Buoys – rafts – and aquatic devices – Buoy – Marker buoy
Patent
1986-06-20
1987-12-15
Basinger, Sherman
Buoys, rafts, and aquatic devices
Buoy
Marker buoy
441 23, 441 27, B63B 2210
Patent
active
047130318
ABSTRACT:
The device includes a tubular housing open at one end and closed at the other end by an adhesively attached cup-shaped cap. Within the closed end is a well having a bottom formed with a slot therein. Contained within the well is a water-soluble element, such as an aspirin tablet, which prevents a bobber from being discharged by a slightly compressed coil spring through the open end of the housing. A staple-like tongue on one end of the bobber interferingly engages the aspirin tablet until the tablet becomes dissolved by water entering the housing, as it does when the device is submerged. The bobber has a flange at the inner end from which the tongue projects, whereas the other end of the bobber is flared. Both of these ends are provided with angularly offset notches to facilitate the passage of water through the open end of the housing, through the slot, and into contact with the aspirin tablet. When the tablet dissolves, then the slightly compressed spring causes the bobber to be ejected through the housing's open end. It then floats to the surface to provide a visual indication as to where the submerged fishing rod or other article has come to rest on the bottom of the body of water. The device is held in place by a flexible strap passing through an opening in a longitudinally directed mounting rib. Additionally, pressure sensitive tape has one adhesive surface in contact with the rib and a second such surface in contact with the fishing rod (or other item). The same pressure sensitive tape fixedly anchors the free end of the line, the major portion of which is enwrapped about the bobber. The line passes through a small hole in the housing.
REFERENCES:
patent: 2479098 (1949-08-01), Cardinal
patent: 2528799 (1950-11-01), Strong
patent: 3624849 (1971-12-01), Brannaker
patent: 4126907 (1978-11-01), Fish
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