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A power-driven float device includes a combination and inflatable float tube, a support body for the power supply on which there is mounted a vertical shaft and an electric motor and impeller together with the battery for powering the electric motor and means for releasably attaching the support bod

A power-driven float device includes a combination and inflatable float tube, a support body for the power supply on which there is mounted a vertical shaft and an electric motor and impeller together with the battery for powering the electric motor and means for releasably attaching the support body to the float tube. The float tube, support body and vertical shaft are easily assembled and disassembled. The float tube is shown to the front or either side of the support body. Band-type and strap-type harness assemblies firmly embrace the float tube to releasably secure the float tube to the support body. A storage body of a size and shape and construction in one embodiment is mounted opposite the support body.

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A power-driven float assembly comprising, in combination: an inflatable float device having rounded external shape with an inner cavity traversed by a seat defining a hole for legs for disposing a user in a selected orientation with the user floating thereon on a body of water, a floatable support b

A power-driven float assembly comprising, in combination: an inflatable float device having rounded external shape with an inner cavity traversed by a seat defining a hole for legs for disposing a user in a selected orientation with the user floating thereon on a body of water, a floatable support body having a top wall, bottom wall and opposed sidewalls, said sidewalls being tapered inwardly from a wider inner end wall portion to a narrower outer end wall portion in a direction away from said float device, said inner end wall portion being shaped to conform to a rounded external surface of said float device, said support body being made of an outer rigid skin filled with a floatable fill material, said body having a density suitable for floating in water and supporting a user in water independently of said float device, fastening harness means secured at one end to said support body and having a side member that extends around the periphery of said float device and is pulled against said periphery by a fastener means for releasably attaching said support body to said float device, a power assembly carried by said support body including a vertical shaft extending through a vertical hole in said support body between said inner end wall portion and said outer end wall portion and rotatable therein, control means for use by the user for steering and controlling motor speed, an electric motor driving an impeller, said impeller being mounted for rotation at the lower end of said shaft, an electric battery mounted in a recessed wall portion in said top wall of said support body and electrically connected to said electric motor, said recessed wall portion being between said inner end wall portion and said shaft, whereby said power assembly is selectively actuated by the user to propel said float device in a body of water.