Abstract: A bathroom for two cabins of a ship is provided, the bathroom including three spaces and two separate entrances for access to the bathroom from the two cabins. The three spaces include a first room, a second room, and a shower room that is accessible from the first room and from the second room. The shower room includes a movable wall, which is movable between two positions: (i) a first position in which the movable wall forms a separation wall between the first room and the shower room and allows access to the shower room from the second room, and (ii) a second position in which the movable wall forms a separation wall between the second room and the shower room and allows access to the shower room from the first room.

Abstract: Boat cabin construction, which can be built in significantly short time, is low cost and suitable for decorative modifications.

Abstract: A crew rest unit for an aircraft fuselage may be formed as a monocoque shell (10) having curved walls (10b) complementary to and fitting within an available space (20a, 20b) in the aircraft fuselage. The monocoque shell (10) provides an enclosure for at least one sleep area (14a, 14b) therein. The curved walls (10b) of the monocoque shell (10) have load-bearing mounting members (12) on their outer surfaces for attachment of fasteners (22) to an adjacent wall or frame for the pre-determined available space (20a, 20b) in the aircraft fuselage.

Abstract: An electric houseboat comprises a hull and a house-like structure mounted on the hull which includes at least one bedroom, a bathroom, and a kitchen. A Diesel generator comprises the sole power source for the houseboat. The operating temperature of the Diesel generator is controlled by directing coolant through the Diesel generator and through a keel pipe which extends along the hull of the houseboat thereby discharging heat into the water over which the houseboat operates. Exhaust resulting from operation of the Diesel generator is directed upwardly and is discharged at a point substantially above the water and above the house-like structure of the houseboat.

Abstract: A boat has a system for converting a utility space used for garaging a dinghy and formed under the cockpit of the boat into an additional living cabin when the dinghy is removed from the garage.

Abstract: A plurality of radiation images of an object is taken in different imaging positions. An area sensor which detects a radiation passing through the object is moved in a direction substantially parallel to the optical axis of the radiation. That the area sensor reaches one of the imaging positions is detected and the radiation is projected onto the area sensor only when the area sensor is in one of the imaging positions.

Abstract: After a deck is constructed on a ship, and before the next deck above it is constructed, prefabricated cabin modules are lifted by a crane from a pier, carried over the ship's hull, and deposited directly by the crane substantially at their final locations in a row spaced from the hull. Before the cabins are completed by the erection of wall elements that extend from the prefabricated cabin modules toward the hull, workers can attend to the construction of the overlying deck, and easily carry out the welding and outfitting operations needed to secure the overlying deck to the hull. Furnishings and fixtures for each cabin are concentrated and fixed within the prefabricated cabin modules, so that at least approximately 80% of the cabin construction labor is carried out ashore in the prefabrication process.

Abstract: A bed arrangement is provided for shipboard stateroom use. Fixedly positioned, spaced-apart, small single beds, having a leg space therebetween for daytime use as facing sofas, optionally can be converted to a large common bed, of a size larger in width than even a conventional king-size bed. This option allows booking flexibility in that the same stateroom can at different times be booked as providing separate, single beds, or optionally as providing a large common bed, comparable to or greater in size than that of a king-size bed. The option is effected by providing a readily assembleable and readily removable center bed section in the space between the normally spaced-apart separate beds. The invention thereby provides a means for increasing stateroom revenue in response to demand for large, shared bedding arrangements, when such demand occurs.

Abstract: Cabin unit arrangement for ships or the like comprising a number of cabin units located side by side on an even base, for instance on a ships deck. Said cabin units are separately mountable, whereby the self-supporting and box-like cabin unit comprises at least walls and a roof and is arranged for transport to the cabin mounting site at least mainly as a unique transport unit. Said transport unit is produced from at least two basic elements, whereby at least one external dimension of the transport unit is considerably smaller than the corresponding extension of the mounted cabin unit.

Abstract: A marine vehicle comprising a hull, and a convertible dinette/sleeper apparatus including a base supported by the hull and including a generally horizontal upper surface having therein a recess, a table portion having a generally planar upper surface, and means supporting the table portion for movement between a first position wherein the table portion is located above the recess and the upper surface of the table portion extends generally horizontally and is spaced above the upper surface of the base, and a second position wherein the table portion is located in the recess and the upper surface of the table portion is substantially coplanar with the upper surface of the base.

Abstract: A big passenger ship having passenger cabins as well as general purpose spaces and service rooms. The ship is divided into an upper part and a lower part of which the lower part extends up to the uppermost deck reaching all over the hull of the ship. The lower part is at least substantially free from passenger cabins and least substantially all of the passenger cabins are in the form of outside cabins located to a multifloor unit forming the upper part of the ship. This unit is considerably narrower than the lower part of the ship and is constructed according to the rules applicable to constructions above the uppermost through-going deck of a ship.

Abstract: A room unit (1) and a method for the construction and the position mounting of the box-like room unit (1), for instance a cabin, a module assembled from room elements or the like. The room unit intended for an arrangement operable in marine enviroments, for instance for a ship, an offshore construction or the like. The room unit is located on an at least mainly even underlaying (14) of the arrangement, for instance on a ship's deck (14). The method comprises the inclusion of the room unit (1) with a roof (4), walls (2,3) and a floor (12), the lower portion of the wall (2,3) being attached at the outer edge of the self-supporting floor (12). The floor (12) is provided by adjustable damping appliances (21) operable from the interior of the room unit (1). The moving of the room unit (1) is carried out by supporting the unit (1) temporarily at a bag-like air cushion device and at one stabilizing device at least.

Abstract: A method for providing a floating structure with self-supporting box-like cabin elements. A deck or the like is prepared for receiving the cabin elements, which are built up with walls and a roof and with an open bottom. Transport units, by which the cabin elements are movable on the deck, are temporarily attached to the cabin elements below and inside their walls.