Buoys – rafts – and aquatic devices – Buoy – Having means to control attitude or position
Patent
1993-03-11
1994-04-05
Kashnikow, Andres
Buoys, rafts, and aquatic devices
Buoy
Having means to control attitude or position
441 30, B63B 2218
Patent
active
052999629
ABSTRACT:
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 carrying the line has shaft portions rotatable in the bearings. The reel is a buoyant hollow body also formed of flexible plastics material and is provided with a fluid inlet for inflation from an axially collapsed state, in which the reel and its shaft portions can be fitted between the side portions, to an inflated state wherein the shaft portions are rotatably held in the bearings.
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Saulnier Kenneth
Van Leeuwen Hubert J.
Avila Stephen P.
Kashnikow Andres
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