Pile mooring device for boats
OwnerGerard B. Godvin, Charles F. Kolb, Jr.inventors
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Abstract
A hollow toroidal member of high-strength material for withstanding mooring loads has a central opening which slips over a mooring pile. A reinforcing ring is preferably secured in the core of the member to provide additional load-bearing capability to the device. A pair of diametrically opposite mooring openings are formed in the member and ring each opening for receiving a boat mooring line, the openings in the member and ring being aligned. The member is preferably molded with its core in fluid isolation from the ambient atmosphere to provide buoyancy. In the alternative, the core is filled with floatation material. A pair of apertured legs may be used in place of the openings in the member for securing the mooring lines thereto.
Claims20
A mooring device for use with a plurality of conventional wooden cylindrical mooring piles exhibiting a plurality of corresponding different outer diameters and surface roughness to which a boat is to be moored, said device comprising:
- an annular member of any geometric annular outer peripheral shape arranged to float on water, said member having a central opening sufficiently large for receiving any of said piles therethrough in spaced relation thereto, said opening being dimensioned to permit the member to slide along the received pile in response to changes in water level about the received pile, said member including means arranged to withstand mooring loads induced therein by said boat;
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- means for securing a mooring line to said member.
A mooring device for use with a plurality of conventional wooden cylindrical mooring piles exhibiting a plurality of corresponding different external diameters and surface roughness to which a boat is to be moored, said device comprising:
- a generally toroidal hollow core member arranged to float on water, said core being toroidal, said member having a central opening sufficiently large for receiving any of said piles therethrough in spaced relation thereto, said opening being arranged to permit the member to slide along the received pile in response to changes in water level about the received pile, said member including means for withstanding stresses induced by a boat moored thereto;
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- aperture means coupled to the member for receiving and securing a mooring line to said member.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.