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US 2022/0033036 A1Published application
Dual folding boat tower
OwnerScott J Mills, Richard W. Hordinventors
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Abstract
This invention relates to a dual folding boat tower and especially to a boat tower and boat tower top assembly for folding the boat tower and tower top from a storage or down position to an erect or running position.
Claims11
A dual folding boat tower and tower top comprising:
- a pair of gunwale brackets for attachment to the gunwales of a boat;
- a pair of upwardly extending arms, each arm being hingedly attached to one said gunwale bracket, each said arm having an upper and a lower portion;
- a lower arm actuator located in said lower portion of each said upwardly extending arm and being operatively connected to one said gunwale bracket for driving each said upwardly extending arm from a lower storage position to a generally upright position;
- a tower top hingedly attached to each said upwardly extending arm upper portion;
- a tower top actuator located in each said upper extending arm upper portion operatively connected to said tower top for rotating said tower top from a folded storage position to an operative covering position while said upwardly extending arm is going from a folded storage position to a generally upright position;
- whereby a dual folding boat tower and tower top may be moved between a folded storage position and raised operative positions with an extended tower top.
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A dual folding boat tower and tower top comprising:
- a pair of gunwale brackets for attachment to the gunwales of a boat;
- a pair of upwardly extending arms, each arm being hingedly attached to one said gunwale bracket, each said arm having an upper and a lower portion;
- a lower arm electric motor actuator located in said lower portion of each said upwardly extending arm and attached to sale lower portion of each said upwardly extending arm and being operatively connected to one said gunwale bracket for driving each said upwardly extending arm from a lower storage position to a generally upright position;
- a tower top hingedly attached to each said upwardly extending arm upper portion;
- a tower top electric motor actuator located in each said upper extending arm upper portion attached to said upwardly extending arm upper portion and operatively connected to said tower top for rotating said tower top from a folded storage position to an operative covering position while said upwardly extending arm is going from a folded storage position to a generally upright position;
- whereby a dual folding boat tower and tower top may be moved between a folded storage position and raised operative positions with an extended tower top.
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