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US 2010/0058968 A1Published application
Anchor
OwnerRex William Francisinventor
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Abstract
An anchor includes a base member (10), having a leading end or toe (26), associated therewith, the base member (10) being formed from opposed, interconnected substantially triangular shaped flukes (20, 30), and a shank member (100) extending upwardly therefrom and attached thereto. The lateral and rear free edge of each fluke (20, 30) have extensions (22, 32 and 23, 33) associated therewith and depending angularly therefrom. All free edges of the anchor are other than blunt. The base member (10) includes one or more apertures, slots or discontinuing extending therethrough.
Claims13
An improved anchor including:
- a base member, one end thereof constituting a leading end of said anchor and being adapted to assist in anchorage/embedding of said anchor within a given holding;
- and a shank member fixedly attached to said base member, said shank member being adapted, in use, to receive and releasably retain at least one anchor line, rope or cable, wherein said base member is of a substantial delta shape or configuration when viewed in plan and with a vortex of said delta shape constituting said leading end of said anchor, and wherein said base member includes opposed respective first and second flukes, each of said flukes being substantially triangular in shape when viewed in plan, said opposed flukes being disposed at an angle to one another and being joined along a line which constitutes a central longitudinal axis for said base member, wherein each free edge of each fluke is other than blunt whereby to constitute a cutting, digging or scraping means for embedding said anchor.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.