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An armor with rollers is provided that enables a user to move in all positions by rolling on a hard and smooth surface while constantly varying his bearing points on the ground.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 4125955 | Stern fishing system A stern fishing system utilizing a power block and purse seine net which is launched and retrieved from the stern of a fishing boat. When the net has been pursed, it may contain fish such as tuna, as well as a number of porpoises. For ecology reasons, the... | 11/21/1978 |
| 4061387 | Net-raising tool A net-raising tool for use in raising fish nets, either empty or laden with fish. A series of dull, net-engaging hooks are located at one end of each of a series of several parallel tines. The tines all lie in substantially a common plane, and the hooks a... | 12/06/1977 |
| 4054265 | Device for gripping ropes, cables or wires The device is in the nature of a winch, particularly for use on sailing yachts as a sheet or anchor winch, and in which the rope or the like to be gripped is guided over a driven member comprising two conical discs operatively coupled to each other and ha... | 10/18/1977 |
| 4051690 | Method and apparatus for freezing fish A continuous output brine freezing system is disclosed particularly applicable to the freezing of large fish such as tuna on board fishing vessels. The vessels include a series of fish freezing tanks within which the large fish, after being encapsulated i... | 10/04/1977 |
| 4032113 | Winches for hauling on board purse nets or similar fishing devices Winches for hauling on board fishing vessels purse nets or similar fishing devices. The nets are pulled by frictional engagement with at least two rollers rotatable in mutually opposite directions and arranged in spaced apart relationship to project freel... | 06/28/1977 |
| 4028821 | Apparatus for dredging from the stern of marine vessels A dredge for operation from the stern of marine vessels and of the type having runners which enable it to be moved along a ramp at the stern of a marine vessel is provided with structure for preventing its twisting and misalignment of the dredge as it pas... | 06/14/1977 |
| 3974923 | Tilting ramp assembly for fishing vessels Tilting ramp assembly for fitting to fishing vessel for assisting in raising fishing nets, and launching and recovery of small boats. Assembly has fixed portion secured adjacent the stern of the vessel and moving portion hinged thereto with roller journal... | 08/17/1976 |
| 3964730 | Seine-hauling power blocks A power block is mounted above the deck of a trawler for hauling in seine to be piled on the deck. Rollers mounted on the power block are engageable by a seine looped over the sheave of the power block to increase the arc of wrap of a seine draped over th... | 06/22/1976 |
| 3962810 | Stopper for use in trawling gear A stopper component for use in trawling equipment which is made of metal and has one end formed to resemble a chain link, an opposite end in the form of a shackle and a central portion intermediate the two ends provided with outwardly projecting shoulders... | 06/15/1976 |
| 3962811 | Chain component A shackle component for use in a fishing trawl in the form of a pair of shackles or clevises arranged in back-to-back relationship with the free ends of the arms of each extending away from each other, each of the arms of each shackle being apertured to r... | 06/15/1976 |
| 3959909 | Kelly's eye component for a fishing trawl A Kelly's Eye component for a fishing trawl is disclosed, the component being formed of metal and having one end in the form of a ring defining an aperture which is sufficiently large to allow passage of a trawl rope, the other end of the component being ... | 06/01/1976 |
| 3942655 | Lobster trap davit A davit which is particularly useful in hoisting lobster traps from water onto a gunwale of a lobster boat, comprises a hoist arm; an essentially perpendicularly extending member in a substantially horizontal direction at one end of the hoist arm wherein ... | 03/09/1976 |
