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 Boat Repair Inventions & Patents

 

Clixoo Boats is a comprehensive guide and directory for boats. This section of Clixoo Boats is about Boat Repair Inventions & Patents. (Clixoo Boats Home)

 

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Boat Repair

 

1

Rotary boat repair apparatus - An apparatus for repairing boat hulls comprising a rack mounted for rotation about a horizontal axis.

Patent number: 4686925

Filing date: Dec 5, 1985

Issue date: Aug 18, 1987

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2

Method of treating fiberglass boat hulls to repair, prevent and retard blisters - A solution or dispersion of polystyrene is used to treat the submergible surfaces of fiberglass boat hulls to prevent or alleviate blistering.

Patent number: 5997951

Filing date: Nov 24, 1997

Issue date: Dec 7, 1999

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3

Integrated automated analysis and repair - An integrated highly automated analysis system employs a technician terminal for displaying a plurality of inspection screens, and for entering inspection results.

Patent number: 6070155

Filing date: Jan 30, 1998

Issue date: May 30, 2000

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4

Boat hull patch anchor and method for its use - A boat hull patch anchor adapted to be placed on the inside surface of a boat hull over and overlapping a hole in the hull.

Patent number: 7107924

Filing date: Dec 2, 2004

Issue date: Sep 19, 2006

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5

Modular boat rack - A modular boat rack consisting of aluminum castings attached to an aluminum tubular beam of length dependant upon boat length and having nylon webbing of same width as casting pinned at and suspended from the top corners of said castings.

Patent number: 5788256

Filing date: Mar 18, 1996

Issue date: Aug 4, 1998

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6

Jet powered rigid inflatable boat with dead-man switch - In a rigid inflatable boat having a rigid hull with a bottom wall and side walls having top edges carrying floatation pontoon, a water jet drive is mounted on the bottom wall near a transom closing the rear end of the hull.

Patent number: 4964821

Filing date: May 30, 1989

Issue date: Oct 23, 1990

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7

Housing for a boat lift motor, pulley and gear drive - A housing for at least partially housing a boat lift pulley of a boat lift includes a main wall having a substantially vertically disposed wall portion defining an inwardly opening generally concave chamber adapted to at least partially receive therein a boat lift pulley.

Patent number: 6122994

Filing date: Dec 9, 1998

Issue date: Sep 26, 2000

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8

Folding rigid-bottom boat - A folding rigid boat for routine and emergency use by occupants as an auxiliary watercraft.

Patent number: 6739278

Filing date: Feb 21, 2002

Issue date: May 25, 2004

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9

Boat dock and lift Layton - A boat dock and lift is disclosed in which an upright frame is provided having a pair of spaced upright members and a horizontal cross member therebetween.

Patent number: 4641596

Filing date: Jun 3, 1985

Issue date: Feb 10, 1987

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10

Small boat bow thruster - A small boat bow thruster which includes a port and starboard discharge nozzle forwardly mounted through the hull of the boat above the water line.

Patent number: 4807552

Filing date: Apr 11, 1988

Issue date: Feb 28, 1989

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11

Portable boat jacking and rotating apparatus - An apparatus for suspending and rotating a boat about its longitudinal axis in either direction.

Patent number: 5051056

Filing date: Jan 10, 1990

Issue date: Sep 24, 1991

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12

 Open top floatable barge repair box with barge to box sealing system – The present disclosure is directed to a watertight floodable barge repair box of generally L-shape, viewed from its end, having a leg and a foot.

Patent number: 4872781

Filing date: Nov 18, 1988

Issue date: Oct 10, 1989

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13

Barge repair device - A portable, floatable barge repair device is disclosed having a water tight box having front, back and side walls and a bottom, and a top opening.

Patent number: 4615641

Filing date: Aug 3, 1984

Issue date: Oct 7, 1986

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14

Marine drive unit impact avoidance system - A marine drive unit impact avoidance system for boats having both outboard type drives and inboard/outboard type stern drives.

Patent number: 5238432

Filing date: Oct 17, 1991

Issue date: Aug 24, 1993

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15

Powered boat hull - Hydrofoil craft, particularly a method of economically modifying a conventional hull by means of foils to obtain enhanced lift and rough water stability.

Patent number: 4951591

Filing date: Dec 13, 1989

Issue date: Aug 28, 1990

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16

Boat motor replacement skeg - An outboard motor replacement skeg which is thin and flat and has a cavity formed in one of its edges is disclosed.

Patent number: 5277632

Filing date: Feb 16, 1993

Issue date: Jan 11, 1994

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17

Bottom exhaust high speed boat - A bottom exhaust type high speed boat has a hull including a grooved bottom.

Patent number: 4509927

Filing date: Mar 9, 1983

Issue date: Apr 9, 1985

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18

Foldable boat - A foldable boat includes a bottom panel, a pair of side panels foldably and sealedly affixed on two sides of the bottom panel.

Patent number: 6240872

Filing date: Jun 8, 2000

Issue date: Jun 5, 2001

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19

Boat trailer lift - An attachment for a boat trailer to enable a boat carried by the trailer to be raised and stored above the water.

Patent number: 4779888

Filing date: Mar 30, 1987

Issue date: Oct 25, 1988

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20

Replaceable and foldable blade boat propeller - A boat propeller wherein the blades are easily removable from the propeller hub on an individual basis to permit quick replacement for repair and/or for substituting blades of different pitch comprising a hub adapted to fit over and attach to a drive shaft.

Patent number: 5372480

Filing date: Sep 22, 1993

Issue date: Dec 13, 1994

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21

Boat trailer with closed longitudinal support beams - A frame of a boat trailer includes longitudinal support beams that extend from a tongue.

Patent number: 6854755

Filing date: Jun 19, 2003

Issue date: Feb 15, 2005

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22

Propellor shaft coupling - A coupling receives a steeply tapered end of a propellor shaft and is secured thereto with a lock nut held in place with a set screw.

Patent number: 5306093

Filing date: Sep 23, 1992

Issue date: Apr 26, 1994

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23

Inflatable boat with demountable transom - An inflatable boat having parallel side sponsons joined by a floor and hag a rigid keelson member includes a demountable transom capable of supporting an outboard motor.

Patent number: 4449473

Filing date: Oct 29, 1982

Issue date: May 22, 1984

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24

Retractable arch system for a boat - A retractable arch system for a boat is provided that includes at least four substantially vertical legs for permanent installation on the boat.

Patent number: 7216604

Filing date: Oct 7, 2005

Issue date: May 15, 2007

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25

Boat propulsion unit with a propulsion propeller arranged under the boat's bottom -  A boat propulsion unit has a propeller which can be withdrawn into a sleeve to a position above the plane of the boat's bottom and enclosed by a cover plate.

 Patent number: 5397255

Filing date: Feb 28, 1994

Issue date: Mar 14, 1995

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26

Modular maritime dock design - A maritime dock structure including a plurality of hollow modules each having a buoyancy force associated therewith.

Patent number: 6082931

Filing date: Jun 22, 1998

Issue date: Jul 4, 2000

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27

Air thrust propulsion boat-drive train - A drive train for an air thrust propulsion boat which has a propeller encircled by a noise reducing and efficiency increasing shroud.

Patent number: 5082465

Filing date: May 25, 1989

Issue date: Jan 21, 1992

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28

 Boat storage, shipping system and support therefore - A system for storage and shipping of boats availing of a series of adjustable support units which are connected by flexible elements.

Patent number: 4756642

Filing date: Mar 19, 1987

Issue date: Jul 12, 1988

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29

Boat hull and propulsion system or the like - A device, such as a boat hull and propulsion system, for effecting relative movement of a flowable substance, such as water.

Patent number: 5205765

Filing date: Nov 27, 1990

Issue date: Apr 27, 1993

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30

Modular rigid inflatable boat structure - A boat of the type having a rigid hull portion is provided about the periphery thereof with a slotted retaining channel for receiving a first boltrope of a shroud which is provided on an opposite edge with a second, parallel boltrope.

Patent number: 4724792

Filing date: Apr 10, 1986

Issue date: Feb 16, 1988

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31

Jet boat with improved hull design and engine placement - A jet powered boat may be provided with a water monitor for fire fighting purposes.

Patent number: 6343964

Filing date: Nov 14, 2000

Issue date: Feb 5, 2002

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32

Deck connection system for a boat - A system for detachably connecting a wing to a pair of spaced hollow hulls to complete a deck assembly for a boat, such as a catamaran.

Patent number: 4823717

Filing date: Mar 15, 1988

Issue date: Apr 25, 1989

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33

Power drive assembly for outboard engines - Marine power drive assemblies for converting conventional outboard engines to operate with inboard engine characteristics.

Patent number: 4768983

Filing date: Mar 3, 1987

Issue date: Sep 6, 1988

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34

Boat hull protector - A protector for the bow portion of a boat hull consists of a sheet having a rear-opening pocket adapted to engage the prow of the boat.

Patent number: 5899166

Filing date: Apr 29, 1998

Issue date: May 4, 1999

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35

Hydraulic power system for a boat - An hydraulic power system for a boat comprising a marine thruster assembly.

Patent number: 5476400

Filing date: Oct 12, 1994

Issue date: Dec 19, 1995

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36

Boat propulsion and rudder device of the type having a surface propeller - This device includes: a motor situated inside the boat and comprising an output shaft.

Patent number: 5549493

Filing date: Dec 7, 1994

Issue date: Aug 27, 1996

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37

Boat with enhanced access to engine and stern - A boat having an inboard/outboard drive unit is disclosed herein.

Patent number: 6935266

Filing date: Jan 13, 2004

Issue date: Aug 30, 2005

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38

Boat hull and method of making same - A ship hull is formed of a plurality of transverse and generally parallel ribs and a plurality of side-by-side plank-forming and generally parallel elongated profiles each having two generally parallel londigitudinal edges abutting the edges of the adjacent profiles.

Patent number: 4565146

Filing date: Oct 13, 1981

Issue date: Jan 21, 1986

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39

Modular watercraft system - A modular watercraft system includes large and small hulls, and a variety of connectors for enabling the manual assembly of any one of several multi-hull watercraft, for example an outrigger, a catamaran, or a trimaran.

Patent number: 5582126

Filing date: Apr 28, 1995

Issue date: Dec 10, 1996

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40

Marine safety system for positive-pressure engines - A safety system associated with an engine of a marine vessel wherein the safety system includes a blower, a control unit, and a plurality of sensors.

Patent number: 5069154

Filing date: Jul 27, 1990

Issue date: Dec 3, 1991

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41

Propulsion system for boats - A propelling machine is configured curved- tubular, on a ship bottom, with a front casing having a suction inlet

Patent number: 6786167

Filing date: Jun 7, 2002

Issue date: Sep 7, 2004

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42

Small watercraft and outboard motor - A small watercraft and outboard motor are configured so that operator-activated command signals are communicated from a control unit in the hull of the watercraft via a local area network to engine component actuators in the outboard motor.

Patent number: 6910927

Filing date: Oct 24, 2002

Issue date: Jun 28, 2005

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43

Marine propulsion apparatus - Marine propulsion apparatus comprising an engine mounted within a buoyant enclosure, which is adapted to be connected to a marine vessel, which requires propulsion.

Patent number: 5184563

Filing date: Feb 11, 1991

Issue date: Feb 9, 1993

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44

Power take-off system for marine engines - The present invention relates to a new type of marine power take-off system which increases the performance of the V-hull type boat, while not increasing the engine compartment space.

Patent number: 4595371

Filing date: Dec 30, 1983

Issue date: Jun 17, 1986

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45

Maritime wind shift alarm system and method of detecting wind shifts - A system is provided for detecting wind shifts on a floating vessel which is anchored.

Patent number: 4673924

Filing date: Oct 4, 1985

Issue date: Jun 16, 1987

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46

Method of protecting the hulls of marine vessels from fouling - The inventive method involves the application of thin metallic films to the hull of a boat.

Patent number: 4772344

Filing date: Dec 4, 1986

Issue date: Sep 20, 1988

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47

In-water dry dock system - The present invention provides a simple system for in-water dry docking pleasure boats using existing boat slips.

Patent number: 5549070

Filing date: Aug 23, 1994

Issue date: Aug 27, 1996

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48

In-water dry dock system with removable centerline insert  - The present invention provides a simple system for in-water dry docking pleasure boats using existing boat slips.

Patent number: 5860765

Filing date: Feb 9, 1996

Issue date: Jan 19, 1999

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49

Battery charge managing system - A modification kit for the addition of an auxiliary battery charge management system for a marine or land vehicle having a starting battery and an auxiliary battery system.

Patent number: 5896022

Filing date: Sep 8, 1997

Issue date: Apr 20, 1999

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50

Frame and sliding retractable top assembly for boats - The present invention overcomes the drawbacks associated with earlier top designs by providing a rigid frame at a sufficient height above the boat to permit persons to move about comfortably beneath it.

Patent number: 5983824

Filing date: Apr 15, 1999

Issue date: Nov 16, 1999

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