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4721414 Marine fenders  
A marine fender used for mitigating a berthing shock of a vessel is disclosed, which is mounted to a berthing wall and made from an elastomeric material. This marine fender comprises a main...
4719952 Surfboard horizontal control surface protection method and apparatus  
A reusable, low bulk, temporary shock absorbing cover for protecting the delicate tips and horizontal control edge surfaces of conventional surfboards and the like is disclosed. The cover comprises...
4686926 Boat mooring device  
A pair of identical rigid arms are each pivotably attached at one end to a pair of identical brackets, one bracket attached to a boat and the other bracket attached to a dock, and an elongated...
4686924 Fender or similar device for absorbing forces of impact  
A fender surrounding a mooring body and comprising a weight-loaded structure suspended by flexible connecting members from a higher location of the mooring body, which connecting members according...
4664053 Sheer line deck-edge fender for vessels  
A vertically elongated resilient fender for deployment between a floating vessel and a dock or an adjacent floating vessel, defined by a flat rear wall and a convexly arched front wall integrally...
4662791 Bumper assembly shock cell system  
An improved mechanism for cushioning shocks imparted to a stationary body from various sizes of vessels, including a resiliently retarded telescoping member having a first movement versus thrust...
4662790 Arrestor for large drifting objects  
An arrestor for reducing the velocity of moving icebergs and the like or large drifting objects relative to an off-shore fixed structure is disclosed. In use, the device extends outwardly from a...
4653420 Protective cover for boat hoist bumpers  
A protective cover for fragile boat bumpers includes two sheets of relatively thin rubber having a sheet of criss-crossing fibers therebetween, the two rubber sheets being fused to each other. The...
4653419 Hull Protecting fender apron  
A fender apron protects the surface finish of a boat hull from dirt and damage from the actions of a boat fender in use. The apron is constructed of a flexible, resilient transparent plastic sheet....
4650389 Mechanism and method for positioning a fender on a dock vertical wall  
A mechanism for positioning on a dock vertical wall a fender including spaced openings, the mechanism comprising a movable support, a first arm pivotally attached to the movable support, a first...
4650371 Device for absorbing the energy of floating bodies approaching the coast wall  
This invention describes a scheme for absorbing the energy of floating bodies such as ships approaching the coastal wall by providing the coastal wall with fenders made of spring materials along...
4641999 Means for protecting support structures or similar from shocks  
A fender for protecting support structures against shocks applied thereto, of an alongside fender type, comprising a rubber piece with appropriate profile adapted for absorbing the shocks and...
4641835 Cushion for a swing or the like and method for making same  
An elastic cushion formed of a elastic cushion tube and a supporting frame. The cushion tube is slit axially to create a pair of slit edges which are elastically expanded to create a cushion tube...
4627375 Boat mooring device  
A device to be used in pairs for mooring a boat alongside a dock, each device including an elongated cylinder preferably of polyvinyl chloride, a first piston for movement within the cylinder, a...
4627373 Construction for coupling deck to hull of small-sized marine craft  
A deck-hull coupling construction for a small-sized marine craft which has bumpers extending upwardly and downwardly from the coupling. The upwardly extending bumper is constituted by upwardly bent...
4607586 Preloaded compression absorber cell for boat bumpers  
A compression shock absorber for use on offshore oil platforms, for example, is used as part of an overall bumper system for receiving impact from marine vessels which are docking at the offshore...
4604962 Modular floating dock  
There is disclosed an interlocking assembly for floating dock units of quadrangular section, comprising eye lugs, outwardly projecting from the four corners of the floating units. The lugs are...
4601611 Marine fender  
A marine fender comprising a hollow tapered body of an elastic material, either small-diameter side or large-diameter side of which being a shock-receiving side and the other being a fastening side...
4586451 Surfboard protector  
Partial covers, made of flexible material such as rubber, are respectively attached to the nose, rails and tail of a surfboard so that the partial covers protect respectively the nose, rails and...
4584958 Boat bumper  
A bumper for protecting the hull of a boat comprising a plurality of one-piece bumper bodies of resilient deformable material positioned end-to-end. Each of these bodies has a curved portion with a...
4579344 Impact absorption pads for goals  
An impact-absorption pad for hockey goals or the like includes a tough, flexible sheath defining an elongated inner compartment substantially filled with a quantity of dry particulate material...
4570563 Grounding protective device for boats  
Grounding protective device for sailing vessels and similar boats provided with a fin keel to eliminate to the greatest possible extent the impact effect on a boat when the keel touches ground and...
4565147 Mutual and multi-restrained fixing fender  
An impact-resistant fender for protecting exposed surfaces such as the hulls of boats from damage when the boat is adjacent to a pier or another boat, which fender is in the form of a tubular...
4554882 Fender system  
Fender system comprising at least one absorbing body of elastomer material, which can be secured directly or indirectly to a quay or a jetty, and a front plate which is parallel in essentially a...
4548150 Readily replaceable bumper guard support and bumper for water covered areas  
A quadrilateral is secured to horizontally extending and vertically spaced supports adjacent a water covered area. A support frame is secured to the quadrilateral in a downward, parallel...
4548151 Replaceable marine fender mechanism  
A replaceable marine fender mechanism according to the present invention is adapted for connection to marine structures such as the cylindrical legs of offshore platforms to prevent vessels and...
4546856 Fender beam and life ladder in one  
A fender beam and life ladder in one which serves as a life ladder mounted on a wall surface of a quay or the like and extending substantially vertically at least from a water level to an upper end...
4545316 Marine fenders  
A marine fender provided with a shock receiving plate is disclosed. In the marine fender, at least one rod member is embedded in a shock receiving portion along its side edge and connected to the...
4526124 Fender holder  
The invention relates to a fender holder, which in order to reduce manufacturing costs and necessary space for storage and transportation, is possible to produce in one or some few standard types....
4516943 Amusement ride raft  
A raft for a rapid flow water course amusement ride having a generally circular shaped hull fabricated in two sections with a surrounding floatation bumper and separate redundant floatation...
4497593 Floating structures  
A fender system for a floating structure such as an off-shore platform wherein a column supporting the platform has a plurality of vertically spaced rail members that are interconnected by a...
4494474 Fender and life ladder in one  
A fender and life ladder for mounting on the wall surface of a quay in a harbor comprises a main post formed of a resilient material and a plurality of rung members mounted on said main post in a...
4462329 Mooring line holding device  
A device for holding a mooring line in position relative to a boat dock for facilitating the mooring of a boat at the dock includes a mounting member to be affixed to a pile or other vertical...
4446806 Single point mooring and fender  
The specification discloses a single point mooring and fender suitable for large ocean going vessels. A dolphin is surrounded by a ring which is connected to the dolphin by a plurality of...
4437793 Protecting means  
In an embodiment of the invention as depicted, buoyant flotation devices are tethered in a spaced-apart circumjacency to a water-bound and partially water-submerged object, to protect the object...
4433942 Wharf fender  
This invention relates to a Wharf fender assembly for use with wharves or docks made generally from resiliently deformable material. The Wharf Fender assembly includes an elongate tubular bender...
4428568 Force-absorbing device  
The disclosed invention relates to a force-absorbing member which is formed of a resilient plastic material having a relatively high tensile strength mounted in a suitable restraining member. The...
4414911 Berth for mooring supply ship to an offshore platform and for transferring personnel between them  
The berth for offshore platform has a floating fendering system to which the supply boat is berthing and derrick crane which lifts the floating fendering system from water to the level of the upper...
4408931 Shock cell product  
An energy-absorbing shock cell for mounting bumper devices on legs of offshore oil rig structures having inner and outer metal tubes connected by an intervening vulcanized rubber sleeve maintained...
4408556 Fender, respectively plug for a fender  
Fender provided with an all-through hole for its suspension from a quay or other mooring place for ships by a chain or other type of suspension in at least one end of the hole of the fender a plug...
4407484 Impact energy absorber  
An impact energy attenuator has a housing in front of a roadway abutment. A leading nose piece and a number of impact walls can move toward and away from the abutment. Coil springs urge the nose...
4399764 Passive shock mitigation system with sea water metering shock absorber  
Passive apparatus for absorbing the kinetic energy of a collision to prot an underwater structure from damage in a collision which includes a ring suspended by a ring support system so that the...
4398848 Marine energy cell  
An energy-absorbing device for mounting a ship fending barrier on a marine docking structure. The device has two units that are connected together. Each unit has spaced inner and outer tubular...
4388025 Guard for offshore structure  
The invention comprises a guard for disposition adjacent an offshore structure to protect the structure from impact. The guard comprises a tubular body of resilient material, at least one flexible...
4378749 Rotatable tire for barge bumper  
A rotatable energy-absorbing sleeve unit for ship bumpers including a rim-free vehicle rubber-containing tire carcass filled with elastomeric foam. The elastomeric foam may be either polyurethane...
4376419 Marine fender  
A marine fender structure including a plurality of rollers rotatably mounted on a pair of flexible elongated supports. Horizontal spacers are provided at vertically spaced intervals along these...
4363474 Anti-pull-out bumper  
An energy-absorbing shock cell for mounting bumper or barrier devices on legs or other members of offshore oil rig structures having inner and outer metal tubes connected by an intervening rubber...
4357891 Floating moorage device for use with piles or dolphins  
A floating mooring device adapted to be used with one or more piles projecting upwardly in a body of water. The device includes a float which is fastened to a cylindrical collar loosely surrounding...
4355792 Hollow marine fender  
A hollow marine fender comprising a hollow cylindrical body formed of elastic rubber material. At least one end portion of a center surface of the hollow cylindrical body diverge toward the end...
4352484 Shear action and compression energy absorber  
An energy absorbing apparatus is provided to dissipate the energy of the impact force of a vehicle. A plurality of energy absorbing sheets are arranged in a stacked relation to resist the impact...