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US 11,691,452 B2Granted
Tablet device for underwater or severe environment
OwnerMark Lloyd Haganinventor
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Abstract
A tablet-like device is configured to have a slightly negative buoyancy and to hold a sheet of waterproof synthetic paper, or another removable, waterproof recording sheet, onto which notes or messages or sketches can be recorded via a writing implement, in an underwater or marine environment, or another extreme or severe environment.
Claims15
A tablet device configured for an underwater or extreme environment, comprising:
- a support palette to support a removable, waterproof note-recording medium sheet on a front surface of the support palette;
- and
- a frame assembly including a front frame member and a back frame member, each of the front frame member and the back frame member extending longitudinally beyond a top edge and a bottom edge of the support palette,
- the front frame member having a frame portion circumscribing an opening portion through which information recorded on an information-bearing portion of the waterproof note-recording medium sheet is to be visually discerned and through which the writing implement can contact said information-bearing portion of the waterproof note-recording medium sheet to apply notes or markings thereon,
- wherein the removable, waterproof note-recording medium sheet is a sheet folded over an edge of the support palette and onto at least most of a back surface of the support palette.
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A tablet device configured for an underwater or extreme environment, comprising:
- a support palette to support a removable, waterproof note-recording medium sheet on a front surface of the support palette;
- and
- a frame assembly including a front frame member and a back frame member, each of the front frame member and the back frame member extending longitudinally beyond a top edge and a bottom edge of the support palette,
- the front frame member having a frame portion circumscribing an opening portion through which information recorded on an information-bearing portion of the waterproof note-recording medium sheet is to be visually discerned and through which a writing implement can contact said information-bearing portion of the waterproof note-recording medium sheet to apply notes or markings thereon,
- wherein the removable, waterproof note-recording medium sheet is a sheet of waterproof synthetic paper folded over the support palette to cover most of the front surface of the support palette and most of the back surface of the support palette, and the front and back frame members of the frame assembly are configured to hold the sheet of waterproof synthetic paper securely in place on the front and back surfaces, respectively, of the support palette, when the support palette bearing the sheet of waterproof synthetic paper has been inserted in the frame assembly.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.