Portable manual boat hull cleaner
OwnerRobert V. Attaway, Charles E. Rodgers, Jr.inventors
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Abstract
A portable manual boat hull cleaner is disclosed in which a plurality of cleaning loops are attached to a strap having handles at either end, said cleaning loops comprising support pads sandwiched between a strap and a detachable scrubbing pad by two anchor flaps. The cleaning loops are placed at regular intervals along the length of the strap. The entire cleaning device may be placed beneath the hull of a boat and moved back and forth in the manner of a shoe shine rag to remove marine growth from the submerged surface of a boat hull.
Claims21
A boat hull cleaning device comprising:
- an elongated strap extending between a pair of longitudinally spaced apart ends having an upper surface;
- a plurality of cleaning loops attached to and extending above said upper surface;
- a plurality of support cushions attached to and extending above said upper surface and below said cleaning loop;
- wherein each of said plurality of support cushions comprises a deformable buoyant cylinder of a form having a diameter no greater than the distance between said elongated strap and said cleaning loop.
A boat hull cleaning device comprising in combination:
- an elongated strap extending between a pair of longitudinally spaced apart ends and having an upper surface and a lower surface;
- a plurality of cleaning loops disposed along said upper surface, each of said cleaning loops comprising a pair of spaced apart anchor flaps, each having a first flap end attached to said upper surface and a second flap end attached to a scrubbing pad, and a support cushion attached to said upper surface of said elongated strap under said scrubbing pad.
A boat hull cleaning device comprising in combination:
- an elongated strap extending between a pair of longitudinally spaced apart ends and having an upper surface and a lower surface;
- a plurality of cleaning loops attached to and extending above said upper surface of said elongated strap, and a support cushion attached to said upper surface of said elongated strap and disposed between each of said plurality of cleaning loops and said elongated strap, wherein each of said plurality of cleaning loops comprises a selectively detachable scrubbing pad located substantially at the center of said cleaning loop attached to said elongated strap by a pair of anchor flaps.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.