US 4,227,832 AGranted

Dockside protective device for boats

OwnerAnthony J. Leone, Raymond A. Leone +1inventors

InventorsAnthony J. Leone, Raymond A. Leone, James Long

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Abstract

A generally cylindrical member and a vertically extending H-member with mounting brackets for fixed mounting relative to a support member such as a piling in a boat docking area are provided, the H-member is fixed as by bolts in a vertical relation to the side of a piling which would normally contact a boat, docked adjacent thereto. The cylindrical member includes a normally deformed T-slot vertically along a vertical inner side thereof for frictional sliding engagement over the outer T-portion of the H-member. One or more of the cylindrical members may be supported in an end to end relation to extend to any desired depth in the water and distance above the water surface on a single elongated H-member to accommodate the depth of the water as well as the extremes of tidal flow and wave action in any particular locale.

Claims12

Dependent claims

For attachment relative to a vertical member such as a piling in a boat docking area, a protective device for boats comprising:

an elongated vertically extending H-like beam having an inner portion with means for fixedly mounting the beam to a piling-like boat docking structure, and an outer T-shaped portion extending horizontally from the inner portion along the vertical length of the beam,
an elongated vertically extending, resilient protective member having
a top end,
a bottom end,
an outside abutment surface,
a T-shaped inner wall vertically extending from the top end to the bottom end of the protective member, the T-shaped inner wall defining a seam, the seam being distended and enlarged at both ends of the protective member defining distorted T-shaped openings, and gripper means for gripping the outer T-shaped portion of the H-beam, and means for supporting and positioning the protective member on the beam.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.