Watercraft
AssigneeBrighamfloats, LLC
InventorsHenry Day Brigham, III, Carter Michel Brigham, Inna Alesina
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Abstract
A watercraft with a rigid outer hull having a substantially circular shape in plan view and a rounded bottom surface for contacting a body of liquid, and a rigid top surface disposed opposite said bottom surface and integrally formed with the outer hull, the top surface having an annular stability portion with convex walls in cross-section and a recessed flat-bottomed deck portion adapted to receive a person, and an edge of the recessed deck portion being disposed inwardly from an outermost edge of the top portion by a distance, and a method for using same.
Claims20
A watercraft comprising:
- a rigid outer hull having a round shape in plan view and a bottom surface for contacting a body of liquid;
- and
- a rigid top surface disposed opposite said bottom surface and integrally formed with said outer hull,
- wherein said top surface comprises an annular stability portion having convex walls in cross-section and a recessed flat-bottomed deck portion adapted to receive a person, and
- wherein an edge of said recessed deck portion is disposed inwardly from an outermost edge of said outer hull by a distance as measured from said outermost edge to a center of the top surface in plan view.
A method of movement upon a surface of a body of liquid, comprising:
- providing a watercraft comprising a rigid outer hull having a round shape in plan view and a bottom surface for contacting a body of liquid, and a rigid top surface disposed opposite said bottom surface and integrally formed with said outer hull, wherein said top surface comprises an annular stability portion having convex walls in cross-section and a recessed flat-bottomed deck portion adapted to receive a person, wherein said recessed deck portion comprises a plurality of arcuately-shaped concavities disposed in a side wall of said recessed deck portion and each constructed to contour a knee or foot of the person so as to allow for use of the watercraft in a seated or kneeling position, and wherein an edge of said recessed deck portion is disposed inwardly from an outermost edge of said top portion by a distance as measured from said outermost edge to a center of the top surface in plan view;
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- paddling said liquid using a sculling motion to propel said watercraft laterally across a surface of said liquid or paddling said liquid in a stroking manner to cause rotation of said watercraft upon the surface of said liquid.
A watercraft comprising:
- a rigid outer hull having a round shape in plan view and a bottom surface for contacting a body of liquid;
- and
- a rigid top surface disposed opposite said bottom surface and integrally formed with said outer hull,
- wherein said top surface comprises an annular stability portion having at least one wall portion which is convex in cross-section and a recessed deck capable of supporting a person, and
- wherein an edge of said recessed deck is disposed inwardly from an outermost edge of said outer hull.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.