CA2755146C - Family boat - Google Patents

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CA2755146C
CA2755146C CA 2755146 CA2755146A CA2755146C CA 2755146 C CA2755146 C CA 2755146C CA 2755146 CA2755146 CA 2755146 CA 2755146 A CA2755146 A CA 2755146A CA 2755146 C CA2755146 C CA 2755146C
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An family boat that has couple of novelties regarding better comfort and privacy. First novelty is a cabin built on top of the boat bow, being used as a bathroom or other purposes. The area of boat bow is not used, being a wasted space. A cabin built on the top of bow using transparent materials will provide us with a cabin that can be used for different purposes and also will allow us to have visibility to drive the boat Another novelty is a foldable canopy that can provide an overhead shelter for different areas of the boat, or extended canopy that provides bigger overhead shelter or can provide fully enclosed space by canopy. Another novelty is a frame that supports canopy and allows canopy to provide all those features. All these improvements provide a simple boat with bathroom, overhead shelter or fully enclosed space as big as the boat itself.

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Family boat Description Boats have been used for centuries for transportation, being part of day to day life for many people across the world.
These days many families and individuals use boat for recreational purpose.
There are expensive and heavy cruisers boats or yachts that provide the owners with all comfort and privacy they want, that include bathroom with toilet and shower, kitchen, bedroom, cockpit with full boat controls .
Those boats are not for every one , they are expensive to maintain too.
Most of the recreational boats are simple boats , not too big , easy to be towed by normal pickup trucks or smaller cars.
But those simple boats provide only a few seats or benches , a stirring mechanism and maybe a little canopy.
There is not much comfort and privacy in a simple boat and also the amount of time that can be spent aboard is limited.
Many boat builders or individuals tried to provide some comfort on simple boats by using portable toilets or temporary changing rooms, but this is just to little.
The main problem with providing comfort on a simple boat is there is not enough space on boat.
Is very hard to find an area on a simple boat where it can be built a full size permanent cabin to be used as a bathroom with toilet , shower ,sink.
My solution to this problem is to build a permanent cabin on top of the bow of boat.
This cabin can be built entirely or partially of transparent materials, so it will not impede visibility during boat driving.
Use of some curtains inside cabin will provide bathroom user with privacy.
Many times families or individuals that go on water with a boat get very often unpleasant surprises from weather.
Rain , wind, too strong sun or getting too cold are situations that can occur wile a family is out there on water.
A simple boat has little or no protection against these unpleasant weather situations.
My solution to protect boat users against weather problems is a foldable canopy that provides different size overhead shelter.
Also the canopy can provide partially or fully enclosed space on the boat, enclosing a part of the boat or entire boat.
Built from light , strong , water proof materials , the canopy will not be a burden for the boat, but it will be a very useful improvement of the boat providing shelter from elements and even a room on a part of boat or as big as the boat, to accommodate people for rest or over night.
It is very important that canopy during the use not to be in people way, to impede people doing their activities on the boat.
My solution to have a strong canopy that stays out of people's way is a frame that supports the canopy without using gunwales of the boat for support.
There are only two spots where the frame for canopy is fastened to the boat ; the top of the cabin that is built on boat bow and the transom of boat.
When the canopy is partially extended, the frame is fastened only to the top of bow cabin.
When the canopy is fully extended the frame is also fastened to the transom through an U shape element that slides up and down along transom.
The extension elements of the frame allow the canopy to extend laterally .
When the canopy is used as a partial overhead shelter, the frame that supports canopy has no contact with boat gunwales , so people in the boat can do freely their activities .
Only when canopy is used as an overhead shelter over the entire boat, the frame boat is fastened to the transom lateral ends trough an U shape element that slides up and down along transom.
Drawings description Fig. I
represents a simple boat having a cabin built on top of the bow.
There is top view of the boat , longitudinal section of the boat and section A-A cutaway view.
1- cabin floor , 2 - cabin, 3- toilet, 4 - a person, - bow, 6 - boat floor , 7 - gunwales , 8 - transom , 20- boat bottom Fig. 2 The boat represented here has the bow different then one in fig.1 There is a top view of the boat , a longitudinal section of the boat and section A-A cutaway view.
1- cabin floor , 2 - cabin , 3- toilet , 4 - a person , 5 - bow , 6 - boat floor , 7 - gunwales , 8 - transom , 20- boat bottom Fig. 3 This boat has the bow different then the others in fig. I and fig. 2.
There is a top view of the boat , a longitudinal section of the boat and section A-A cutaway view.
1- cabin floor , 2 - cabin, 3- toilet, 4 - a person, 5 - bow , 7 - gunwales , 8 - transom , 20- boat bottom Fig. 4 represents a boat having a cabin built on top of the bow and the canopy partially extended along boat.
2 - cabin , 5 - bow , 6 - boat floor , 7 - gunwales , 8 - transom , 9 - foldable canopy Fig. 5 represents a boat having a cabin built on top of the bow and the canopy extended over entire boat.
2 - cabin , 5 - bow , 6 - boat floor , 7 - gunwales , 8 - transom , 9 - foldable canopy , 10 - U shape element that supports the canopy and slides up an down along ends of transom.

Fig. 6 represents a boat having a cabin built on top of the bow and the canopy extended outside of the back of the boat.
2 - cabin , 5 - bow , 6 - boat floor , 7 - gunwales , 8 - transom , 9 - foldable canopy, 10 - U shape element Fig. 7 represents a boat having a cabin built on top of the bow and the canopy partially extended along the boat and also the canopy laterally extended over the sides of the boat.
2 - cabin , 5 - bow , 6 - boat floor , 7 - gunwales , 8 - transom , 9 - foldable canopy Fig. 8 represents a boat having a cabin built on top of the bow and the canopy extended over entire boat and also the canopy laterally extended over the sides of the boat.
2 - cabin , 5 - bow , 6 - boat floor , 7 - gunwales , 8 - transom , 9 - foldable canopy, 10 - U shape element Fig. 9 represents a boat having a cabin built on top of the bow and the canopy extended outside of the back of the boat and also the canopy laterally extended over the sides of the boat.
2 - cabin , 5 - bow , 6 - boat floor , 7 - gunwales , 8 - transom , 9 - foldable canopy , 10 - U shape element Fig. 10 represents a boat having a cabin built on top of the bow and the canopy forms an enclosed space on a part of the boat.
2 - cabin , 5 - bow , 6 - boat floor , 7 - gunwales , 8 - transom , 9 - foldable canopy Fig. 11 represents a boat having a cabin built on top of the bow and the canopy forms an enclosed space on the entire boat.
2 - cabin , 5 - bow , 6 - boat floor , 7 - gunwales , 8 - transom , 9 - foldable canopy Fig. 12 represents a boat having a cabin built on top of the bow and the canopy forms an enclosed space on the entire boat. Also the boat has a hull door for an easier access in the boat when it seats on trailer.
2 - cabin , 5 - bow , 6 - boat floor , 11- hull door , 12 - stairs Fig. 13 represents a boat having a cabin built on top of the bow and the frame that supports the canopy.
2 - cabin , 5 - bow , 7 - gunwales , 8 - transom , 10 - U shape element that slides up an down along ends of transom and also accommodates sliding elements 20 14 - frame elements that accommodates extension elements 17 15 - frame elements that accommodates extension elements 18 17- extension elements, 18 - extension elements that accommodate , out over transom extension elements 19, 20 - bow Fig.14 represents a boat having a cabin built on top of the bow and the the top of the cabin is extended over a part of the boat forming an hard top. Also the canopy forms an enclosed space on the entire boat 2 - cabin , 5 - bow , 7 - gunwales , 8 - transom , 9 - foldable canopy, 13 - hard top Favorite embodiment of invention Present invention delivers improved comfort and privacy to a simple boat.
Bow cabin is a very useful feature for a boat because it makes it possible to have a bathroom on boat.
The bow area of a boat is the front area of the boat where the bottom of the boat is raising upwards and ends the boat floor.
This inclined area of boat bow can not be used as boat floor so usually it remains unused.
On this inclined area of boat bow a cabin is built as shown in Figure 1.
Cabin floor 1 is a raised floor , one step higher then boat floor.
This raised floor allows us to use the inclined bow area that is bellow the cabin floor.
The size and shape of cabin floor is determined by shape an size of the boat bow, and also by overall size of the boat.
Figure 1, 2 and 3 show how the shape of bow determines size and shape of cabin floor.
The cabin built on boat bow accommodates a person that stands up 4 and bathroom equipment 3 .
Walls or part of walls of the cabin are built from transparent materials , so boat driver has good visibility trough cabin.
The top of the cabin can be built extended over a part of the boat to form an overhead shelter like in figure 14.
The canopy is a foldable canopy that is unfolded in different stages, so it provides the boat with shelter of different sizes and enclosed spaces.
The parts of canopy that would form vertical walls of enclosed spaces can be unfolded horizontally so they form an extended overhead shelter.
Figure 4 shows the canopy unfolded only over a part of top of the boat so it provides an overhead shelter. The canopy is supported by a frame that is fastened to the top of cabin built on top of bow.
Figure 5 shows the canopy unfolded over the entire length of boat and is supported at the back of boat by U shape frame element fastened to transom ends.
The canopy can be unfolded even farther along the boat as is shown in figure 6. The part of canopy that would form the vertical wall of enclosed space at the back of the boat, extends horizontally over the transom so boat is provided with a bigger overhead shelter.
Figure 7 , 8 and 9 show that the parts of canopy that would form vertically walls of enclosed spaces are unfolded horizontally over the gunwales providing an overhead shelter with an area way bigger then boat itself .
Enclosed space on the boat is obtained by unfolding the canopy downwards and it is fastened to gunwales and to floor of the boat as in figure 10.
The canopy can provide enclosed space on a part of boat or as big as the entire boat like in figure 11.
When the canopy provides enclosed space on a part of boat, the canopy also can provide overhead shelter on the other part of the boat.
The boat that has built a cabin on its bow and has the canopy that provides overhead shelter and enclosed spaces can be used for long time travels or live-in overnight so an easier access in boat is provided by a hull door 11 in figure 12.
The frame that supports canopy is represented in figure 14.
Main elements 15 that are installed overhead along boat and are fastened to the top of the bow cabin.
Main elements 15 are extended with extension elements 18.
Extension elements 18 are supported at the other end by frame element 10.
One of main goal of this frame, beside supporting the canopy is to has as few as possible connection points with gunwales, to avoid impeding boat user activities.
So for this purpose frame element 10 will be place at very back of boat.
Extension elements 18 are extended with extension elements 19 that are extending outside of gunwales.
There are across boat installed main elements 14 that are extended with extension elements 17.
The top of the cabin can be built extended along the boat to form an hard top for the boat like in figure 14. Also the hard top will be a fastening spot for the canopy frame.

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1. A boat having a cabin built on top of the bow of said boat and said cabin is toll enough to allow a person to stand up inside said cabin.
2. The boat of claim 1 wherein said cabin allows partial or total visibility.
3. The boat of claim 1 wherein the top of said cabin is extended over a part of said boat forming an overhead shelter
4. The boat of claim 3 wherein the space between the top of sides of said boat and said extended top of said cabin is closed to get a partial enclosed space on said boat.
5. The boat of claim 4 wherein said partially enclosed space is totally enclosed by closing the space between the extended top of said cabin and the floor of the said boat.
6. The boat of claim 1 further including a canopy that provides overhead shelter and partially or totally enclosed space on said boat.
7. The boat of claim 6 wherein said canopy provides overhead shelter for a part of said boat.
8. The boat of claim 6 wherein said canopy provides overhead shelter from said cabin to the transom of said boat.
9. The boat of claim 6 wherein said canopy extends out over gunwales and transom of the said boat so said canopy provides an overhead shelter wider then the beam of said boat.
10. The boat of claim 6 wherein said canopy provides partially enclosed space by providing overhead shelter and closing the space between said overhead shelter and gunwale of said boat.
11. The boat of claim 6 wherein said canopy provides enclosed space on a part of said boat
12. The boat of claim 6 wherein said canopy provides enclosed space from said cabin to the transom of said boat.
13. The boat of claim 11 and claim 12 wherein said enclosed space is partitioned.
14. The boat of claim 6 wherein said canopy provides enclosed space on a part of said boat and overhead shelter on other part of said boat.
15. The boat of claim 1 further including a door in the hull of said boat.
16. The boat of claim 1 further including a frame that supports said canopy.
17. The boat of claim 16 wherein said frame includes the main frame elements that are installed overhead toward the transom of said boat and are fastened at one end to the top of said cabin.
18. The boat of claim 17 wherein said main frame elements support extension elements that extend toward transom of said boat.
19. The boat of claim 18 wherein said extension elements support further extension elements that extend out over the transom of said boat.
20. The boat of claim 16 wherein said frame includes frame elements that are installed overhead across said boat.
21. The boat of claim 20 wherein said frame elements support extension elements that extend out over the gunwales of said boat.
22. The boat of claim 16 wherein said frame includes frame supporting elements that are fastened at one end to a spot that is in area of the gunwales or the transom of said boat.
23. The boat of claim 16 wherein parts of said frame are installed on said extended top of said cabin.
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