Mooring buoy assembly

Claim 1

A MOORING BUOY ASSEMBLY COMPRISING A SUBSTANTIALLY CYLINDRICAL BUOYANT MEMBER, AN ELONGATED RIGID ELEMENT SECURED AT ONE END TO SAID BUOYANT MEMBER AND EXTENDING THEREFROM IN COAXIAL RELATIONSHIP WITH THE LONGITUDINAL AXIS THEREOF, A WEIGHT AT THE OTHER END OF SAID RIGID ELEMENT TO MAINTAIN SAID LONGITUDINAL AXIS OF SAID BUOYANT MEMBER DISPOSED VERTICALLY WHEN THE MOORING BUOY ASSEMBLY IS INSTALLED IN A BODY OF WATER, A LENGTH OF ANCHOR CHAIN CONNECTED TO THE SAID OTHER END OF SAID RIGID ELEMENT, A MASS CONNECTED TO SAID LENGTH OF ANCHOR CHAIN, SAID MASS BEING OF SUFFICIENT WEIGHT TO ENGAGE THE LAND SUBMERGED UNDER SAID BODY OF WATER WHILE HOLDING SAID ANCHOR CHAIN IN TENSION BETWEEN SAID MASS AND SAID RIGID ELEMENT TO SUBMERGE THE LOWER PORTION OF SAID BUOYANT MEMBER IN SAID BODY OF WATER A PREDETERMINED MAXIMUM AMOUNT GREATER THAN THE AMOUNT OF SUBMERGENCE OF SAID BUOYANT MEMBER WHEN SAID MASS IS NOT CONNECTED TO THE MOORING BUOY ASSEMBLY, THE WEIGHT OF SAID MASS BEING SELECTED TO PREVENT SAID BUOYANT MEMBER FROM MOVING VERTICALLY UPWARDLY WHEN ACTED ON BY UPWARD CHANGES IN THE ELEVATION OF THE SURFACE OF SAID WATER WHEN SAID CHANGES ARE BELOW A PREDETERMINED MAXIMUM ELEVATION ABOVE THE SUBMERGED LAND AND TO CAUSE SAID BUOYANT MEMBER TO LIFT SAID MASS OUT OF CONTACT WITH SAID SUBMERGED LAND WHEN THE AMOUNT OF SUBMERGENCE OF SAID BUOYANT MEMBER EXCEEDS SAID PREDETERMINED MAXIMUM AMOUNT, SAID PREDETERMINED MAXIMUM AMOUNT OCCURING WHEN THE SURFACE OF SAID WATER IS SUBSTANTIALLY AT THE ELEVATION OF MEANS HIGHER HIGH WATER, A SECOND LENGTH OF ANCHOR CHAIN CONNECTED TO THE FIRST SAID LENGTH OF ANCHOR CHAIN, AN ANCHOR MEANS CONNECTED TO SAID SECOND LENGTH OF ANCHOR CHAIN AND DISPOSABLE LATERALLY FROM A POSITION VERTICALLY BELOW SAID BUOYANT MEMBER, AND HOOK MEANS PIVOTALLY MOUNTED ON THE UPPER END OF SAID BUOYANT MEMBER FOR ATTACHING A MOORING LINE FROM A VESSEL THERETO.