush with an exterior surface of the boat hull. The water intake device includes a plate or screen having the water-side face and having a plurality... Agent: Seyfarth Shaw LLP

20090031938 - Motorwell throughhull: A motorwell throughhull is disclosed having a central portion for threadably receiving end caps or securements thereon. The central portion is sizable, such as by being formed of a material that is easily cut such as plastic. The end caps may be formed of metal to provide a desirable aesthetic... Agent: Seyfarth Shaw LLP

20090031939 - Pontoon boat having improved buoyancy: A pontoon boat is shown which includes a frame, and a plurality of pontoons attached to the frame. The plurality of pontoons comprises two outer pontoons of substantially cylindrical configuration and a center pontoon comprising a substantially curvilinear configuration, wherein a height of the center pontoon is substantially equal to... Agent: Baker & Daniels LLP

20090031940 - Underwater vehicle with sonar array: An underwater vehicle including an axi-symmetric framing system rotatable about a centerline to define a shell of revolution having a uniformly-convex outer boundary. A narrow-beam sonar array is mounted on the axi-symmetric framing system, and includes a multitude of simultaneously-fireable and/or asynchronously-fireable transducers distributed substantially evenly over a 4π-steradian viewing... Agent: Gunn & Lee, P.C.

20090031941 - Inflatable mirage kayak: An air inflatable watercraft having a bow and stern and having a central airtight compartment and two side airtight compartments running essentially the length of the watercraft, upon inflation the central compartment forms the bottom, stern and bow, and the two side compartments at least partially extend above the bottom... Agent: Joseph E. Mueth Joseph E. Mueth Law Corporation

20090031942 - Retractable boat top with arched canopy: A retractable boat top device is disclosed having an arched canopy assembly operatively deployed in mounted attachment upon a conventional radar arch or like elevated structure on the deck of a boat. The arched canopy assembly includes a stationery roof section formed having a curved planar surface transversely mounted within... Agent: Armand M. Vozzo, Jr.