# US 4,392,833 A · Combined single and double water ski tow bar

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- Number: US 4,392,833 A
- Document ID: US4392833A
- Status: Granted
- Kind: A
- Application number: 06/294,480
- Filed: 1981-08-20
- Granted: 1983-07-12
- Earliest claimed: 1981-08-20
- Inventors: Gary N. Hayden
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US4392833A

## CPC

- B63B 34/63: Holding means for the user, e.g. handle bars or harnesses
- B63B: SHIPS OR OTHER WATERBORNE VESSELS; EQUIPMENT FOR SHIPPING (arrangements of vessel ventilation, heating, cooling, or air-conditioning B63J2/00; floating substructures as supports of dredgers or soil-shifting machines E02F9/06)

## Abstract

A water ski tow bar is arranged to form a single tow bar or handle for a water skier being towed by a boat or the like and separable into two tow bars or handles which may be used by the water skier being towed by the same boat.

## Claims

### Claim 1

An improvement in a water ski tow device comprising a tow rope for attachment at one end to a towing boat, said tow rope having four separate sections at its opposite end and a tow bar for a skier attached to said four sections of the tow rope, said tow bar comprising a pair of elongated body members, each having first and second ends, means on said first ends detachably joined to one another so as to position said elongated body members in end to end assembled relation, detachable members on the outer opposite second ends of said elongated body members, said improvement comprising means attaching said four end sections of said tow rope to said elongated body members and said detachable members respectively, said means comprising two of said four sections of said tow rope being attached to said detachable members and two of said four sections of said tow rope being attached to said outer opposite second ends of said elongated body members adjacent said detachable members, said detachable members when detached from said outer opposite second ends of said elongated body members being engagable with said means on said first ends of said elongated body members whereby two tow bars, each having two of said four sections of said tow rope attached to its ends may be formed from said tow bar.