Patent classifications
B63B7/087
PEDAL DRIVE AND STEERING ASSEMBLY FOR INFLATABLE WATERCRAFT AND WATERCRAFT COMBINED WITH SAME
A pedal assembly and steering assembly are disclosed for converting an inflatable, drop stitch paddle watercraft into a pedal watercraft. The pedal assembly includes a mounting plate and mounting bracket for supporting a geared drive shaft in an opening extending through the floor of the watercraft. The steering assembly includes a rudder connected to a tiller through push pull cables.
Inflatable shuttle boat
An inflatable shuttle boat including a seat tube, a pair of exterior buoyancy tubes, and a pair of foot support tubes. The seat tube has an elongate, cylindrical outer surface that is centrally located and extends from a front end to an aft end, the seat tube sized for single-file, straddled seating of a plurality of riders on top of the cylindrical outer surface. The pair of exterior buoyancy tubes have an elongate shape providing exterior sides of the inflatable shuttle boat, each of the pair of exterior buoyancy tubes having a larger diameter and height than the seat tube and extend in a parallel disposition to the seat tube at right and left sides. The pair of foot support tubes have elongate shapes extending adjacent and parallel to the seat tube in coupled engagement between the pair of exterior buoyancy tubes and the seat tube.
Survival craft
This invention relates to a survival craft comprising a hull (10) formed from inflatable members, an optional canopy support structure carried by the hull and formed from inflatable members, and an inflatable wall structure (11). The invention also relates to rigid pod (19) configured to carry a survival craft in a deflated state and be coupled to the hull when the craft is in an inflated state. The inflatable parts may be formed from drop thread material.
WATERCRAFT
The invention relates to a watercraft comprising an at least partly elastic and preferably inflatable casing (1), in particular a casing which surrounds an inner region. The watercraft has a base (2), an energy storage device (6), and a drive device which is secured to the base and comprises a drive unit (4) that is located in the water during operation, the flow of water produced by the drive unit during operation being controllable by means of a controller. The drive device is releasably secured to the base as a module comprising the energy storage device (6), which is designed as part of the module, such that the module can be removed as a structural unit.
Inflatable motor boat
An inflatable motor boat with a U-shaped hull in plan view and configured to operate in shallow water. An inflatable bottom is attached to the hull and comprises an inclined longitudinal tunnel having an arc-shaped form in cross section. A portion of the tunnel is wedge-shaped with an angle of inclination from 5° to 45°. The width of the tunnel can be reduced in a rearward direction, and an upper surface of the tunnel can have a sinusoidal shape in a longitudinal section.
SURVIVAL CRAFT
This invention relates to a survival craft comprising a hull (10) formed from inflatable members, an optional canopy support structure carried by the hull and formed from inflatable members, and an inflatable wall structure (11). The invention also relates to rigid pod (19) configured to carry a survival craft in a deflated state and be coupled to the hull when the craft is in an inflated state. The inflatable parts may be formed from drop thread material.
Modular recreational watercraft
A recreational watercraft system of interconnectable, inflatable tubes that can incorporate a configurable frame that may be removably affixed at different vertical heights to attachment brackets that are axially strapped around the inflatable tubes. A plethora of accessories are available to accommodate, oars, paddles, masts, motors and the like, depending on what watercraft shape has been assembled. It can be assembled into a canoe, raft, motorboat, sailboat, fishing float etc.
INFLATABLE MOTOR BOAT
An inflatable motor boat refers to water vehicles, in particular, to inflatable boats with outboard engines operating in low water conditions. The problem to which the invention is directed, is to improve the performance parameters of inflatable motor boats, The technical result of the claimed invention is the possibility of high-performance boating in low and extreme low depth conditions at different speeds due to the presence of the inclined longitudinal tunnel, with some configuring details in different versions, which allows to improve the water supply to the propellers of outboard engines or, in the case of water jet engines, to their water jet inlets, to optimize their location and eliminate the risk of damage thereof. The claimed technical result is achieved by the fact that the invention is an inflatable motor boat with a U-shaped hull in plan view. The hull of the inflatable motor boat is formed by open outline of inflatable boards and bow part. An inflatable bottom is attached to the hull, which bottom is divided into at least three longitudinal segments. A longitudinal tunnel is made in the middle segment of the bottom, the inner surface of which tunnel has essentially arc-shaped form. The tunnel comprises a portion having a wedge-shaped form in a vertical section, wherein the angle of inclination of the portion relative to the water surface plane is from 5 to 45. The tunnel can also comprise an additional portion with an angle of inclination from 0 to 20 relative to the water surface plane, wherein the length of the additional portion is less than the length of the wedge-shaped portion.
Inflatable raft
Implementations of an inflatable raft that has a figure-eight shape are provided. The figure-eight shape serves to stabilize the inflatable raft and allows it to be paddled and maneuvered by a single paddler. An example inflatable raft may include a figure-eight shaped buoyant member comprised of a plurality of tube-sections. The plurality of tube-sections are connected together end-to-end to form a front lobe, a rear lobe, and a narrow central section, the narrow central section connects the front lobe to the rear lobe. The inflatable raft also includes a floor that is connected to the underside of the figure-eight shaped buoyant member. The plurality of tube sections that form the front lobe, the rear lobe, and the narrow central section are positioned to define a compartment of some depth between them, the floor acts as a bottom for the compartment.
Inflatable motor boat with motor mount
An inflatable boat with a motor mount for use in shallow water conditions. The inflatable boat with the motor mount has a U-shaped hull in plan view, which is formed by open outline of inflatable boards and nose, as well as a transom installed on the boat stern and an inflatable bottom attached to the hull from below, and which bottom has an axissymmetric groove laying longitudinally from the stern end. The groove is V-shaped in cross-section. The depth of the groove is reduced uniformly in direction to the bottom nose. The inflatable boat according to the present invention allows expansion of usage specifications of the inflatable boats with motor mount, provides an additional guard for the outboard motors installed on them against possible mechanical damages and lowers fuel consumption in comparison with the boats of similar design.