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US 4,050,706 AGranted
Ski carry
OwnerRachel Kronstadtinventor
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Abstract
A ski tow for use in transporting skis, packages or other miscellaneous articles in areas where travel by automobile or snowmobile is hazardous or inconvenient has been developed. This tow consists of two ski runners which serve as the base of the device and which therefore allows the tow to travel on ice or snow. Several carrying devices such as a ski rack or a package container are removably attached to an upright frame affixed to the ski runners.
Claims6
A modular tow device, adaptable to travel on snow, for the transportion of miscellaneous articles, comprising:
- two parallel runner means for allowing the device to travel on snow;
- a plurality of removable carrier means, each having depending posts;
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- frame means attached to said runner means for receiving and holding each said removable carrier means in place, one at a time, said frame means comprising upstanding posts, each connected at one end thereof to one of said runner means and adapted to removably receive one of said depending posts of each said removable carrier means at the other end, said upstanding posts and said depending posts being in alignment and adapted to be removably secured together, and horizontal bars connecting upstanding posts on opposite runners, whereby the relative positions of said upstanding posts are assured,
- wherein one of said removable carrier means is a rack means specifically adapted for carrying skis, said ski rack means comprising two supports each having said depending posts, and ski holders mounted between said depending posts of each of said supports, said ski holders on each of said supports being in alignment and adapted to hold skis to be transported by the tow device, and another of said removable carrier means is a container means for carrying packages, said package container means including a substantially horizontal floor portion on which the packages may be carried.
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