Patent ID: 6736081
Filing Date: 2004-05-18
Classification: B63B

Abstract:
A bilge management and control system of a vessel comprising:a full port through-transom fitting, a hose barb to male plug adapter (or a garden hose adapter) and/or a solid threaded plug; said full port through-transom fitting consisting of a pipe having a flanged end; said pipe being threaded inside and outside and providing a single unobstructed straight-through interior passageway, an entry point and an exit terminus, and being located near the lowest point of the interior of a vessel and extending into a bilge through an aperture in the lower portion of said transom wall of a vessel; said flanged end mounted against the exterior surface of said transom wall near its lowest point; said exit terminus of said pipe existing concurrent with said externally-mounted flanged end; said hose barb to male plug adapter being threaded by its male plug adapter end into said pipe's entry point, forming a contiguous unobstructed straight-through interior passageway with said pipe; said solid threaded plug being threaded into said hose barb to male plug adapter at its hose barb end or directly into said pipe's entry point, forming a watertight seal with said hose barb to male plug adapter and said pipe or with said pipe alone, such that said solid threaded plug dams said hose barb to male plug adapter and/or said pipe's unobstructed straight-through interior passageway, thus preventing seawater or other substances from entering a bilge and allowing bilge waters or other substances to be retained and controlled within a bilge and/or the forward compartments of a vessel or to be drained from a bilge and/or the forward compartments of a vessel into said hose barb to male plug adapter and/or said pipe's unobstructed straight-through interior passageway and through said exit terminus by gravity flow, differential pressure or other mechanical means when said solid threaded plug is removed.