Frame rail assemblies and interlocking frame rail systems
AssigneeDockstar Marine Systems, Inc.
InventorSteven Edward DeMay
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Abstract
A frame rail assembly for a boat dock structure includes a frame rail member and a removable resilient rub-rail member. The frame rail member includes a first side configured for securing the frame rail member to a side of the boat dock structure; a second side opposing the first side; a first channel extending along a length of the frame rail member; and a second channel below the first channel, the second channel extending along the length of the frame rail member. An interlocking frame rail system for boat dock structures includes a first frame rail member, a second frame rail member, and an upper connector member extending along at least a portion of a length of the first frame rail member and at least a portion of the length of a second frame rail member.
Claims13
(canceled)
A method of associating a frame rail assembly to an existing boat dock structure comprising the steps of:
- providing a frame rail member comprising a body having a first side and a generally opposing second side, said first side having at least a first portion defining a generally planar face;
- abutting said generally planar face of said first side of said frame rail member against a generally planar, vertically extending face of said existing boat dock structure;
- connecting said frame rail member to said generally planar, vertically extending face of said existing boat dock structure;
- and
- locating a removable resilient rub-rail member at said second side so that said resilient rub-rail member projects outward from the second side along at least a portion of the length of the frame rail member.
A method of associating a frame rail assembly to an existing boat dock structure comprising the steps of:
- providing a frame rail member comprising a body having a top, a bottom, a first side and a generally opposing second side, said first side defining a generally planar face extending upwardly from said bottom towards said top;
- abutting said generally planar face of said first side of said frame rail member against a generally planar, vertically extending face of said existing boat dock structure;
- connecting said frame rail member to said generally planar, vertically extending face of said existing boat dock structure;
- and
- locating a removable resilient rub-rail member at said second side so that said resilient rub-rail member projects outward from the second side along at least a portion of the length of the frame rail member.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.