US 5,025,746 A · Sea anchor assembly for kayak

Abstract

A sea anchor assembly for a kayak having two ends and one or more occupant seats, the assembly comprising: an anchor assembly comprising joined end-to-end in succession, an anchoring rope, a collapsible sea anchor, a deployment rope and a float, a ring secured near one end of the kayak, a cleat to releasably secure the anchor rope and the deployment rope proximate the seat, a tubular cover to removably retain the sea anchor therein in a collapsed condition, the cover secured to the kayak between the ring and the rope securing cleat, the anchor assembly extending from an end of the anchoring rope at the rope anchoring through the tubular cover and then through the ring to the float, wherein, with the collapsed sea anchor in the cover, on pulling the deployment rope, the deployment rope on passing through the ring draws the sea anchor out from the cover then through the ring for deployment in water, and wherein, with the sea anchor deployed, pulling the anchoring rope draws the sea anchor through the ring and into the cover with the sea anchor being collapsed on being draw through the ring.

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Dependent claims

An assembly for deployment and storage of a collapsible sea anchor comprising:

(a) elongate strap means having fastening means at each end;
(b) ring means secured to the strap means near a first end of the strap means;
(c) elongate tubular cover means open at both ends thereof and secured to the strap means to lie along the length of the strap means with a first of the open ends near a second end of the strap means and a second of the open ends between the first end of the cover means and the first end of the strap means;
and
(d) a sea anchor assembly comprising joined end-to-end in sequence:
anchoring rope means;
collapsible sea anchor means;
deployment rope means;
and float means,
the sea anchor assembly extending longitudinally through the cover means and through the ring means,
in a storage configuration, the sea anchor means disposed within the cover means with the anchoring rope means extending out said first open end of the cover means and the deployment rope means extending out said second open end of the cover means and then through the ring means to the float,
the sea anchor means deployable from the cover means and through the ring means by drawing the deployment rope means,
the sea anchor means retractable from an expanded open position in use, by drawing the anchor rope means to draw the sea anchor means through the ring means and into the cover.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Sea anchor assembly for kayak

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Sea anchor assembly for kayak

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Abstract

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