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US 12,747,005 B2Granted
Buoyant trim tab
AssigneeUltralight Boatworks, LLC
InventorBrian Scott Little
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Abstract
A buoyant trim tab comprising a shell, wherein the shell comprises a top and a bottom, and an insert, wherein the insert comprises a foam section, wherein the foam section comprises a styrene acrylo nitrile foam and further wherein the foam section comprises a low-density subsection and a high-density subsection, and wherein the buoyant trim tab is capable of floating the buoyant trim tab, an actuator, and any components used to mount the buoyant trim tab to a boat.
Claims10
A buoyant trim tab, comprising:
- a shell, wherein the shell comprises
- a top, wherein the top comprises a lip and further wherein the top comprises a flat, horizontal shape roughly parallel to the ground, and
- a bottom, wherein the bottom comprises a base, wherein the base comprises a flat, horizontal shape, roughly parallel to the ground and further wherein the base comprises one or more layers of a composite material;
- and
- an insert, wherein the insert comprises
- a foam section, wherein the foam section comprises a styrene acrylo nitrile foam and further wherein the foam section comprises a low-density subsection and a high-density subsection, wherein the low-density subsection surrounds the high-density subsection, and
- a high-density composite ledge section;
- wherein the buoyant trim tab is capable of floating the buoyant trim tab, an actuator, and any components used to mount the buoyant trim tab.
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A method of fabricating a buoyant trim tab, comprising:
- providing a base, wherein the base comprises one or more layers of carbon fiber, wherein the one or more layers of carbon fiber are placed on a horizontal surface, and further wherein part of the base forms the edges of a lip;
- cutting the one or more layers of carbon fiber;
- placing an insert on top of the base, wherein a ledge is in contact with the base and further wherein the insert is centered on top of the base;
- applying one or more layers of carbon fiber over the insert and the base, wherein a layer of resin is applied between each of the one or more layers of carbon fiber;
- shaping the one or more layers of carbon fiber to take the shape of the insert;
- shaping the lip;
- and
- shaping the one or more layers of carbon fiber after the one or more layers of carbon fiber have cured.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.