Ships – Displacement-type hull – Multiple hulls
Patent
1988-09-30
1989-11-28
Basinger, Sherman D.
Ships
Displacement-type hull
Multiple hulls
4494, 4495, 114 77A, B63B 110, B63B 308
Patent
active
048830127
ABSTRACT:
A recreational water craft useable as a vehicle and as a swimming facility has first and second floatable components, the first having a deck supported by a pair of compartmented pontoons. The compartments have water and air inlet and discharge facilities and are adapted for flooding and blowing by connection with a control system that includes a pressurized air source and valves for pressurizing and bleeding air from the compartments so as to move the first component between a first position with the deck above water and a second position with the deck submerged. The second floatable component has a main floatable section with an annular pontoon that rests on the deck during the vehicle mode of use as when the first component is at the first position. The pontoon has a vertical opening and which surrounds the deck passenger area. A floatable aft section is pivotally connected to the main section and provides a mounting place for an outboard motor. To convert to the swimming pool mode of use, the compartments of the first component are flooded so that the component sinks and becomes suspended from the second component which assumes a floating position. In this mode the two components cooperate in defining the surface area, bottom portion and side wall portions of the swimming facility.
REFERENCES:
patent: 1054505 (1913-02-01), Butters
patent: 1583127 (1926-05-01), Curtis
patent: 3934530 (1976-01-01), Kossa et al.
Basinger Sherman D.
Martin Roger L.
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