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US 2002/0134210 A1Published application
Apparatus for cutting and sorting diagnostic strips
AssigneeKinematic Automation, Inc.
InventorsDavid L. Carlberg, Ford Garratt, Ted Meigs
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Abstract
A bilge drainage system for a boat having a through-transom drainage passageway has a through-transom pipe connected to an externally-mounted flange and connected internally to a manually or electronically operated stopcock located near the bottom of the bilge such that the stopcock may be opened, and bilge water drained to the sea, when the boat is traveling through the water on a plane.
Claims12
A bilge drainage system comprising:
- a stopcock and a pipe, said stopcock having a valve, an entry point, and an exit point, said entry point being located near the lowest point of the interior of a boat when said boat is traveling on a plane, said exit point being attached to said pipe, said pipe extending to the lower portion of the rear transom of said boat and being adjacent a hole extending through said transom, said valve being actuable to an open position when said boat is on a plane and to a closed position when said boat is not on a plane, such that water within the interior of said boat may be drained through said stopcock and said pipe when said boat is on a plane.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.