Surfboard rack for vehicles
OwnerShawn Skoffinventor
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Abstract
A surfboard rack device has a center post, two bottom receiver rings, and two top retainer loops. The bottom receiver rings may also have flexible netting forming bottom baskets, into which one end of a surfboard is inserted. The other end of the surfboard rests in one of the top retainer loops and is secured by an elasticized strap that hooks to a strap ring on the top retainer loop or a pair of hinged rigid arcs which lock together. The device is mounted on a vehicle either by sliding a trailer hitch insert into the vehicle's trailer hitch receptacle, or by hooking the flat hooks of the rack support over the top and bottom of the vehicle's trunk lid.
Claims7
A surfboard carrier device for vehicles, the device comprising:
- a center post removably attachable to a vehicle, the center post comprising a rigid elongated post for supporting a plurality of surfboards attached thereto and means for attaching the post removably to a vehicle for transporting at least one surfboard attached to the center post;
- a pair of bottom receiver rings attached to a bottom portion of the center post, one of the pair on each of two sides of the center post, each the receiver rings comprising a rigid surfboard encircling structure, covered by a resilient surface covering, to support a bottom portion of at least one surfboard placed within each of the receiver rings, each of the receiver rings further comprising a flexible netting forming a bottom basket attached around a bottom of each of the receiver rings for receiving a bottom of the at least one surfboard resting in the bottom basket;
- a pair of top retainer loops attached to an upper portion of the center post, one of the pair of retainer loops on each of the two sides of the center post above and spaced apart from the pair of receiver rings, each of the retainer loops comprising adjustable means for admitting and securing at least one surfboard within the retainer loop.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.