US 4,398,849 AGranted

Portable dock

AssigneeHighland Agro Inc.

InventorsJames S. Moran, Marlo W. Groezinger

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Abstract

A portable dock and dock sections used therewith, characterized by each of the dock sections have a plurality of frame members forming a rectangular deck frame for supporting a deck assembly, a pair of adjustable legs extending from adjacent one end of the rectangular deck frame and a first coupling unit disposed on a frame member at the other end of the deck frame. Preferably, an additional or second coupling unit, which is adapted to cooperate with a first coupling unit, is arranged either on an end or side frame member or both at the one end to enable connecting sections together to form either a straight line pier or a pier with a "T" or "L" shape. The portable dock also includes an anchor section having an anchor member with a similar coupling unit which coact with the first coupling unit of a first dock section for securing the first dock section to the beach or shoreline.

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Dependent claims

A dock section for a portable dock composed of an anchor section and at least one dock section detachably interconnected to each other to form a pier, each dock section comprising a rectangular deck frame having a pair of side frame members, a first end frame member and a second end frame member to form a supporting surface for a removable deck assembly;

a pair of leg members secured to the deck frame adjacent the second end frame member;
first coupling means being provided at the first end frame member for connecting the first end frame member to another section and second coupling means on at least one of the frame members forming the pair side frame members and second end frame member to enable forming an interlocking connection with a first coupling means of another section, each of said first and second coupling means being formed by a pair of strap members, each strap member having a first portion extending from a bottom of the frame member in a plane approximately parallel to the supporting surface of the deck frame for a distance slightly greater than cross sectional dimensional of a frame member and terminating in an upwardly extending second portion forming substantially a right angle with the first portion, said pair of strap members of the first coupling means having a different spacing therebetween than the pair of strap members for the second coupling means so that one of the pairs is received between the other pairs when forming an interlocking connection with each pair engaging the frame member associated with the other pair.

A portable dock comprising an anchor section;

at least one dock section;
and means for interlockingly connecting the sections together;
said anchor section comprising an anchor member having anchoring means disposed at each end;
each dock section having a rectangular deck frame having a pair of side frame members and first and second end frame members, a pair of leg members secured to the deck frame adjacent the second end frame member and decking material being disposed on said rectangular deck frame;
said means comprising said first end frame member and the anchor member of the anchor section each having a pair of strap elements with a first portion extending outwardly therefrom beneath the other member and terminating in a second portion upstanding at right angles to the first portion to interlockingly connect the anchor section to the first end frame member.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.