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    Karl Krøyer received patents in the UK and Germany for a method of raising sunken vessels by introducing buoyant bodies like polystyrene balls or foam plastic pieces into the interior through a tube from a salvage ship. While commonly attributed to inspiring his method, a 1949 Donald Duck comic depicted using ping pong balls in a similar way, which supposedly led the Dutch patent office to deny Krøyer's application there since it was not new.

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    Karl Krøyer received patents in the UK and Germany for a method of raising sunken vessels by introducing buoyant bodies like polystyrene balls or foam plastic pieces into the interior through a tube from a salvage ship. While commonly attributed to inspiring his method, a 1949 Donald Duck comic depicted using ping pong balls in a similar way, which supposedly led the Dutch patent office to deny Krøyer's application there since it was not new.

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    Karl Krøyer received patents in the UK and Germany for a method of raising sunken vessels by introducing buoyant bodies like polystyrene balls or foam plastic pieces into the interior through a tube from a salvage ship. While commonly attributed to inspiring his method, a 1949 Donald Duck comic depicted using ping pong balls in a similar way, which supposedly led the Dutch patent office to deny Krøyer's application there since it was not new.

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    (8 March 1965, page 58).

    Other sources describing the event are


    magazines "Popular Science", April 1965 (page 118-119); "Die
    BASF" vol. 15 no. 3, 1965 (page 148-156); and "Chemistry",
    September 1966.

    The patents
    Abstract of GB1070600

    1,070,600. Raising sunken vessels. K.


    K. K. KROYER. Nov. 2, 1965 [Nov. 4, Inventor Karl Kryer received patents for this method in the
    1964], No. 46343/65. Heading B7S. An United Kingdom (GB 1070600) and Germany (DE1247893).
    apparatus for raising a sunken vessel Some sources claim that it was company BASF that obtained
    (1), Fig. 1 (not shown), by introducing the patents, but the applicant's name on the patent frontpages
    buoyant bodies into the interior of the is actually Kryer himself.
    vessel comprises a water pump (6), Fig,
    2 (not shown), which on the pressure
    side is connected to the inlet end of an According to the patent claim, buoyant bodies 1 are inserted
    ejector (7) having its suction pipe (8) into a sunken vessel 4 through a tube 3 from a salvage ship 2.
    connected to a silo (9) containing the
    buoyant bodies, the outlet end of the
    ejector (7) being connected to one end
    of a tube (3) the other end (10) of which
    can be introduced into the interior of the
    sunken vessel. An adhesive of asphalt
    supplied through tube (11) is applied to
    each buoyant body as it leaves nozzle
    (10) to enter the sunken vessel. The
    buoyant bodies may be gas-containing
    polystyrene balls or pieces of cellular
    plastics material.

    Description of DE1247893

    Verfahren zum Heben eines


    gesunkenen Schiffes Die Erfindung
    betrifft ein Verfahren zum Heben eines
    gesunkenen Schiffes, wonach
    Schwimmkrper aus Kunststoff,
    insbesondere Schaumkunststoff, mit
    Hilfe eines von einer auf dem
    Bergungsschiff angeordneten Pumpe
    erzeugten Wasserstrahles jeweils in
    einen der Schiffsrume hineingedrckt Figure 1 of Kryer's patent
    werden, indem sie zunchst in einen
    auf dem Bergungsschiff befindlichen The story is usually told as relating to the Dutch patent (NL
    Behlter und von diesem aus durch 6514306) Kryer applied for. This application was not
    eine damit zusammenwirkende
    Frdervorrichtung in den Wasserstrahl
    approved. According to the story, the Dutch Patent Office found
    fhrenden, an das zu hebende Schiff an old issue of the Donald Duck magazine which showed the
    angeschlossenen Schlauch eingebracht same invention. Since an invention has to be new to be
    werden. patentable, the application was refused. This story was recently
    repeated by the Dutch patent office (in Dutch), although
    surprisingly this confirmation did not give any detail on which
    patent office or how the Duck story came to its attention.

    A 1949 Donald Duck cartoon in which


    Donald and his nephews lifted a ship The Donald Duck story
    using ping pong balls, in 1964
    supposedly inspired the team around In 1949 the Donald Duck story The Sunken Yacht (by Carl
    Danish inventor Karl Kroyer to lift the Barks) shows Donald and the nephews raising a ship by filling it
    freighter Al Kuwait, capsized in Kuwait with ping pong balls shoved through a tube, as can be seen
    port, by pumping polystyrol pellets below in the images cited from that story.
    (balls) into the ship.

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