Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
114230130 | Including tower or riser connected to sea floor (e.g., column, mast, etc.) | 21 |
20110041752 | ANCHORMAN MARINE MOORING AND DOCKING SYSTEM - The Anchorman System invention is a unique and ecologically friendly invention to dock, moor, and secure small watercraft and marine recreation products. The Invention is designed to eliminate the backbreaking job of installing and un-installing equipment each boating season. In addition, the Invention serves as a Terrestrial photo electric (Solar Panel) anchoring system permitting the optimal placement for solar panel anchorages. | 02-24-2011 |
20110107952 | Anchor system - A push-pole anchor has a hollow housing securable on the stern of a boat and a plurality of anchor members telescopically extendable from the housing. A power source, which can be a hydraulic pump connected to an electric motor, supplies hydraulic fluid into the housing pushing the anchor members into an extended deployed position. Reverse activation of the pump causes the hydraulic fluid to be sucked from the housing, thereby retrieving the anchor members into a retracted position. | 05-12-2011 |
20110209652 | Shallow Water Anchor - A shallow water anchor is provided. The shallow water anchor comprises a first anchor extension and a second anchor extension axially received by a housing. The first anchor extension is axially received by the second anchor extension such that the first and second anchor extensions are sequentially deployable from the housing an actuation arrangement. The actuation arrangement is controlled by a control interface that is operable to detect when the shallow water anchor has reached a fully extended state and fully retracted state. The shallow water anchor further includes a biasing compensator that compensates for fluctuations in the overall depth of water the anchor is deployed in due to waves or other anomalies. | 09-01-2011 |
20110209653 | Shallow Water Anchor - A shallow water anchor is provided. The shallow water anchor comprises a first anchor extension and a second anchor extension axially received by a housing. The first anchor extension is axially received by the second anchor extension such that the first and second anchor extensions are sequentially deployable from the housing an actuation arrangement. The actuation arrangement is controlled by a control interface that is operable to detect when the shallow water anchor has reached a fully extended state and fully retracted state. The shallow water anchor further includes a biasing compensator that compensates for fluctuations in the overall depth of water the anchor is deployed in due to waves or other anomalies. | 09-01-2011 |
20110259256 | SHALLOW WATER ANCHOR SYSTEM - A shallow water anchor system configured to secure a watercraft to a location in a shallow body of water. The shallow water anchor system includes an L-shaped mounting bracket coupled to the watercraft. The shallow water anchor system includes a mount sized and shaped to be coupled to the L-shaped mounting bracket. The mount includes an attachment member sized and shaped to be coupled to the L-shaped mounting bracket. The mount includes a support extending from the attachment member and extending at an off-right angle from the attachment member. The mount includes a channel coupled to the support and extending substantially perpendicularly therefrom. The shallow water anchor system includes a spike sized and shaped to extend through the channel and be held thereby. | 10-27-2011 |
20120090522 | Anchoring System for a Kayak - Apparatus and system are disclosed for anchoring a kayak to the bottom of a body of shallow water. In one embodiment, the apparatus includes a tube for attachment to the kayak proximate the upper portion of the kayak between the bow and the stern of the kayak, and a shaft which is disposed in the tube. A gear box is provided proximate the seat which comprises a gearing mechanism for operative engagement with the shaft, and a rotatable handle which is external to the gear box for operative connection to the gearing mechanism. The rotatable handle, when rotated in a first direction, deploys the shaft from a position inside the tube to a position outside the tube and into engagement with the bottom of the body of water. An anchoring system according to this embodiment permits the operator of the kayak to anchor the kayak at the bow or stern. | 04-19-2012 |
20120125247 | RATCHETING BOAT ANCHOR - A ratcheting boat anchor allows various watercraft and other objects to be anchored to an anchoring material, such as a section of ground, with increased safety and convenience. The ratcheting boat anchor may include a rod or shaft having one or more blades which may be driven into the anchoring material to secure the anchor. A ratcheting mechanism may be provided to allow a user to rotate the rod in one or more directions without performing an undesirable and potentially hazardous 360 degree rotation or motion with the user's body. The user may rotate the rod through one or more arms of the ratcheting boat anchor. Watercraft and other objects may be attached to an anchor point on the ratcheting boat anchor. | 05-24-2012 |
20120285358 | SIDE-BY-SIDE MOORING BAY - A mooring system may comprise a station keeping apparatus having a turntable rotatably mounted thereon. The station keeping apparatus is operable to movably couple to a first vessel and to a second vessel in a side-by-side configuration. The turntable is operable to freely rotate both the first and the second vessel about the station keeping apparatus. The station keeping apparatus is securable to the second vessel using a head mooring line having a length which is adjustable for aligning a heading of both the first and the second vessel with a prevailing weather direction. Further, the mooring system may comprise a rigid yoke or a soft yoke movably coupling the turntable to the first vessel for angular adjustment between the station keeping apparatus and a longitudinal center line of the first vessel. | 11-15-2012 |
20130104789 | Shallow Water Anchor | 05-02-2013 |
20140000503 | Anchor for Boats | 01-02-2014 |
20140020613 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING FLOATING STRUCTURE - Aspects of the present invention relate to a device and method for controlling a floating structure of a solar power generating device, which can generate electricity from solar power of incident light while tracking the position of the sun in a state in which it floats on the water. | 01-23-2014 |
20140109817 | RETRACTABLE SHALLOW WATER ANCHOR APPARATUS, AND METHODS OF CONSTRUCTING AND UTILIZING SAME - A retractable shallow water anchor system that mounts onto the trolling motor on a boat. The anchor system does not stick up above the top of the trolling motor. When the motor is pulled up or put down, the anchor system travels with it. With the trolling motor down, the user removes the rope from the cleat on the anchor system and two fiberglass rods extend out (extend to 7-8 ft.) to anchor the boat in place. The unit is made of aluminum, stainless steel, and fiberglass. | 04-24-2014 |
20140190386 | OFFSHORE DRILLING VESSEL - A drilling vessel or drilling platform comprising: a hull with a moonpool; and a hydraulic riser tensioner system configured to apply a tension force from the drilling vessel or drilling platform upon a riser string, the riser tensioner system comprising: a riser ring, wherein the riser tensioner system is fastened to the riser string via the riser ring; a set of sheaves provided at each lateral side of the moonpool; a plurality of cables configured to extend between the drilling vessel or drilling platform to the riser ring via the sheaves; and a set of hydraulic cylinders actuating upon the sheaves and thereby applying the tension force to the cables, wherein the hydraulic cylinders are arranged substantially horizontally at the lateral sides of the moonpool. | 07-10-2014 |
20140202369 | ANCHORING, MANEUVERING, DOCKING AND STABALIZING APPARATUS FOR WATER VESSEL - The present invention is directed to an apparatus that allows a boat to be anchored, maneuvered, docking, and stabilized. The invention has a member that can rotate about a first axis from a stowed position to an anchored position. Or the member may be placed downwardly in the ground floor of the body of water, for maneuvering the vessel and to move the vessel in a desired direction. The hull of the vessel may have a channel for the rotation or movement of the member within the channel. | 07-24-2014 |
20140311396 | DIVISIBLE SPUD - A vessel includes a floating body ( | 10-23-2014 |
20140352597 | Shallow water anchor - A shallow water anchor to anchor a water craft in a shallow body of water comprising an anchor positioning assembly mounted on or to the water craft and an anchor member, the anchor position assembly comprises at least one anchor engaging member coupled to an anchor positioning device to raise and lower the anchor member between an elevated position and an anchored position and a system control to control the operation of the anchor position assembly in raising and lowering the anchor member such that the anchor member is lowered to engage the bottom of the shallow body of water to anchor the water craft and the anchor member disengages the bottom of the shallow body of water when the anchor member is raised to permit the water craft to move about the shallow body of water. | 12-04-2014 |
20150360752 | DEPLOYABLE ANCHORING DEVICE - An anchoring device is disclosed providing an easily deployable and removable anchoring point. The anchoring device includes a lower portion configured to be buried into a bottom of a body of water comprising a weighted anchor and at least one spray outlet location upon a bottom surface of the weighted anchor, the spray outlet hole being configured to aid installation and removal of the anchoring device by selectively projecting a spray of water to displace soft debris on the bottom away from the weighted anchor. The anchoring device further includes an upper portion comprising a vertical pole extending upward from the bottom, the pole comprising an anchoring point. | 12-17-2015 |
20150367916 | VESSEL ANCHORING SYSTEM AND METHOD OF USE - An anchoring system for a vessel comprising an anchoring rod, a first support member coupled to a vessel and selectively couplable to the anchoring rod, and a second support member coupled to the vessel and in a spaced relation to the first support member. The second support member retaining the anchoring rod in a slideable engagement and defining a rotation path of the anchoring rod. | 12-24-2015 |
114230140 | Having boom means | 3 |
20110139054 | ADJUSTABLE AND DISCONNECTABLE SUBMERGED-YOKE MOORING SYSTEM - A single point mooring includes a yoke-shaped articulated arm assembly, which is affixed to the seabed by a fixed foundation or mooring base assembly, and a mooring support structure, which is retrofitted to a vessel. The articulated arm is connected to the base by a triaxial articulation joint for accommodating yaw, pitch and roll. To moor the vessel, the arm is connected to the mooring support structure with weighted pendants on port and starboard sides. The pendants are suspended at an adjustable elevation with respect to the mooring support structure, thus allowing the mooring system to be used at varying water depths. A combined connection bracket hosts both pendant linkages and umbilicals or hoses for speeding the process of connecting and disconnecting a vessel from the mooring system. A removable anchor, such as a suction pile, fixes the mooring system to the seabed, allows the system to be easily redeployed to another location. | 06-16-2011 |
20120055388 | 2 STEP CAM MOORING SYSTEM - A mooring system includes a vessel and a elongate mooring column having an upper end connected to an arm on the vessel projecting from the vessel bow and a lower end connected to the sea bed via anchor lines, characterized in that the arm is pivotable around a transverse axis. | 03-08-2012 |
20140283727 | Adjustable and Disconnectable Submerged-Yoke Mooring System - A single point mooring includes a yoke-shaped articulated arm assembly, which is affixed to the seabed by a fixed foundation or mooring base assembly, and a mooring support structure, which is retrofitted to a vessel. The articulated arm is connected to the base by a triaxial articulation joint for accommodating yaw, pitch and roll. To moor the vessel, the arm is connected to the mooring support structure with weighted pendants on port and starboard sides. The pendants are suspended at an adjustable elevation with respect to the mooring support structure, thus allowing the mooring system to be used at varying water depths. A combined connection bracket hosts both pendant linkages and umbilicals or hoses for speeding the process of connecting and disconnecting a vessel from the mooring system. A removable anchor, such as a suction pile, fixes the mooring system to the seabed, allows the system to be easily redeployed to another location. | 09-25-2014 |