Pivotal surfboard fin assembly
OwnerRobert W. Foulkeinventor
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Abstract
A pivotal surfboard fin assembly for use on a surfboard, the assembly comprising: an insert bracket having a board face mountable to the bottom surface of the surfboard and a bracket face with a lock pin aperture and a flex plug cavity; an elastomeric flex plug having a flex plug hole, a first flex plug surface, and a second flex plug surface, the flex plug disposed in the flex plug cavity; a surfboard fin having a fin blade, a mounting edge, a flex pin channel, a fixed lock pin mountable to the surfboard fin and disposable into the lock pin aperture, a biased flex pin slidably disposable into the flex pin channel and the flex plug hole; and a first compression pin and a second compression pin engaged with the insert bracket and operative to laterally compress the flex plug.
Claims18
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A pivotal surfboard fin assembly for use with a surfboard, the assembly comprising:
- an insert bracket mountable to the surfboard and defining a board face and an opposing bracket face, the insert bracket having a lock pin aperture and a flex pin cavity each extending from the bracket face toward the board face;
- an elastomeric flex plug disposed within the flex plug cavity, the flex plug having a flex plug hole formed therein;
- a surfboard fin pivotally connected to the insert bracket and having a fixed lock pin configured to be insertable within the lock pin aperture, and a flex pin disposable within the flex plug hole;
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- a compression element coupled to the insert bracket and configured to compress the elastomeric flex plug to control pivotal movement of the surfboard fin relative to the insert bracket.
A pivotal surfboard fin assembly for use with a surfboard, the assembly comprising:
- an insert bracket mountable to the surfboard;
- a surfboard fin pivotally connected to the insert bracket;
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- an adjustable pivotal restriction element coupled to the insert bracket and configured to allow selective adjustment of the pivotal movement of the surfboard fin relative to the insert bracket.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.