Inflatable boat
AssigneeKellwood Company
InventorsRobert Roger Cantwell, Harold J. Pohl
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Abstract
An inflatable boat comprising inner inflatable tubes in an outer tube, the inner tubes and the outer tube being fabricated from flat sheet stock by a method involving stitching a bottom seam of the outer tube with the outer tube in place on the inflated inner tubes.
Claims4
An inflatable boat comprising an outer tube having a stern section, side sections extending forward from opposite ends of the stern section at opposite sides of the boat, and bow sections angled toward one another from the forward ends of the side sections and meeting generally in the fore-to-aft central plane of the boat, and a plurality of inner inflatable tubes arranged end-to-end in said outer tube, each inner tube comprising a straight length of air-impervious flexible sheet material formed into a tube with its longitudinal margins brought together and sealed to form a longitudinal seam, and its ends sealed together to form end seams, each inner tube extending through a plurality of said sections, each inner tube having an inflation valve and said outer tube having openings for said inflation valves, and each inner tube being removable, when deflated, from the outer tube through the respective opening, the stern section, each side section and each half of the bow section of the outer tube each comprising a separate tubular section of said outer tube material, said separate tubular sections being stitched together at respective abutting ends thereof.
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