US1752191A - Sea tub - Google Patents

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March 25, 1930. J. c. MORAY 1,752,191

SEA TUB Filed July 16, 1929 INVENTOR WITNES'SES J." 0.,]1( ora y ATTORN EY Patented Mar. 25, 1930 I asics .TERE o. MoRAY, E NEW YORK, N. Y.

SEA

Application filed July 16,

This invention relates toa buoyant or lioatable device designed and adapted to float persons in the water, and which is designed primarily for use in the water by bathersand swimmers at bathing and swimming resorts.`

The principal object of the invention is the provision of a device of the indicated character of novel vform and construction.

The nature of the invention and its distinguishing features and advantages will appear when the following specification is read in connection with the accompanying drawing, in which- Figure 1 illustrates the device constructed in accordance with the invention, aiioat.`

Fig. 2 is a central longitudinal sectional view of the device. 7

The device includes a body 10 in the form of a tub, which will therefore be of hollow construction. The body 10 may be of any preferred size and shape. In the present instance the body 10 is of rectangular shape. The body 10 is constructed of sponge rubber or a material embodying the characteristics of sponge rubber, which includes a number' of air cells certain of which communicate with each other while'others are completely sealed so as to form air pockets by virtue of which the body will float in the water. The air cells which communicate with each other lead through' the walls of the body so as to admit water to the interior of the body. In practice the body will be of a suitable size to permit a person of average height to llie down in the tub with the head resting on the upper edge of one end wall.v Its size will body 10 rests.

TUB

1929. Serial No. 378,739.

connected together by vertical buoyant frames 12. rIhe frames 11 and members l2 are made preferably of balsa wood, although any other suitable rigid material may be used. In the present instance there is provided a transverse member 13 secured to the lower frame 11 on which the bottom ofthe A device so constructed is adapted to Heat persons in the water.

It is contemplated to connect a number of 6@ similar devices together and to properly moor or anchor the devices in a body of water accessible to bathers and swimmers for any desired aquatic purposes. l

I claim: C5

1. An aquatic device comprising a body in .the form of a tub made of soft and buoyant material, and a rigid buoyant structure applied to the body to reinforce the same.

2. An aquatic device comprising a body in the form of a tub made of spongy and buoyant material, and a rigid buoyant structure applied to said body over the outsides thereof to reinforce the same.

8. An aquatic device comprising a body made of soft, spongy and buoyant material, and a rigid buoyant structure applied to said body to reinforce the same.

4. An aquatic device comprising a body in the form of a tub made of sponge rubber, and a rigid buoyant structure applied to said body to reinforce the same.

Signed at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, this 12th day of July, 1929. ,8U

JERE C. MORAY.

therefore be approximately siX and one-half feet long and four and one-half feet wide and of an outside depth of 'approximately three feet. The walls of the body will also be approximately siX inches in thickness.

In order to reinforce the body 10, and also to retain the shape thereof against pressure from within the space presented by the walls of the body there is provided upper and lower buoyant frames 11 and of substantially similar construction. The members of each' frame are of L-shape in cross section. The said frames 11 are fitted to the body l0 and are arranged on the outside. The frames v1l are

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