Hull scrubber device for a water vessel
OwnerSigismund Schreiberinventor
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Abstract
A hull scrubber device for a boat is deployed into an operative mode when the boat travels through the water. The device includes a mounting pole and a flexible hull scrubber head attached to the mounting pole and tethered via a tether rope and a swivel mounting in the hull scrubber head. The device is structured to rotate or spin and hit against the boat hull as the boat moves through the water. The scrubber head is a flat-like spiral disk when in a storage, inoperative mode. This disk assumes the shape of a cylinder when hull scrubber device is fully deployed in the water. Brush elements, felt pad elements, and scraper elements are mounted on an outer edge surface of the hull scrubber head for cleaning the hull. Related methods of cleaning a boat hull are also disclosed.
Claims11
A hull scrubber device for use on a water vessel having a deck and a hull, the hull scrubber device, comprising:
- a mounting pole having a base end and a distal end;
- a tether rope having a first end attached to the distal end of the mounting pole and a second end spaced away from the first end of the tether rope and spaced away from the hull;
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- a hull scrubber head having a first end attached to the tether rope and a distal end spaced away from the hull, the hull scrubber head being made of a flexible material and having an apex and a base, and structured to be collapsible into a flat coil spring shape with the apex being encircled by the base when the hull scrubber device is in an inoperative mode and essentially in a conical cylinder shape when in an operative mode and subject to the pressure of the water as the water vessel moves through the water.
A method for cleaning a hull of a water vessel, the steps comprising:
- providing a hull scrubber device which is attached to a mounting pole and which is extendable outwardly from a deck of the water vessel and having a base end removably fixed to the deck adjacent to a hull of the water vessel and a distal end spaced away from the end of the hull;
- a tether rope attached to the distal end of the mounting pole;
- and a hull scrubber head having a first end attached to the tether rope, the hull scrubber head being flexible and which hull scrubber head initially assumes a flat coil spring shape when in an inoperative mode and assumes essentially a conical cylinder shape when in a fully operative mode and subject to the pressure of the water as the vessel moves through the water;
- deploying the hull scrubber head over the bow of the water vessel and below a water line to position the hull scrubber head closely adjacent to the bow of the water vessel and below the water line;
- moving the water vessel through the water;
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- causing the hull scrubber head to assume the shape of a cylinder and to spin against the hull of the water vessel below the water line as the water vessel moves through the water for cleaning the hull of the boat.
A method of cleaning the hull of a water vessel, the steps comprising:
- providing a flexible hull scrubber device having a hull scrubber head with an apex and a base and with a flat coil spring shape when in an inoperative mode;
- placing the hull scrubber head into water forward of the water vessel and spaced away from the forward end of the water vessel;
- moving the water vessel forward in the water;
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- causing the flexible hull scrubber head to transform into a conical cylinder shape when in an operative mode and to come into spinning contact with the hull of the water vessel by pressure of the water through which the water vessel is moving for cleaning of the boat hull.
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