Aquatic vegetation separator
OwnerStephen Landry, Jr.inventor
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Abstract
An Aquatic vegetation cutter adaptable to the bow of small work boats having rotatable, cultivator type disks on converging angles disposed along each side of the bow, extending partially below the water line, positioned in a manner whereby forward movement of the boat tends to rotate the disks thereby cutting and parting the vegetation allowing the boat to pass unobstructed, without drawing the cut vegetation into the propulsion unit intake. A second embodiment provides a method of power driving the disks in a forward or reverse direction.
Claims11
A cutting apparatus mounted to a boat's bow for severation of aquatic vegetation thereby opening a path for a boat to pass comprising:
- a) cutting disks juxtaposed at oblique angles to each other;
- b) an arbor means for allowing said disks to rotate freely;
- c) a means for supporting and positioning said arbor;
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- d) a means for pivotally adapting said supporting and positioning means to a boat's bow.
An aquatic vegetation severator adaptable to a work boat comprising:
- a) at least two cultivator type disks, juxtaposed at oblique angles to each other;
- b) mounting means for adapting said cultivator type disks to a boat's bow;
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- c) arbor means for allowing said cultivator type disks to rotate freely about their central axis.
A method of cutting and separating aquatic vegetation to allow unobstructed passage of a marine vessel comprising the steps of:
- a) mounting a set of rotatable, disks juxtaposed at oblique angles to each other to a marine vessel's bow;
- b) lowering said disks to a point partially below said marine vessel's water line;
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- c) propelling said vessel through aquatic vegetation, cutting and parting said vegetation to each side as said marine vessel passes.
A method of clearing a passage through floating aquatic plants comprising the steps of:
- a) attaching a set of rotatable disks juxtaposed at oblique angles to each other to a boat's bow in a manner whereby a portion of said disks are below the water line of said boat when in a working position;
- b) rotatably driving said disk;
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- c) propelling said boat and said rotating disks through said aquatic plants.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.