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US 5,398,634 AGranted
Mooring of watercraft
OwnerJoe D. Eaganinventor
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Abstract
A watercraft mooring device is disclosed herein which comprises a tubular member having a rope extending through an interior bore so as to form a loop at each end of the tubular member, and which further extends exterior to the tubular member from a hole in the sidewall of the tubular member to one end of the rope. The other end of the rope is secured in the interior bore. In mooring a watercraft to another object, such as a dock, one loop is connected to a watercraft mooring member (i.e. cleat) and the other loop is connected to a dock mooring member. That portion of the rope extending from the sidewall hole is then cinched around the tubular member. A method of assembling the mooring device is also disclosed.
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A watercraft mooring device comprising:
- a tubular member having a sidewall with a sidewall hole therethrough, an interior bore, a capped first tube end with a first end hole and a second end hole therethrough, a capped second tube end with a first end hole and a second end hole therethrough;
- a rope having a first rope end and a second rope end, the rope extending from the first rope end exterior to the tubular member and through the sidewall hole into the interior bore, through the interior bore to the first tube end and through the first end hole of the first tube end, back to the first tube end and through the second end hole of the first tube end so as to form a first loop exterior to the tubular member and adjacent to the first tube end, through the interior bore to the second tube end and through the first end hole of the second tube end, back to the second tube end and through the second end hole of the second tube end to the second rope end within the interior bore so as to form a second loop exterior to the tubular member and adjacent to the second tube end, the second rope end in the interior bore being secured within such interior bore so as to prevent being pulled through the second end hole of the second tube end.
A method for assembling a boat mooring device comprising:
- (a) providing (i) a tubular member having a sidewall with a sidewall hole therethrough, an interior bore, an open first tube end, and an open second tube end, (ii) a first cap having a first cap hole and a second cap hole therethrough, (iii) a second cap having a first cap hole and a second cap hole therethrough, and (iv) a rope having a first rope end and a second rope end;
- (b) passing the second rope end through the sidewall hole, interior bore, and the cap holes of the first and second caps according to the following sequence--through the sidewall hole and into the interior bore, through the interior bore toward and through the first tube end, through the first cap hole of the first cap, through the second cap hole of the first cap so as to form a first loop, back into the interior bore, through the interior bore toward and through the second tube end, through the first cap hole of the second cap, through the second cap hole of the second cap so as to form a second loop, and back into the interior bore;
- (c) after passing the second rope end through the first cap hole of the first cap in (b), fixedly securing the first cap over and to the first tube;
- (d) after the second rope end is passed through the second cap hole of the second cap but before it is passed back in the interior bore in (b), providing a means near or at the second rope end to prevent pulling the second rope end back through the second cap hole of the second cap;
- (e) after (d), fixedly securing the second cap over and to the second tube end;
- wherein after the completion of each of steps (a)-(e), the first rope end remains exterior to the tubular member and the first and second loops are exterior to the tubular member and adjacent to the first and second tube ends, respectively.
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A method for mooring a watercraft to another object, wherein the object has a mooring member and the watercraft also has a mooring member, said method comprising:
- (a) providing a mooring device comprising (i) a tubular member having a sidewall with a sidewall hole therethrough, an interior bore, a capped first tube end with a first end hole and a second end hole therethrough, a capped second tube end with a first end hole and a second end hole therethrough;
- and (ii) a rope having a first rope end and a second rope end, the rope extending from the first rope end exterior to the tubular member and through the sidewall hole into the interior bore, through the interior bore to the first tube end and through the first end hole of the first tube end, back to the first tube end and through the second end hole of the first tube end so as to form a first loop exterior to the tubular member and adjacent to the first tube end, through the interior bore to the second tube end and through the first end hole of the second tube end, back to the second tube end and through the second end hole of the second tube end to the second rope end within the interior bore so as to form a second loop exterior to the tubular member and adjacent to the second tube end, the second rope end in the interior bore being secured within such interior bore so as to prevent being pulled through the second end hole of the second tube end;
- (b) connecting the first loop to the watercraft mooring member;
- (c) connecting the second loop to the object mooring member;
- (d) after steps (b) and (c), cinching that portion of the rope which extends from the first rope end to the sidewall hole around the tubular member.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.