Frame rail assemblies and interlocking frame rail systems
OwnerSteven Edward DeMayinventor
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Abstract
A frame rail assembly for a boat dock structure includes a frame rail member and a removable resilient rub-rail member. The frame rail member includes a first side configured for securing the frame rail member to a side of the boat dock structure; a second side opposing the first side; a first channel extending along a length of the frame rail member; and a second channel below the first channel, the second channel extending along the length of the frame rail member. An interlocking frame rail system for boat dock structures includes a first frame rail member, a second frame rail member, and an upper connector member extending along at least a portion of a length of the first frame rail member and at least a portion of the length of a second frame rail member.
Claims9
A frame rail assembly for a boat dock structure, the frame rail assembly comprising:
- a frame rail member including an outer surface, a first side configured for securing the frame rail member to a side of the boat dock structure by fasteners or welding;
- and a second side opposing the first side configured for securing a removable resilient rub-rail member;
- a first channel extending along a length of the frame rail member;
- a second channel below the first channel, the second channel extending along the length of the frame rail member, wherein a cross-sectional shape of the first inner section of the first channel is different from the second cross-sectional shape of the second channel;
- and the removable resilient rub-rail member projecting outward from the second side and extending along at least a portion of the length of the frame rail member and over an upper side of the frame rail member.
A frame rail assembly for connection to a generally planar, vertically extending face of an existing boat dock structure, the frame rail assembly comprising:
- a frame rail member comprising a body having a first side and a generally opposing second side, said first side comprising a generally planar face which is configured to be placed against said generally planar, vertically extending face of said existing boat dock structure, in abutment thereto, a plurality of openings in said flat face of said first side for accepting a fastener therethrough and into connection with said generally planar, vertically extending face of said existing boat dock structure, and a second side opposing the first side configured to receive a removable resilient rub-rail member projecting outward from the second side and extending along at least a portion of the length of the frame rail member.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.