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Tidal depth calculator
Assignee: Individual
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Filing: 1978-10-25
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Granted: 1980-03-18
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Expires: 1998-10-25
Abstract
Abstract There is disclosed a marine navigational calculator device of the slide rule type whereby tidal depths over bottom structures may be determined as a function of the time of the tide or time of calendar day and whereby the entire time span available to a mariner to successfully negotiate such charted bottom structures for a given tidal flow is visually presented.
Inventors
- 👤 Joseph Katz
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
US
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Last Synchronized
2026-11-05 05:14
CPC Classifications
G; G06; G06G; G06G1/00; G06G1/0005; G06G1/0052; G06C; G06C3/00
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 16
Claim 1
Independent Claim
156 words
A tidal depth calculator device of the slide rule type comprising: a sliding element and a stationary element, said elements being connected for relative motion therebetween; one of said elements having indicia thereon representative of sequential time intervals spanning at least a twelve hour period; the other of said elements having thereon a tidal range table comprising a list of tidal ranges and a table of tide depths comprising a plurality of tidal depth entries keyed to each tidal range of said list, said entries being arranged in sequential time interval order embracing a tide cycle; means to index the one element to the other element, thereby to key the time interval indicia of the one element representing the starting time of a tidal cycle to said tidal range table of the other element; and reference means to key the time intervals of the indexed one element to the tide depth entries of the other element.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
156 words
A tidal depth calculator device of the slide rule type comprising: a sliding element and a stationary element, said elements being connected for relative motion therebetween; one of said elements having indicia thereon representative of sequential time intervals spanning at least a twelve hour period; the other of said elements having thereon a tidal range table comprising a list of tidal ranges and a table of tide depths comprising a plurality of tidal depth entries keyed to each tidal range of said list, said entries being arranged in sequential time interval order embracing a tide cycle; means to index the one element to the other element, thereby to key the time interval indicia of the one element representing the starting time of a tidal cycle to said tidal range table of the other element; and reference means to key the time intervals of the indexed one element to the tide depth entries of the other element.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
20 words
The calculator device of claim 1 wherein said indicia of said one element spans a time period of twenty-four hours.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
14 words
The calculator device of claim 1 in the form of a circular slide rule.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
49 words
The calculator device of claim 1 wherein said indexing means comprises a window located on said other element whereby any one of said time interval indicia of said one element can be caused to appear in said window by said relative motion of the one element to the other.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
33 words
The calculator device of claim 4 including additional windows appropriately spaced from said indexing window to display therethrough the finishing time of the tidal cycle and the intermediate time of the tidal cycle.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
21 words
The calculator device of claim 1 wherein said starting time of the tidal cycle is the time of previous low tide.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
21 words
The calculator device of claim 1 wherein said starting time of the tidal cycle is the time of previous high tide.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim
18 words
The calculator device of claim 1 comprising means to visually demarcate adjacent time intervals of said one element.
Claim 10
Dependent Claim
23 words
The calculator device of claim 1 wherein said sliding element is said one element and wherein said stationary element is said other element.
Claim 11
Dependent Claim
22 words
The calculator device of claim 1 wherein said sliding element is said one element and is in the form of a disk.
Claim 12
Dependent Claim
61 words
The calculator device of claim 10 wherein the stationary element comprises a rectangular portion bearing said tidal range table thereon and a semicircular portion having a diameter smaller than said disk extending above said rectangular portion on common centers such as to expose a portion of the circumference of the disk, which exposed portion bears said sequential time interval indicia thereon.
Claim 13
Dependent Claim
48 words
The calculator device of claim 1 wherein said reference means comprises a reference line extending from each column of said sequentially arranged tide depth entries, across said semicircular portion, and terminating at the margin of said semicircular portion at the location of the sequential time interval corresponding thereto.
Claim 14
Dependent Claim
53 words
The calculator device of claim 11 including means to visually demarcate adjacent time interval indicia of said disk, said means comprising arcuate bars located at the interior circumference of the exposed portion of the disk and embracing alternate time intervals, each said bar terminating at the limits of the time interval embraced thereby.
Claim 15
Dependent Claim
54 words
The calculator device of claim 11 wherein said indexing means comprises an indexing window located at one end of said semicircular portion of the stationary element whereby any one of said time interval indicia of said disk can be caused to appear by said relative motion of the disk relative to the stationary element.
Claim 16
Dependent Claim
82 words
The calculator device of claim 14 including a second window located at the apex of said semicircular portion and a third window located at the other end of said semicircular portion, wherein, upon indexing of said disk to said stationary element so as to expose the starting time of a tidal cycle in said indexing window, there is exposed in said second window the intermediate time of the tidal cycle and in said third window the finishing time of the tidal cycle.
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