Ships inventions 09/09

20090235856 - Offshore floating structure with motion dampers: A semi-submersible floating platform (10, 10A) for use in offshore applications has a semi-submersible hull structure (11) including support columns (12), a pontoon structure (13) adjoined to the lower ends thereof, and a deck structure (14) supported at an upper end of the columns for supporting the deck and equipment... Agent: Kenneth A. Roddy

20090235857 - Onboard boat lift structure and method: An onboard lift for a pontoon boat has four legs pivotally attached underneath a platform and extending between the outer pontoons. Each leg terminates in a slide foot. The pivot pin for each leg is canted, such as at 13° relative to horizontal. In a stowed position, the legs and... Agent: ShewchukIPServices

20090229504 - Steering unit for small watercraft: A steering unit for a small watercraft, which can positively prevent jolting of a steering shaft relative to a bearing section for allowing smooth rotation of the steering shaft, and makes for improving the installing characteristic of the steering shaft and a collar into the bearing section. A steering shaft... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090229505 - Battered column semi-submersible offshore platform: A semisubmersible platform includes a deck supported on the upper ends of support columns extending upwardly from a horizontally disposed pontoon-ring. The columns are battered inwardly and upwardly from the pontoon-ring to the deck. Mooring lines passing through fair leads on the outer faces of the base nodes anchor the... Agent: Nick A Nichols, Jr.

20090229506 - Device for reducing the power demand for the propulsion of a ship: A device for reducing the power demand for the propulsion of a ship, and for broad-built or non-broad-built not-very-fast ships of any type which is affixed to the hull at a short distance upstream of the propeller, comprises a fore-nozzle with fins or hydrofoils that are arranged within the fore-nozzle,... Agent: Friedrich Kueffner

20090229507 - 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

20090229508 - Bimini top: A retractable bimini top movable between stowed and deployed orientations includes a frame including a first bow and a second bow movable relative to the first bow. The retractable bimini top further includes a cover positioned over at least a portion of each of the first and second bows and... Agent: Michael Best & Friedrich LLP

20090229509 - Tool storage structure of saddle-ride type small boat: A tool storage structure of a saddle-ride type small boat capable of reducing the number of parts while suppressing noise generation. In a saddle-ride type small boat driven by an occupant who straddles the seat formed of a front seat and a rear seat on the boat body, a frame... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20090223428 - Anchoring system for watercraft vessels: An anchoring system for a watercraft vessel, the anchoring system including an anchor bracket configured to be mountable on the watercraft vessel; a sleeve attached to the anchor bracket, the sleeve having an aperture disposed longitudinally therethrough; a sliding tube inserted through the sleeve, the sliding tube being at least... Agent: Harness, Dickey & Pierce, P.L.C

20090223429 - Shallow water anchor system for fishing boats: A shallow water anchor system provides a single arm arrangement with a fixed end of the arm mounted to the transom of a boat and the distal end of the arm retaining a rod adapted to be buried into the bottom of a lake, estuary, or other shallow body of... Agent: Tim Cook

20090223430 - Shallow water anchor system for fishing boats: A shallow water anchor system provides an upper arm having a proximal end and a distal end, the proximal end of the upper arm hingedly attached to a hull of the boat whereby the upper arm is adapted to move between a raised position and a lowered position; a lower... Agent: Tim Cook

20090223431 - Bow lifting body with deadrise: A watercraft has a lifting body secured to its bow below the waterline; the lifting body has deadrise on either side of the bow.... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella Harper & Scinto

20090217851 - Rotor sail and ship with a rotor sail: A rotor sail is provided having a base (2) and a rotary cylinder (3) mounted on the base (2) in a manner permitting rotation about its longitudinal axis designed as the rotor axis (r), and a drive (5) for rotating the rotary cylinder (3). An enclosing outer surface (4) of... Agent: Panitch Schwarze Belisario & Nadel LLP

20090217852 - Method and apparatus for transporting and mounting offshore wind generators: A method and apparatus for transporting and mounting wind generators onto support structures is provided. More specifically, the present invention provides a method and apparatus for transporting a wind generator from an onshore location onto a water vessel. In addition, the present invention provides a method and apparatus for mounting... Agent: Patent Docket Administrator Lowenstein Sandler PC

20090217861 - Construction of fpdso vessel: A vessel with drilling and workover capability is constructed rapidly in a shipyard or dry dock by using an existing vessel that has most of the required hull. Bow and stern sections of the existing vessel are separated to leave them at opposite ends of a shipyard space, and a... Agent: Leon D. Rosen Freilich, Hornbaker & Rosen

20090217853 - Attachment of waterski tow bracket to towing vessel: A mounting of a ski line bracket includes the attachment of a ski line bracket (1) of the type whereby the ski line can roll along a circular tube by means of a pulley, wherein attachment of the bracket uses an attachment device of the outboard engine to the transom... Agent: Griffin & Szipl, PC

20090217854 - Hinge for floating dock assembly: In particular embodiments, a connection assembly for interconnecting two adjacent floats includes first and second hinge mounting members that are secured to respective floats, such as floating concrete dock sections, and a flexible hinge that is releasably connected at each end to the hinge mounting members so as to interconnect... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman, LLP

20090217855 - Pontoon-type floating structure: A pontoon-type floating structure comprising an upper deck that is to be maintained above water level and that is to receive and support a load by the load resting thereon; and a horizontal array of chambers disposed underneath the upper deck, with the chambers providing a first set of chambers... Agent: Volpe And Koenig, P.C.

20090217856 - Fixed structure platform on water: The invention relates to the fixed platform which enables to locate on the water any fixed structure such as the house, garden, road, airport, car park, children's park and holiday village in the seas, lakes and rivers. Our invention comprises the platform (7) where the floats (22) thereof capable of... Agent: Venable, Campillo, Logan & Meaney, P.C.

20090217857 - Surface skimming watercraft: A water craft including a hull having a main longitudinal axis defining a direction of travel of the craft, a plurality of discs mounted at respective opposed sides of the main longitudinal axis to and below the hull and in combination having sufficient buoyancy to support the hull above the... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20090217858 - Geostationary anchoring and riser arrangement on a ship: A geostationary anchoring and riser arrangement in a vessel comprises a rotating body (11), which is mounted in a vertical shaft (6) in the vessel (1) by axial and radial annular bearings (31, 32). Above the upper axial and radial bearing (31, 32) is mounted a dynamic primary seal (35),... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20090217859 - Towable underwater craft: A towable underwater craft includes a main body contoured to support the rider in the prone position, a contoured leading edge, left and right arm guards, left and right independently actuated hydrofoils and a tow rope. The majority of the craft is constructed from a foam core and a fiber-reinforced... Agent: Eric W. Healy

20090217860 - Window regulator of awning for cruiser: In an awning for a cruiser, the awning including a roof frame longitudinally curved and arranged to be inclined down ahead above an open cabin; a roof cover provided to be put on the roof frame; a transparent window panel that is provided to be inclined to be continuous to... Agent: Flynn Thiel Boutell & Tanis, P.C.