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US 2026/0167305 A1Published application
Marine vessel
AssigneeWork Marine, LLC
InventorsGregory M. Dunlap, Todd Summer Flowers, Ronald Allen Hodge, Samuel R. Dwyer
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Abstract
A marine vessel may include a set of buoyant hull sections, a boom arm integrally formed with the set of buoyant hull sections and supported by buoyant forces applied to the set of buoyant hull sections when the marine vessel is deployed on water, and a coupler mechanism integrally provided on a distal end of the boom arm and configured to interchangeably couple with one or more attachable implements.
Claims20
A marine vessel comprising:
- a set of buoyant hull sections;
- a boom arm integrally formed with the set of buoyant hull sections and supported by buoyant forces applied to the set of buoyant hull sections when the marine vessel is deployed on water;
- and
- a coupler mechanism integrally provided on a distal end of the boom arm and configured to interchangeably couple with one or more attachable implements.
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A marine vessel comprising:
- a set of buoyant hull sections;
- a boom arm integrally formed with the set of buoyant hull sections and supported by buoyant forces applied to the set of buoyant hull sections when the marine vessel is deployed on water;
- a coupler mechanism integrally provided on a distal end of the boom arm and configured to interchangeably couple with one or more attachable implements;
- and
- a crane winch cable routed along the boom arm and exiting the distal end of the boom arm such that operation of the coupler mechanism is not impeded, wherein the crane winch cable is configurable between a first winch operational mode in which the crane winch cable is used in combination with the coupler mechanism and a second winch operational mode in which the crane winch cable and the coupler mechanism are used independently.
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A marine vessel comprising:
- a set of buoyant hull sections including:
- a central buoyant hull section;
- and
- a set of auxiliary buoyant hull sections rotatably coupled to the central buoyant hull section along axes parallel to a central longitudinal axis of the central buoyant hull section by a first set of hinges;
- and
- a boom arm integrally formed with the set of buoyant hull sections and supported by buoyant forces applied to the set of buoyant hull sections when the marine vessel is deployed on water,
- wherein:
- the set of auxiliary buoyant hull sections are configured to rotate around the first set of hinges between a deployed hull position and a stowed hull position,
- in the deployed hull position, the set of auxiliary buoyant hull sections are located adjacent to the central buoyant hull section such that a set of top surfaces of the set of auxiliary buoyant hull sections and a top surface of the central buoyant hull section are oriented upward in a vertical direction perpendicular to the top surface of the central buoyant hull section,
- in the stowed hull position, the set of auxiliary buoyant hull sections are located above the top surface of the central buoyant hull section in the vertical direction such that the set of top surfaces of the set of auxiliary buoyant hull sections are oriented downward to at least partially face the top surface of the central buoyant hull section, and
- the boom arm includes a coupler mechanism integrally provided on a distal end of the boom arm and configured to interchangeably couple with one or more attachable implements.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.