Buoy for storing line connected to underwater object
U.S. Patent US5299962 | Filed: 03/11/1993 | Issued: 04/05/1994
A buoy is provided for storing a line connected to an underwater object, having a hollow casing formed of resilient plastics material and having two side portions each with bearings. A reel for car...
Assignee(s): SAULNIER KENNETH + 1 | Inventor(s): Kenneth Saulnier + 1 | Agent(s): Beveridge, DeGrandi, Weilacher & Young | Examiner(s): Andres Kashnikow |
Inflatable flag buoy workable in both the daytime and the night
U.S. Patent US6162106 | Filed: 04/30/1999 | Issued: 12/19/2000
An inflatable flag buoy for divers including a buoyant seat and a flag body in the form of two air chambers separated by a transparent interface. The buoyant seat is further divided into an upper a...
Inventor(s): Steve S. Shieh | Agent(s): Dougherty & Troxell | Examiner(s): Morano; S. Joseph |
Safety stop anchor
U.S. Patent US5839931 | Filed: 04/24/1998 | Issued: 11/24/1998
Disclosed is a safety stop anchor including a buoy distantly connected to a diver via a fixing rope. Before the diver returns to the surface, the buoy helps the diver to easily and relaxedly stay a...
Inventor(s): Steve S. Shieh | Agent(s): Bacon & Thomas | Examiner(s): Stephen Avila |
Automatic inflation system
U.S. Patent US4482333 | Filed: 04/30/1982 | Issued: 11/13/1984
An automatic inflation system for use as an emergency locating system which is activated by the severance of an initiator wire which in turn begins the operation of a transmitter and a timer. Follo...
Assignee(s): Geri Engineering, Inc. | Inventor(s): Don W. Geri + 1 | Agent(s): Thomas E. Schatzel | Examiner(s): Trygve M. Blix |
Flotation bag assembly
U.S. Patent US4675686 | Filed: 02/20/1986 | Issued: 06/23/1987
An apparatus for the stable support of a structure, such as an antenna, in a fluid medium, such as the ocean. A flotation bag supporting an antenna is stabilized by the following features, which ca...
Assignee(s): Hazeltine Corporation | Inventor(s): Tyler C. Robinson + 3 | Agent(s): Onders; E. A. | Examiner(s): Eli Lieberman |
Inflatable chemical foam injected buoy
U.S. Patent US6254445 | Filed: 06/12/2000 | Issued: 07/03/2001
A lightweight inflatable marker buoy system is resistant to deflation and sinking if punctured. This device will most likely be used by a diver while underwater, but could be air delivered or dropp...
Assignee(s): The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy | Inventor(s): Anthony D. Jones | Agent(s): Harvey A. Gilbert + 1 | Examiner(s): Stephen Avila |
Air-launched buoy
U.S. Patent US5795203 | Filed: 04/18/1997 | Issued: 08/18/1998
The invention relates to air-launched buoys intended to be launched from a flying aircraft. It consists, in a buoy the body of which is small and has neither flaps nor inflation opening, in making ...
Assignee(s): Thomson-CSF | Inventor(s): Vito Suppa + 3 | Agent(s): Oblon, Spivak, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C. | Examiner(s): Stephen Avila |
Submerged riser tensioner
U.S. Patent US6257337 | Filed: 03/17/1998 | Issued: 07/10/2001
A drilling unit comprises a floating drilling rig, a subsea wellhead, and a riser connecting the subsea drilling rig with the subsea wellhead. A floatation collar encircles the riser so as to reduc...
Inventor(s): Granville Louis Wells | Agent(s): John R. Casperson | Examiner(s): David Bagnell |
Water actuated inflatable float device
U.S. Patent US4578041 | Filed: 08/20/1984 | Issued: 03/25/1986
A flotation device including an inflatable member, a compressed gas source including a container therefor with a port therein, a seal normally sealing the port, a body member having a bore extendin...
Assignee(s): Trip-Saver Inc. | Inventor(s): Heitkamp, III; Lawrence F. + 1 | Agent(s): Garrett and Roberts Haverstock | Examiner(s): Sherman D. Basinger |
Flotation device
U.S. Patent US4406631 | Filed: 10/05/1981 | Issued: 09/27/1983
An air launchable sonobuoy having two separate liquid chemicals which reactpon mixing to form an expanded, rigid foam flotation device. Upon deployment in the air, windflaps release a preloaded pla...
Assignee(s): The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Navy | Inventor(s): John R. Dale | Agent(s): Robert F. Beers | Examiner(s): Sherman Basinger |
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