WAVE GENERATING APPARATUS AND METHOD

• US 20140105685A1
• Filed: 12/13/2013
• Published: 04/17/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 10/17/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: American Wave Machines Incorporated
• Original Assignee: American Wave Machines Incorporated
• Inventors: McFarland, Bruce
• Granted Patent: US 9,068,371 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 405/79
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 69/0093 for surfing, i.e. without a sail; for skate or snow boarding
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 71/04 for small-room or indoor sporting games
• CPC Class Codes: A63G 31/007 involving water
• CPC Class Codes: E04H 4/0006 Devices for producing waves in swimming pools generating current of water in swimming pools A63B69/125
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 29/49947 by applying separate fastener

Abstract

A wave forming apparatus has a channel for containing a flow of water with an inlet end connected to a water supply, a floor, and spaced side walls, a first bed form or weir at the inlet end of the channel, and a second bed form in the channel downstream of the first bed form. Also disclosed is a wave forming apparatus has a channel for containing a flow of water, the channel having an inlet end connected to a water supply for supplying a flowing stream of water, a floor, and spaced side walls, and at least one oblique foil member adjustably mounted in the floor of the channel. The foils, weirs or bed form, form a standing wave.

Claims

1. A wave generating apparatus, comprising:

a channel having a bottom, the channel adapted to direct a flow of water into contact with a bed form located in the channel, the channel and the bed form together being adapted to generate a barrel-shaped wave capable of supporting a person surfing when the flow of water contacts the bed form, the bed form comprising;

a base section adjacent to the bottom of the channel, the base section having a substantially flat first exterior profile defining a first included angle between the first exterior profile and the bottom of the channel; and

an upper section above the base section, the upper section having a substantially flat second exterior profile defining a second included angle between the second exterior profile and the bottom of the channel;

wherein the second included angle is greater than the first included angle.