Outboard engine kick-up jacking plate
OwnerDavid E. Vance, JR.inventor
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Abstract
An integrated jack plate and kick up bracket is provided that is useful and safe even at relatively high boat speeds (e.g., in excess of 10 miles per hour). The bracket uses a jack plate to raise and lower an outboard. The jack plate is hingedly connected to the boat transom such that the jack plate assembly can rotate if the outboard has not been raised high enough to clear a submerged obstacle which the lower unit of the outboard motor strikes. Rotation of the jack assembly about the hinge is limited by a limiting strap affixed to the transom (or transom mounted portion of the bracket) and a lower portion of the jack assembly.
Claims20
An outboard motor mounting bracket comprising:
- a hull mount configured to mount to a boat hull, said hull mount having an upper attachment point and a lower attachment point;
- a motor plate configured to support an outboard motor;
- a jack assembly having an upper attachment point and a lower attachment point, wherein:
- the upper attachment point of the jack assembly is configured to hingedly engage the upper attachment point of the hull mount;
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- the jack assembly is configured to support the motor plate and selectively adjust a vertical offset of the motor plate relative to the jack assembly;
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- a limiting strap configured to connect the lower attachment point of the hull mount to the lower attachment point of the jack assembly such that a distance between the lower attachment point of the hull mount and the lower attachment point of the jack assembly is limited to a length of the limiting strap.
A boat comprising:
- a boat hull;
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- an outboard motor mounting bracket, said outboard motor bracket comprising:
- a hull mount configured to mount to a boat hull, said hull mount having an upper attachment point and a lower attachment point;
- a motor plate configured to support an outboard motor;
- a jack assembly having an upper attachment point and a lower attachment point, wherein:
- the upper attachment point of the jack assembly is configured to hingedly engage the upper attachment point of the hull mount;
- and
- the jack assembly is configured to support the motor plate and selectively adjust a vertical offset of the motor plate relative to the jack assembly;
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- a limiting strap configured to connect the lower attachment point of the hull mount to the lower attachment point of the jack assembly such that a distance between the lower attachment point of the hull mount and the lower attachment point of the jack assembly is limited to a length of the limiting strap.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.