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US 10,588,305 B2Granted
Marine hub with interchangeable arms
OwnerHarold F. Larkin, Susan N. Larkininventors
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Abstract
A marine hub attaches to a boat pedestal, dock support or other vertical support post, and has removable interchangeable attachment arms that radiate from a main body tube or disk that fits around the support post. The main body tube has a bore with an inside diameter just larger than the diameter of the support post. An adapter ring may be used within the bore of the main body tube for mounting on posts that are smaller, or not cylindrical. Support stub members radiate from the main body tube, and the attachment arms secure to these with quick release pins. The support arms may be used with fishing or boating accessories, beverage holders, or other equipment.
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In combination, a seat pedestal of a boat, the seat pedestal being in the form of a vertical generally cylindrical support post, and a marine hub adapted to be positioned on said seat pedestal below a too thereof comprising:
- a generally round-profile one-piece hub body member having a vertically oriented central bore extending vertically therethrough and adapted to permit the hub to be positioned at plural positions along said seat pedestal and to fit snugly onto said seat pedestal, said hub body member being formed of a marine grade aluminum, stainless steel, or equivalent plastic resin;
- means on said body member releasably gripping said seat pedestal to hold the body member securely in place thereon;
- a plurality of rigid, non-adjustable support stub members protruding generally radially and horizontally outward from said body member, with outer ends thereof which serve as a male or female socket member, wherein said support stub members are rigidly affixed onto said body member;
- a plurality of elongated attachment arms each having a female or male socket member formed at a radially inward end thereof and adapted for fitting removably onto a respective one of said support stub members, such that said attachment arms are held in a fixed orientation on said hub body member;
- said socket members of said attachment arms and said socket members of said support stub members each having at least one through-bore extending transversely through the respective attachment arm and stub member, and configured such that the through-bores align when the respective attachment arms are placed onto the associated support stub members;
- and at least one removable retaining pin adapted for penetrating aligned through-bores of said support stub members and attachment arms to hold the attachment arms removably in place supported on said marine hub body member.
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A marine hub comprising
- a generally round-profile hub body member having a vertically oriented central bore adapted to fit snugly onto a vertical generally cylindrical support post, said hub body member being formed of a marine grade aluminum, stainless steel, or equivalent plastic resin;
- means on said body member releasably gripping said support post to hold the body member securely in place thereon;
- a plurality of rigid, non-adjustable support stub members protruding generally radially and horizontally outward from said body member, with outer ends thereof which serve as a male or female socket member, wherein said support stub members are rigidly affixed onto said body member;
- a plurality of elongated attachment arms each having a female or male socket member formed at a radially inward end thereof and adapted for fitting removably onto a respective one of said support stub members, such that said attachment arms are held in a fixed orientation on said hub body member;
- said socket members of said attachment arms and said socket members of said support stub members each having at least one through-bore configured such that the through-bores align when the respective attachment arms are placed onto the associated support stub members;
- at least one removable retaining pin adapted for penetrating aligned through bores of said support stub members and attachment arms to hold the attachment arms removably in place supported on said marine hub body member, and
- further comprising a split adapter ring formed of said marine grade aluminum, stainless steel, or equivalent plastic resin, and dimensioned for fitting within the central bore of said body member and over said generally cylindrical support post.
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A marine hub comprising
- a generally round-profile one-piece hub body member having a vertically oriented central bore extending vertically therethrough and adapted to fit snugly onto a vertical generally cylindrical support post, said hub body member being formed of a marine grade aluminum, stainless steel, or equivalent plastic resin;
- means on said body member releasably gripping said support post to hold the body member securely in place thereon;
- a plurality of rigid, non-adjustable support stub members protruding generally radially and horizontally outward from said body member, with outer ends thereof which serve as a male or female socket member, wherein said support stub members are rigidly affixed onto said body member;
- a plurality of elongated attachment arms each having a female or male socket member formed at a radially inward end thereof and adapted for fitting removably onto a respective one of said support stub members, such that said attachment arms are held in a fixed orientation on said hub body member;
- said socket members of said attachment arms and said socket members of said support stub members each having at least one through-bore extending transversely through the respective attachment arm and stub member, and configured such that the through-bores align when the respective attachment arms are placed onto the associated support stub members;
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- at least one removable retaining pin adapted for penetrating aligned through-bores of said support stub members and attachment arms to hold the attachment arms removably in place supported on said marine hub body member, and
- wherein said body member is in the form of a split tube having an axial gap therein with a pair of lugs affixed to said split tube adjacent respective opposite sides of said gap, and including compressing means for drawing the lugs towards one another to compress the central bore against said support post.
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A marine hub comprising
- a generally round-profile hub body member having a vertically oriented central bore adapted to fit snugly onto a vertical generally cylindrical support post, said hub body member being formed of a marine grade aluminum, stainless steel, or equivalent plastic resin;
- means on said body member releasably gripping said support post to hold the body member securely in place thereon;
- a plurality of rigid, non-adjustable support stub members protruding generally radially and horizontally outward from said body member, with outer ends thereof which serve as a male or female socket member, wherein said support stub members are rigidly affixed onto said body member;
- a plurality of elongated attachment arms each having a female or male socket member formed at a radially inward end thereof and adapted for fitting removably onto a respective one of said support stub members, such that said attachment arms are held in a fixed orientation on said hub body member;
- said socket members of said attachment arms and said socket members of said support stub members each having at least one through-bore configured such that the through-bores align when the respective attachment arms are placed onto the associated support stub members;
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- at least one removable retaining pin adapted for penetrating transversely aligned through bores of said support stub members and attachment arms to hold the attachment arms removably in place supported on said marine hub body member;
- and further comprising
- an adapter ring fitted into the central bore of said body member, and having an outer diameter to match the inner diameter of said central bore and an inner diameter to match the outer diameter of said cylindrical support post, and wherein one of said adapter ring and said body member has an aperture extending radially therethrough, and a retaining member fits into said aperture and into the other of said body member and said adapter ring to hold the adapter ring in place.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.