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US 11,001,343 B2Granted
Rotating and sliding boarding door assembly systems for a vessel and a vessel having the same
AssigneeThe Hinckley Company
InventorsScott Bryant, Keith Attee, Tom Buerkle
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a rotating and sliding boat boarding door mechanism configured to aid the vessel's occupants in their ingress and egress to and from the vessel. More particularly, the present invention provides a rotating and sliding boat boarding door assembly and system that slidingly moves into a recess in the vessel's exterior (e.g., side, transom, and/or gunwale) that has been configured to receive and maintain the boarding door assembly in a position where it is out of sight when fully recessed.
Claims10
A rotating and sliding boarding door assembly for a boat, comprising:
- an upper portion configured to be positioned in an opening in a boat hull when the assembly is in a closed position;
- a lower portion configured to be positioned below said upper portion in the opening when the assembly is in the closed position;
- one or more actuators coupled with said upper portion and said lower portion, said one or more actuators being configured to rotate and slide the upper and lower potions into a recess in a hull of the boat;
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- one or more tracks, slideably coupled with at least one of the upper and lower portions, for guiding said at least one of the upper and lower portions into said recess.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.