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7303453 Collapsible inflatable dive buoy  
An inflatable dive float is provided with a supported flag that is collapsible to a small size for ease of handling and storage. The dive float includes a novel buoyancy element formed of a durable...
7179145 Deployable and autonomous mooring system  
A self-mooring module. In particular, a self-mooring module that may be deployed by air, surface or underwater. The module includes a combination anchor/air brake, a buoy, and a mooring line. The...
7083483 Inflatable sailboat racing mark that can be reduced in size for storage while inflated  
A mark for sailboat racing having three inflatable elongated tubes joined closely at one common end so that when inflated, a mutual repelling force is developed at the common end causing the...
7083484 Inflatable dive marker and collection bag  
An inflatable diver marker and collection bag is disclosed which can be utilized by a diver for collecting lobster, conch, etc., as well as providing for a diver location marker to boats and other...
7001235 Surface marker buoy apparatus  
A surface marker buoy apparatus is provided for use in diving and in particular for use in assisting a diver during his ascent. The apparatus includes an inflatable buoy which can be inflated when...
6592416 Target for naval gunfire  
A floating target for naval gunfire. The target includes an inflatable buoyant superstructure with a drogue chute attached to the periphery of the bottom of the superstructure. The drogue chute,...
6457527 Apparatus and method for adding buoyancy to riser with inflatable floatation collar  
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...
6257337 Submerged riser tensioner  
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...
6254445 Inflatable chemical foam injected buoy  
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...
6162106 Inflatable flag buoy workable in both the daytime and the night  
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...
5839931 Safety stop anchor  
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...
5795203 Air-launched buoy  
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...
5735719 Combination inflatable dive flag and float  
A combination inflatable dive flag and float that visually marks a position in a waterway where a diver is diving. The combination includes an inflatable, hollow, elongated, slender,...
5520486 Diver safety apparatus and method  
The present invention comprises a method and apparatus for identifying a down diver in distress comprising activating automatic inflation means to inflate a tube, activating automatic signal means,...
5516317 System to sink and float buoys  
Submarine (6) devices consisting of cavity to hold sand and an inflatable air bladder (10) are located beneath and connected to floating buoys (2). The weight of the sand when put inside the cavity...
5406294 Floating antenna system  
A floating antenna system which can be deployed and retrieved by an underwater diver is equipped with a pressure proof radome atop an elongated support stalk carrying a lobed, inverted pyramidoidal...
5299962 Buoy for storing line connected to underwater object  
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...
5141458 Marker buoy  
A marker buoy, typically for use by divers, includes a lighter-than-water flotation component, such as a bladder (17) which can be inflated when the buoy is required to float and deflated when it...
5073136 Collapsible sonobuoy floatation device  
A surface unit for a sonobuoy or similar device is disclosed and includes a variable volume sealed chamber and an arrangement including a pressurized carbon dioxide cartridge within the sealed...
4832288 Recovery system  
A recovery system for decelerating/stabilizing and protecting space vehicles, boosters, astronauts, equipment and like payloads, including a paracanopy defined by a frusto-conical flexible...
4722498 Inflatable air foil  
A non-rigid, gas inflatable airfoil having a bulbous inflatable forward body and three spaced-apart rearwardly extending inflatable tails. The tails are attached to the rearward portion of the body...
4717092 Torpedo recovery device  
A torpedo recovery unit positionable within a torpedo casing having an opening for receiving the unit. The unit includes a body with an interior cavity having an open end mountable within the...
4702715 Automatic emergency rescue apparatus  
An automatic rescue apparatus for deploying a flotation device. The unit can be mounted vertically on the rail of a vessel or horizontally on the deck. The rescue apparatus has a life ring, a...
4675686 Flotation bag assembly  
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...
4666338 Ocean bottom seismometer release mechanism  
A method and apparatus for retrieving an ocean bottom seismometer deployed to a subsea location is disclosed wherein inflatable flexible housings are attached to cylindrical cannisters having...
4662301 Floating platform for decorative articles  
A floating platform for supporting articles in a swimming pool or other body of water. The platform has a toroidal outer chamber filled with air, a toroidal middle chamber filled with water, and a...
4586456 Inflatable balloon distress marker having small article containing compartment therein  
A balloon distress marker wherein the balloon has, in a wall thereof, a small compartment interiorly of the balloon and accessible through an aperture in the wall of the balloon for retaining an...
4578041 Water actuated inflatable float device  
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...
4507093 Buoy device for automatic raising of submerged objects  
A device for automatically raising fish traps, crayfish pots, nets and the like comprises a tank containing pressurized gas connected through a control valve to an inflatable bladder. A control...
4497632 Inflatable buoy  
An inflatable buoy assembly includes a flotation receptacle (12), a propellant breech (14), and an equipment container (16). These three components are designed for telescoping engagement and...
4493664 Sonobuoy float inflation and depth selection initiators  
A shape-memory alloy initially configured to have engaging potential for a ance, guillotine or pin connected thereto is wrapped in a heating element powered by current from a water activated...
4487151 Floating highway  
The present invention is a floating highway unit which has a structure which facilitates both removal from linkage in a series of units forming the highway, provides for simple alignment of the...
4482333 Automatic inflation system  
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....
4406631 Flotation device  
An air launchable sonobuoy having two separate liquid chemicals which react pon mixing to form an expanded, rigid foam flotation device. Upon deployment in the air, windflaps release a preloaded...
4405099 Apparatus for activating system in response to impact  
An impact apparatus responsive to a time rate of change of velocity of a housing is used to activate a system. A specific application of the invention fixes the housing to an aircraft body with an...
4403888 Oil containment booms  
The invention concerns the design of an oil containment boom suitable particularly for stowage on a reel. The boom in its inflated condition, is of "T" section having double buoyancy chambers and a...
4380440 Droppable airborne buoy  
An airborne buoy droppable from an aircraft into water, comprising, as a float, a balloon which inflates during its fall. Before being dropped the balloon is protected by a hood locked by a bent...
4379534 Cargo lift system  
A system for transferring cargo at sea by helicopter includes an automatily activated self inflatable apparatus for reducing the velocity of the cargo if jettisoned or inadvertently dropped into...
4340626 Diffusion pumping apparatus self-inflating device  
An elastomeric enclosure is initially inflated to a desired pressure by a gas having large molecules incapable of diffusing outwardly from the enclosure, except at a relatively slow rate. When the...
4312484 Inflatable flow control  
A flow control is provided between an inflatable and a smaller inflatable log which positions the inflatable with respect to the craft to which it is affixed. The flow control permits the inflation...
4309786 Buoy flotation system  
A buoy flotation system, wherein a container of a compressed fluid is utilized for expansion of a float, includes a cutter for severing and removal of a portion of the container for releasing the...
4295438 Rescue locator signal package  
A device for producing a rescue signal for use by a person who is lost or has had an accident. The device is in the form of a compact package including a casing containing a deflated and collapsed...
4281427 Warning and signalling device, especially for maritime purposes  
The present warning and/or signalling device is intended to provide radar signal reflections for locating a ship or an aircraft wreck or reflected warning signals when sensing the approach of a...
4271552 Torpedo floatation device  
A torpedo recovery system including an expandable sleeve surrounding a portion of the torpedo. Upon activation of the recovery system gas is introduced into the sleeve, causing it to expand. The...
4240371 Signal bladder  
A signalling device for underwater divers, in the form of an inflatable bladder held within a container and attached to a reel. The device can be attached to a diver, being strapped to his arm or...
4232417 Marine mammal retrieval apparatus  
An acquatic retrieval apparatus is provided which includes a flotation bag, gas pressure bottle which is associated with the flotation bag for inflating the bag, a puncturing device connected to...
4102296 Marine safety signal device  
A marine safety signal device includes an elongated line member, wherein one end of the line member is secured to a boat. A radar detectable element and a balloon element are secured to the other...
4099281 Navigational buoy  
A navigational buoy is provided having a buoy and an inflatable anchor. The buoy and anchor are connected by a hollow stem that is itself flexible or is rigid and is connected to the anchor by a...
4092756 Diver's buoyant caddy  
Diver's Caddy Vessel, adapted primarily to move beneath a seaway surface, made buoyant by the diver's exhalant into a skirt of the vessel, whereby to offset suspension weight of diver's gear, game...
4048942 Helicopter towline recovery buoy system  
A helicopter carried, towline recovery buoy system including a package coining a retrieval line, inflatable buoys, and buoy inflating devices. A support and release mechanism releases the package...
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