Abstract:
An apparatus provides a warning of propeller rotation or CO/CO2 hazard in a marine craft and includes a sensor in communication with the propeller to directly or indirectly sense rotation of the propeller and to generate a signal in response to the hazard, a controller coupled to the sensor to process the signal from the sensor, and a sensory alarm coupled to the controller to generate a warning alarm signal when the sensor returns a signal indicative of a predetermined state of hazard, namely actual rotation of the propeller from a nonzero rpm to a user or factory defined rpm or CO/CO2 levels at or above a predetermined maximum.
Abstract:
A cowling for an outboard marine engine includes an upper motor cover, a lower motor cover and a gear case that covers an engine that propels a watercraft. The upper motor cover mates with the lower motor cover and is configured to assist with alignment during assembly. The lower motor cover is configured to be assembled to one of a plurality of upper motor covers depending on engine size, and each upper motor cover is configured to be assembled to one of a plurality of top caps depending on whether the engine uses an electric starter or a pull starter. An illuminator, in the form of a lamp, a removable light or a reflector, is provided on the cowling.
Abstract:
A pleomorphic inflatable device that first helps the victim through the need for corrective turning during water entry by placing buoyancy high on the chest optimizing corrective turning. After the victim is stabilized face up the bladder then can be reconfigured to provide incremental improvements in freeboard and surface positioning. The bladder can be removed and converted into a distress marker to signal a rescuer and mark the victim's location. The buoyancy of the marker can also be converted into a fully submerged bladder providing optimal freeboard to assist scanning for other vessels while enhancing lateral stability that supports a Heat Escape Lessening Posture position. If the seaway is growing increasingly rough the bladder can be reconfigured to once again prioritize corrective turning over vertical freeboard.
Abstract:
A cowling for an outboard marine engine includes an upper motor cover, a lower motor cover and a gear case that covers an engine that propels a watercraft. The upper motor cover mates with the lower motor cover and is configured to assist with alignment during assembly. The lower motor cover is configured to be assembled to one of a plurality of upper motor covers depending on engine size, and each upper motor cover is configured to be assembled to one of a plurality of top caps depending on whether the engine uses an electric starter or a pull starter. An illuminator, in the form of a lamp, a removable light or a reflector, is provided on the cowling.
Abstract:
A marker buoy is provided for use with a flexible line tied to a weighted sinker. The buoy includes a watertight, transparent dome assembly with an interior light source positioned therein. The dome assembly resides on a buoyant housing with a bottom aperture and line guide for receiving and guiding a flexible line for winding on a reel assembly positioned within the housing. The reel assembly utilizes a spiral coil spring that is wound as the line unwinds from the spool and acts to return excess line to the spool as the sinker attached to the line comes to rest on its intended submerged surface. In one embodiment a reduction gear is provided to increase the number of spool turns available before the spring winds completely.
Abstract:
A glow-in-the-dark rescue line throw-bag having a phosphorescent rope line loosely stored in a receptacle having a transparent sidewall. A first end of the phosphorescent rope line is secured to the receptacle, with the central portion of the phosphorescent rope line stored in the rope storage volume. A second end of the phosphorescent rope line may be grasped by a user at an open end of the receptacle. When the throw-bag is deployed, and upon the phosphorescent rope being substantially charged, a rescuee who has fallen into the water may easily view the glowing rope line through the transparent wall of the receptacle as it is being thrown in the air. In this manner, a rescuee may better sight where the throw-bag has landed in the water.
Abstract:
A fishing lure contains a light source which when OFF is turned ON by the transition from disconnected to connected state of a device which acts as a switch. The device includes a conducting body with a defined locus of movement for said body during motion of said lure, and a pair of contacts adapted to be connected or disconnected by said body at various locations in said locus. The movement of said body causes it to make mechanical impacts and the vibrations from said impacts are transmitted to the water surrounding said lure.
Abstract:
An energy generator of a Sonobuoy is overlapped by a sleeve or chimney guiding gas bubbles given off by the generator to a sufficient distance from an electro-acoustic transducer of the Sonobuoy, to prevent such bubbles from coming into contact with the transducer under heaving effects. The result is suppression of unwanted noise produced by the contact between the bubbles and the transducer.
Abstract:
The present invention is a self-setting, illuminated buoy marker for anglers, made of a translucent material which is elongated in shape and has a bifurcated body of two end members connected to a narrow waist stem member. The marker has a lighting device inside of the buoy marker, which may be illuminated for night fishing and gives off a soft illumination which is only visible for limited distances so as not to spook the fish or to give away the angler's precise position. Attached to the buoy marker is an anchor line and an anchor assembly which unwinds and sets the buoy in a precise location that the angler selects and maintains the buoy in that position. When the buoy is in an operative position it is visible to the angler from any direction in both daylight and darkness, regardless of wind or wave conditions.
Abstract:
A BUOY FOR MARKING THE LOCATION OF A SUNKEN CRAFT. THE BUOY CONTAINS LIFESAVING AND SPINALING EQUIPMENT. AN AUTOMATICALLY INFLATABLE RAFT CAN BE REMOVED BY A SURVIVOR AND A BLINKING LIGHT IS TURNED ON DURING THE TWILIGHT AND NIGHTIME TO SIGNAL A RESCUER. A NUMBER OF LIGHT REFLECTING PLATES REFLECT SUNLIGHT DURING THE DAYTIME TO PRODUCE A DAYTIME SIGNALING DEVICE.