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7712727 |
Air cushion vehicle bow skirt retraction system
A system and method retracts and lets-out a laterally extending flexible bow seal on an air cushion vehicle having a bow ramp. Attachment loops on the forward outside surface of the bow seal...
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7654353 |
Wrapped-cone fingers for skirt systems
Wrapped-cone fingers for use in an air-cushion vehicle (ACV) skirt system are described. Wrapped-cone fingers may include an inner cone that is “wrapped” or generally enclosed by an outer fin...
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7520356 |
Modular wall climbing robot with transition capability
A mobile robot generally including a first suction module, a second suction module and a hinge assembly pivotably connecting the suction modules together. Each of the suction modules includes a...
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7487935 |
Aircraft having variable incidence wing and air cushion landing system
An aircraft including a fuselage and at least one wing which may vary incidence with respect to the fuselage for the purpose of extremely short take off and landing and an air cushion system...
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7426974 |
Air bearing base and workstation
In accordance with the present invention, there is provided a workstation or other heavy object which is easily moved, yet steady and stable when parked. Underneath this object is attached a...
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7398740 |
Multi-mission/purpose ground-effect craft derived from a common modular platform
A multi-mission/purpose ground-effect craft is provided which is derived from a common modular platform which includes a hull; an inner floor structure adapted to be installed over the hull; a body...
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7383907 |
Air-cushion vehicle
A light air-cushion vehicle has a thrust reverser bucket arranged at an output end of an air nozzle, at least one direction rudder having control surfaces at the output end of the air nozzle and at...
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7347154 |
Amphibious craft
The present invention relates to an improved amphibious craft or vehicle and, in particular, but not exclusively, to a craft or vehicle that may be used for commercial and rescue tasks in a great...
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7306066 |
Air cushion vehicle and game
The present invention is an air cushion vehicle and a control mechanism for steering and turning the vehicle. The air cushion vehicle includes a frame having a skirt body extending around the...
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7296526 |
Dual stability seal skirt system for air cushion vehicle
A marine air cushion vehicle provides a hull having a hull periphery, an inflatable bag connected to the hull at the hull periphery, an inflatable skirt connected to the bag, and a pair of...
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7210549 |
Air board
An air board including a platform upon which an operator of the vehicle can be supported; and a support arrangement for providing an air flow for supporting the platform above a surface, wherein...
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7204672 |
Multi-modal forced vortex device
A multi-modal forced vortex device is described having a top plate and a side wall creating a partially enclosed volume. The top plate includes one or more adjustable fluid openings to permit, or...
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6742616 |
Hybrid air boost vehicle and method for making same
A hybrid air boost vehicle makes use of the porous panels and suction devices of a vehicle aerodynamic drag reduction system, and makes use of the air consumed by such a system, to provide the...
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6216599 |
Ground effect transport system
A transportation system has an air cushion vehicle in a U-shaped or W-shaped channel in the ground. The channel provides support and directional stability for the air cushion vehicle during transit...
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5941331 |
Air cushion vehicle control system
Control of air cushion vehicles is obtained by controlling the translation of the vehicle independently from control of the rotation (yaw). Lateral translation of the vehicle is controlled by...
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5931248 |
Durable roll-stabilizing keel system for hovercraft
An inflated roll-stabilizing keel system has a first trough-shaped bladder nd a second trough-shaped bladder attached to the underside of a forward portion of the first trough-shaped bladder. Holes...
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5909857 |
Filimonov hybrid dirigible craft
The hybrid dirigible craft belongs to the category of flying vehicles which use an air cushion and take off and land at any type of airfield. The air of the invention is to design an improved...
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5727495 |
Surface effect vehicle
A surface effect vehicle includes a vehicle body having opposed longitudinally extending sides and a longitudinally extending deck having an upper and lower surfaces extending widthwise between the...
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5566775 |
Skirted surface effect vehicle
A surface effect vehicle for traversing a water or ground surface is provided. The surface effect vehicle comprises an elongate body and forward and rear scoops, preferably having a large angle of...
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5560443 |
Hovercraft having segmented skirt which reduces plowing
A self-propelled hovercraft having a body or hull around the periphery of which is a segmented skirt. The segmented skirt of the hovercraft comprises a plurality of bags, one adjacent to another,...
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5542366 |
Air cushion vehicle with high stability skirt system
An air cushion vehicle having a low drag, high stability non-scooping skirt system including closed loop finger sleeves. An enlarged bag combines to provide a more responsive skirt profile. The...
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5520261 |
Static trimmer for a hovercraft
A static trimmer for a hovercraft is provided for shifting the center of buoyancy of an air-cushion of the hovercraft in relation to the center of gravity. The static trimmer includes a peripheral...
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5501291 |
Skirt for an air cushion vehicle and filament member thereto
The air cushion chambers of an air cushion vehicle are horizontally delimited by a skirt. The skirt comprises brushes with elongated downwards extended filaments (9), which have downwards...
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5377775 |
Hovercraft motorcycle
In a preferred embodiment, a hovercraft motorcycle for travel over a ground surface, comprising: a body portion having a front end, a rear end, a longitudinal centerline extending from the rear end...
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5370197 |
Air cushion vehicle
A small-sized air cushion vehicle includes a hull having a planar bottom surface with an upstanding lower flange disposed at a predetermined angle with respect to the bottom surface. A plurality of...
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5279379 |
Compact, coupled propulsion and lift unit for hovercraft
A combined propulsion and lift unit for an air-cushion vehicle is provided comprising an elongate shaft mounted for rotation about its central longitudinal axis, bearings for rotatably supporting...
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5119897 |
Means for mounting a skirt on an air cushion vehicle
The present invention relates to a method of mounting a skirt on an air cushion vehicle body in an air cushion vehicle (trade name, Hovercraft) to easily mount or dismount the skirt on the air...
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5014803 |
Device capable of suction-adhering to a wall surface and moving therealong
A device comprising a main body, a motor and drive wheels mounted on the main body, a partitioning member mounted on the main body and defining a pressure reduction space in cooperation with the...
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4951770 |
Structure to form a load-bearing air cushion for a vehicle
In an air cushion load transport vehicle, an annular sealing assembly comprising an annular inflatable hanger on the underside of a load-bearing base and an annular sealing means on the underside...
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4905781 |
Water skate
A fluid-cushion-supported pallet or water skate in which the cushion-fluid is generally defined by a multi-part or segmental, flexible skirt, in which the contiguous skirt members have their...
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4896610 |
Fluid cushion device
Fluid cushion equipment comprising a floor having valves supplied by a matrix of fluid supply lines and a fluid cushion platform. Positioning of the platform on or above the valves actively causes...
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4862984 |
Amphibious air cushion vehicle
An amphibious air cushion vehicle includes a body defining an air containment wall, and an inflatable tube is attached to the body and defines a rearward opening. A fan is positioned within the...
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4843991 |
Surface effect transport vehicle including improved lift means
A surface effect transport vehicle is provided having a structure supported by a cushion of pressurized air generated from a blower. The propulsive source of the vehicle is independent from the...
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4821829 |
Air cushion vehicle
An air cushion vehicle capable of operation over land or water, which includes a hull carrying at least one air supply unit, an outer inflatable member connected to and extending around the entire...
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4718501 |
Self-trailering hovercraft
A self-trailering hovercraft is disclosed, having wheels such that the wheels can remain in the same position when the hovercraft is trailering or in the hover mode, or retracted for additional...
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4702332 |
Attachment of skirt pants for surface-effect vehicles
To make a skirt part of a surface-effect vehicle readily and reliably retainable to the vehicle while able to be folded to be sent to the position of use, the skirt part has an enlarged bead to be...
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4696362 |
Retractable, lever action, scroll seal for a surface effect ship
An improved seal design for a Surface Effect Ship, having an inflatable ir seal member, and outer seal member composed of a pliable sheet material scrollably affixed to the hull fore and aft of the...
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4657101 |
Parasol design for transversely supported membrane seal
The purpose of this invention is to improve the life of transversely stiffened membrane (TSM) seals. To this end the inventors have introduced a segmented glass reinforced plastic (GRP) plank into...
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4646866 |
Surface effect type, side keel vessel fitted with an improved forward buoyancy cushion seal apparatus
This invention concerns a surface effect vessel whose type comprises a buoyed up structure fitted with two side keels (20), an rear seal apparatus rear and a forward seal apparatus (200) both...
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4569410 |
Apparatus for carrying and transporting loads
An apparatus for carrying and transporting loads over a surface comprises: a supporting platform; a flexible damping ring fixed to the supporting platform along a circular closed-loop line of...
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4549626 |
Arrangement in air cushion vehicles
An arrangement for the attachment of a lower portion of a skirt forming an air cushion limiting member in an air cushion vehicle comprises attachment points inside the skirt. These attachment...
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4535712 |
Variable air cushion mode vehicle
A boat hull having at least one extending hull (10), an intermediate hull portion (13), a flexible plenum chamber (14) to raise and lower the intermediate hull portion (13), and a flexible skirt...
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4518054 |
Air cushion vehicle provided with a lift system with automatic transversal air distribution
An air cushion vehicle is provided with a lift system including a flexible keel. The vehicle has a rigid body which is supported on an air cushion. The air cushion is divided into two longitudinal...
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4516651 |
Vehicles travelling on air cushions allowing movement of the latter over all types of terrain
A vehicle travelling on air cushions comprises a lifted structure and a lift arrangement which comprises at least one multilobular skirt having a plurality of first lobes open towards the inside of...
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4494473 |
Surface effect ship stern seal
There is disclosed a surface effect ship stern seal system comprising a plurality of side-by-side vertically standing inflatable fingers of open top form, the leading end portions of the fingers...
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4488614 |
Air-cushion vehicles
An air-cushion vehicle comprising a lifted structure, a central cushion, and a peripheral lift arrangement in which each lobe of the outer skirt projects outside the lifted structure and preferably...
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4471849 |
Vehicles travelling on air cushions
An air cushion vehicle comprising a structure to be lifted, a central lifting cushion and a peripheral lifting arrangement including a plurality of lifting cells defined externally by an outer...
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4469334 |
Sealing system for the air cushion of an air-cushion vessel
A sealing system for the air cushion of an air-cushion vessel comprising rigid sidewalls designed as buoyant bodies, and at least at the front between the rigid walls a series of adjacent,...
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4448277 |
Skirts and skirt handling for air cushion vehicles
An air cushion vehicle has a plenum structure surrounding the vehicle body and a plurality of skirt segments. Each segment is attached to its own rigid frame which supports a flexible membrane. The...
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4436312 |
Transversely supported seal
A seal structure for an air cushion vessel includes an inflatable bag secured to the hull and a transversely stiffened lobe portion maintained therebeneath. The stiffened lobe portion consists of a...
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