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US 12,351,273 B2Granted
Tower with electric actuators
AssigneeXtreme Marine Corporation
InventorsWilliam C. Hill, Benjamin Girard Harder
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Abstract
A foldable watersports tower for a boat includes a pair of legs pivotally mounted to the boat, each leg having an electronic leg actuator operable to pivot the leg between an upright orientation and a lower orientation; a cross-piece extending between the legs; a roof mount pivotally mounted to the legs; a roof mounted to the roof mount; and a roof frame actuator connected between portions of the cross-piece and portions of the roof mount.
Claims12
A foldable watersports tower for a boat includes:
- a pair of legs pivotally mounted to the boat, each leg having an electronic leg actuator operable to pivot the leg between an upright orientation and a lower orientation;
- a cross-piece extending between the legs;
- a roof pivotally mounted to the legs, the roof comprising a roof mount pivotally mounted to the legs and extending rearward of the cross-piece and a roof frame statically mounted to the roof mount;
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- an electronic roof actuator connected between portions of the cross-piece and portions of the roof, with a first end of the roof actuator pivotally attached to the cross-piece and a second end of the roof actuator pivotally attached to the roof mount.
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A foldable watersports tower for a boat includes:
- a pair of legs pivotally mounted to the boat, each leg having an electronic leg actuator operable to pivot the leg between an upright orientation and a lower orientation;
- a cross-piece extending between and statically mounted to upper ends of the legs;
- a roof comprising a roof mount pivotally mounted to upper ends of the legs and extending rearward of the cross-piece and a roof frame statically mounted to the roof mount;
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- an electronic roof actuator with a first end pivotally connected to the cross-piece and a second end pivotally connected to the roof mount;
- wherein the leg actuators and the roof actuator are operable in unison to raise and lower the roof so that the roof maintains a substantially constant attitude between a raised position and a lowered position.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.