Ships inventions 07/09

20090188416 - Fin stabilizer to reduce roll for boats in turns method and apparatus: The disclosure relates to a fin stabilization system adapted to minimize roll about the longitudinal axis of the boat during sharp cornering at very high speeds. In one form, equipment such as a machine gun is mounted to the bow of the boat and targets are adapted to be engaged... Agent: Hughes Law Firm, PLLC

20090188417 - Anchor reeling: A new use for a cranked reel employing a clutch bearing and a drag, which drag is controllably released by reverse rotation of the crank. The new use is to raise or lower an anchor using a cranked reel employing a clutch bearing and a drag, which drag is controllably... Agent: Timothy S. Stevens, Patent Attorney

20090188418 - Marine dockline holder: The marine dockline holder provides an easy place to leave the docklines in an elevated position when the boat leaves the dock, enabling the lines to be easily retrieved and attached to the boat upon its return to the dock. The marine dockline holder has a line hook attached to... Agent: Kenneth R. Rice

20090188419 - Boat hull with air augmented center v-hull and aerated sponsons: Boat hull having aerated longitudinal hydrosponsons with air injection into tunnels and distribution to generate bubbles across central running surfaces.... Agent: David L Garrison

20090188420 - Anchor and rope holder-bag for boats: A combined holder-bag for small boats, to storage and holds the anchor, rope and others light items like trash that could fly away with the wind causing water pollution. The invention particularly provides a holder-bag in a safe and convenient place at the boat's bow rail or the boat's bow... Agent: Tomas Crespo Sr.

20090188421 - Adjustable boat leaning post mounting system: The present invention relates to an adjustable mounting system for a leaning post for a boat having a pair of side-by-side seat posts. The leaning post is provided with a pair of brackets to which hollow cylindrical support posts can be adjustably mounted. The spacing between the support posts can... Agent: Law Office Of Duncan Palmatier

20090188422 - Hydraulic operated locking and release actuator for use with fishing outriggers: An outrigger securing assembly for use on a fishing vessel. The securing assembling includes an automatic locking member that is secured to a structural member of the vessel and is capable of latching or releasing a latch member that is secured to an outrigger mast. The automatic locking member is... Agent: Mchale & Slavin, P.A.

20090183664 - Portable, single-person pontoon boat, kit and method: The portable, single-person pontoon boat includes a hull having a deck and at least one sidewall. The hull defines an open interior region. At least one laterally extending, elongated frame member having opposed first and second hollow ends is fixed to the bottom of the hull. First and second pontoon... Agent: Litman Law Offices, Ltd.

20090183665 - Control handle for a vessel and a vessel including such a control handle: A control handle for a vessel, the control handle having a handle bar, two handles, at least one throttle control arranged in connection with one or both handles, and an additional control. A vessel having a control handle for a vessel with a handle bar, two handles, at least one... Agent: Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney PC

20090183666 - Auxiliary float of floating structure and method for remodeling floating structure: The auxiliary float (11) comprises two floats (12) coupled, respectively, to lower portions of two lower hulls (1) constituting a floating structure, two main coupling members (13) for coupling the floats (12) to each other, and four sub-coupling members (14) for coupling the main coupling member (13) and the float... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20090183667 - Mooring of multiple arrays of buoy-like wecs: For reducing the number of anchors required for mooring a plurality of WECs in a body of water, the WECs are arrayed in two patterns enabling the sharing of anchors among the WECs. One pattern comprises pluralities of WECs disposed in polygonal shaped cells with an anchor disposed beneath each... Agent: Henry I. Schanzer, Esq

20090183668 - Personal support system for nautical vessels: A personal support system for persons in the cockpit of a nautical vessel is disclosed. The system includes a personal support device that releasably engages a nautical winch located near the cockpit to provide support or securing for the back or other parts of the body of a person seated,... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20090178602 - Variable planing inflatable hull system: Variable planing inflatable hull system having a planing surface on inflatable hulls at the side and disposable central hull. The central hull is typically a rigid hull, with the inflatable hulls providing low wetted area planing surfaces for speed, shock absorbing and efficiency of the vessels. Various embodiments are disclosed.... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20090178603 - Buoyancy control systems and methods: A buoyancy control system for a submersible object submerged in an ambient fluid, comprising a piston housing, a piston member, a pump, control fluid, and working fluid. The piston housing is supported by the submersible object. The piston member defines a piston portion and a shaft portion. The piston member... Agent: Schacht Law Office, Inc.

20090178604 - Hinged radar arch for marine vessels: An arch assembly 10 for pivotably mounting on a boat 12, its method of manufacture, and deployment in use. The assembly 10 has an arch 14 with a generally inverted U-shaped configuration, a forward edge region 16 and an aft edge region 18, a laterally extending top portion 20 generally... Agent: Brooks Kushman P.C.

20090178605 - 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

20090173263 - Apparatus for control of pivoting wing-type sail: A steerable wing-type sail system for a wind powered craft. The system includes first and second secondary airfoils and that are spaced outwardly to the sides of the plane of the main wing, and that are positioned rearwardly of the trailing edge of the wing. The secondary airfoils are selectively... Agent: Todd N. Hathaway

20090173264 - Storable, sickle-shaped sailboat mast: A sailboat mast including a straight lower portion and a curved upper portion. The curved upper portion has an aerodynamically efficient cross section designed to reduce drag. The mast assembly is free to rotate with respect to the boat's hull in order to position the mast in line with the... Agent: J. Wiley Horton, Esquire Pennington, Moore, Wilkinson, Bell & Dunbar, P.A.

20090173265 - Hand held auxiliary sail: A hand held, light weight, multi-purpose, extendable and collapsible omni-wind sail assembly for providing wind propulsion for vehicles such as kayaks, surfboards, small boats, iceboats, land vehicles, and the like. The assembly includes a flexible wind responsive sail surface having a transparent portion for user viewing therethrough, the sail surface... Agent: Edward E. Roberts

20090173266 - Method of producing reinforced, formed fabrics: The invention relates to a method of producing reinforced, formed fabrics, consisting in producing a continuous fabric alternated with a membrane (34) containing embedded reinforcing elements, which is prepared in overlapping portions on a conveyor belt (29) which passes over a preparation table (25). The membrane (34) and the reinforcing... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20090173267 - Method of producing reinforced, formed fabrics: The invention relates to a method of producing reinforced, formed fabrics, consisting in producing a continuous fabric alternated with a membrane (34) containing embedded reinforcing elements, which is prepared in overlapping portions on a conveyor belt (29) which passes over a preparation table (25). The membrane (34) and the reinforcing... Agent: Foley & Lardner LLP

20090173268 - Method and apparatus for controlling a water-jet driven marine vessel: A method for controlling a marine vessel having a first steering nozzle, a reversing deflector and at least one of a bow thruster and a second steering nozzle is disclosed. The method comprises any of the acts of inducing a net transverse thrust to the marine vessel in response to... Agent: John N. Anastasi Lowrie, Lando & Anastasi, LLP

20090173269 - Floating platform method and apparatus: A floating platform is provided. The floating platform includes a top surface (14), a plurality of buoyancy members (12) interconnected to the top surface and extending downwardly into a body of water, a bottom plate (16) and a plurality of interstitial volumes (24) that are sealed at a bottom end... Agent: Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, P.C. Pacwest Center, Suite 1900

20090173270 - Underwater assemblies with flooded actuators and methods for using same: An underwater assembly includes: a hull having an internal cavity that is in fluid communication with the external environment; an inductive actuator mounted within the cavity of the hull; a current source mounted in the hull and electrically connected to the actuator; and a movable member connected with the actuator... Agent: Myers Bigel Sibley & Sajovec

20090165689 - Light-weight, soft wing-sail for wind-propelled vehicle: A light-weight soft wing-sail for a wind-propelled vehicle includes a free standing rotating mast to be mounted in a vertical position on the vehicle and, three fully battened sail panels that together define the skin of the wing sail. Spreaders extend transversely of the mast and impart to them a... Agent: Martin D. Moynihan D/b/a Prtsi, Inc.

20090165690 - Sports board: A sports apparatus configured to support a rider upon the water surface is disclosed and may comprise either a compartment in the top surface configured to accept personal articles and a watertight cover to prevent damage and loss of personal articles or a propulsion source. The sports apparatus can have... Agent: Christopher J. Walworth

20090165697 - Flex controlled subassembly and watercraft: A subassembly for watercraft comprised of a set of nod points connected between the set or subsets by elements with flexural and or torsional properties that can be chosen to customize the flex response of the watercraft and resultant watercraft comprising a subassembly or subassemblies structurally engineered and manufactured to... Agent: J. Michael Caldwell

20090165691 - Method for controlling the deformation of a surface of a sail of a sailing boat during a direction change manoeuvre: A method for controlling the deformation of a surface of a sail of a sailing boat during a direction change manoeuvre, includes arranging at least one inflatable batten into a respective seat formed on a side surface of the sail, the at least one batten being inflated at a predetermined... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20090165692 - Apparatus and method to optimize sailing efficiency: This invention provides improvements in the efficiency of a sailing vessel through the use of flaps, hydrofoils, or members on the keel of a sailing vessel. One or more are positioned at the top, or root of the keel of the vessel, which primarily generate a force in the windward... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20090165693 - Hull structure: A hull structure has a chine serving as a boundary between a broadside and a bottom of a hull. The hull has a configuration in which the hull has a maximum depth in a vicinity of a central position of the hull, the chine is provided so that its level... Agent: Rader Fishman & Grauer PLLC

20090165694 - Trim tabs: A trim tab for mounting the transom of a boat has an upper surface and an undulating bottom surface with down-turned flaps on opposite sides of the tab. The trim tab is formed of a molded composite material. The top surface includes a hinge platform at its forward end and... Agent: Reinhart Boerner Van Deuren P.C.

20090165695 - Collapsible kayak: A folding kayak that comprises a hull having a first rigid part with a top edge and a second rigid part with a top edge, an inflatable sponson disposed along the top edges of the first rigid part and the second rigid part, and a textile envelope having an outer... Agent: Jones Day

20090165696 - Assembly for retrofitting watercraft and method: An assembly for retrofitting the hull of a watercraft is presented, which includes an elongated panel which defines a longitudinal channel and at least one console. The console defines at least one chamber extending through the panel and an upper chamber opening and a lower chamber opening. The panel is... Agent: Warner J Delaune Jr Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz