Wind powered cleaning and polishing flap for boat rails
OwnerCharles Francisinventor
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Abstract
This handrail polishing flap is designed to depend from boat handrails when the boat is not in use, so as to clean and polish the handrails by wind power only. Primarily, it consists of a panel with a bristled plastic strip in the longitudinal middle portion that contains a cleaning and polishing agent that engages with the handrail. Mating hook and loop pile fasteners are secured to the flap for holding it together on the handrail, and pockets are provided in the end portion that depends downward from the handrail, for returning the flap to its full downward position after each movement back and forth caused by the wind.
Claims4
A wind powered cleaning and polishing flap for boat handrails. comprising, a panel that drapes over a boat handrail, a bristled plastic strip secured to an inside surface said panel, providing for engagement with an outer periphery of said handrail and retaining a cleaning and polishing agent, mating hook and loop pile fasteners secured to said panel for retaining said draped panel on said handrail, and pockets secured to said panel, for removably receiving lead weights that provide a means for said panel to depend downwards from said handrail after each movement caused by wind force reacting on the surface of said draped panel.
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