US 4,751,892 AGranted

Marine standoff

OwnerDaniel Sechel, Dennis DeTillio +1inventors

InventorsDaniel Sechel, Dennis DeTillio, Alan Szucs

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Abstract

A marine standoff that maintains a watercraft at a fixed distance from a dock or wharf. The marine standoff may be used as a portable unit and stored on board the watercraft or may be used as a fixed unit and left permanently attached to a fixed mooring point. A preferred embodiment includes an attaching hook/clip combination on one end of the marine standoff and an elastomer tip at the other end of the marine standoff through which a line is passed through at the elastomer tip end. A stainless steel cable is attached to the safety clip portion of the hook, said cable being housed within the interior chamber of the marine standoff. The cable end which is remote from the hook is connected to an exterior pull ring which allows the remote release of the safety clip for easy removal of the standoff from a docking device such as a cleat or ring.

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Dependent claims

A mooring device for boats comprising:

an elongated tubular handle member having first and second terminating ends, said first terminating end affixed to a snap-hook member, said second terminating end provided with an elastomer tip and with at least a pair of bores through said elastomer tip and said second terminating end for receiving a line member, said snap-hook member further including a spring biased locking arm, said spring biased locking arm biased in a direction toward the open portion of said snap-hook member, operative means passing through an interior chamber described by said elongated tubular handle member and in which said operative means exits the interior chamber at a point remote from the snap-hook member connected to said locking arm for providing for the remote operation of said locking arm, said snap-hook member designed to be connected to a cleat member at one end and said elastomer tip end connected to a docking point, said operative means used to open said locking arm for the disengagement of said snap-hook member from a cleat member.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.