Patent ID: 8070539

Claim:
A water intake grill for attachment to a water intake port having a pair of sidewalls and forward and rearward wall sections each being associated with at least one or more mount sockets, said intake grill comprising, in combination: a fore mount having a base with angularly orientated top and bottom surfaces substantially coinciding with the positional orientation of the forward wall section; an aft mount having a horizontally positioned base substantially coinciding with the positional orientation of the rearward wall section; a cross support member having an outward side extending distantly outward from said horizontally positioned base a predetermined amount; means for anchoring said fore and aft mounts to the forward and rearward wall sections of water intake port, respectively; and a plurality of elongate members each having first and second ends and a teardrop geometric profile incorporating a tapered top end and an outward bottom section having a general rounded appearance, said first and second ends of each elongate member being integrally connected to said angularly orientated bottom surface of base and to said outward side of cross support member, respectively, said tapered top end of elongate member having an apex and a pair of sides each commencing from said apex and extending angularly outward a predetermined amount from a longitudinal axis extending through said apex and said outward bottom section.