Anchor system
AssigneeHotwire Development, LLC
InventorsJeffrey S. Doss, Jason Swanson, Joshua Wedge
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Abstract
An anchor system with a bridle substrate and harness configured to attach to an anchor line. An outer bladder surrounds an inner bladder for coupling on top of the bridle substrate. Water enters the anchor system through a water inlet that feeds directly to the inner bladder and fills that first. Water then overflows from the inner bladder to the outer bladder to fill that second. The inner bladder provides stability and is positioned with a majority of its volume closer to an uphill end of the anchor bladder while the outer bladder is positioned with a majority of its volume closer to a downhill end of the anchor bladder. Reinforcement connectors for each bladder resist deformation of the bladders to resist movement of the anchor bladder while filling.
Claims20
A method of anchoring a houseboat to a shore:
- providing a plurality of water bladder anchors, each of the plurality of water bladder anchors respectively comprising a bladder shell with a water inlet and at least one water drain, a bridle substrate, a bridle harness coupled to the bridle substrate and including at least two harness straps on each of at least two adjacent sides of the bridle substrate, and a first bladder volume and a second bladder volume separated from the first bladder volume by at least one wall, wherein a majority of the second bladder volume is positioned closer to a first end of each water bladder anchor than a majority of the first bladder volume:
- individually positioning each of the plurality of water bladder anchors atop its respective bridle substrate adjacent a body of water in which a houseboat is in the body of water near the shore with the first end at an elevation lower than the second end;
- individually filling each of the plurality of water bladder anchors separately by passing water from the body of water in which the houseboat is floating through a pump into the water inlet into of the bladder shell at a flow rate of between 150-300 gallons/minute, wherein water enters the second bladder volume before water enters the first bladder volume, and water overflows from the second bladder volume into the first bladder volume:
- attaching a separate anchor line of the houseboat to each of the plurality of water bladder anchors by connecting each separate anchor line to the bridle harness of each water bladder anchor of the plurality of water bladder anchors;
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- securing the houseboat to the shore by tightening each separate anchor line.
A method of anchoring a boat to a shore:
- providing at least one water bladder anchor configured to be filled with water and comprising a bladder shell with a water inlet and at least one water drain, a bridle substrate, and a bridle harness coupled to the bridle substrate and having at least one harness strap on at least two sides of the bridle substrate;
- positioning the at least one water bladder anchor on top of the bridle substrate on a shore adjacent a body of water in which a boat is in the body of water near the shore;
- filling the at least one water bladder anchor with water through a pump drawing water from the body of water in which the boat is floating, and pumping water into the bladder shell of the at least one water bladder anchor;
- attaching an anchor line of the boat to the at least one water bladder anchor by connecting the anchor line to the bridle harness of the at least one water bladder anchor;
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- securing the boat to the shore by tightening the anchor line.
A method of anchoring a boat to a shore:
- providing at least one water bladder anchor configured to be filled with water and comprising a bladder shell with a water inlet and a bridle harness beneath the at least one water bladder anchor, the bridle harness comprising at least one harness strap;
- positioning the at least one water bladder anchor on a shore adjacent a body of water in which a boat is floating near the shore;
- filling the at least one water bladder anchor by pumping water into the bladder shell through the water inlet;
- attaching an anchor line of the boat to the at least one water bladder anchor by connecting the anchor line to the harness of the at least one water bladder anchor;
- securing the boat to the shore by tightening the anchor line.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.