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US 7,063,033 B1Granted
Stackable watercraft float system
OwnerJeffrey Jacksoninventor
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Abstract
A pair of spaced parallel female slots or grooves located on the bottom of a watercraft float enable the pair of spaced parallel male ribs or rails located on top of a float to fit within the slots or grooves on the bottom of another float when the watercraft floats are interconnected or stacked on top of each other.
Claims10
A stackable watercraft float system comprising:
- a watercraft float comprising a buoyant body having a top surface and a bottom surface, a front end, a back end and two sides;
- the top surface comprising a flat top surface adjacent to the two sides and the back end of the watercraft float having a pair of protruding spaced parallel tracks along a portion of the length of the watercraft float and a recessed boat receiving trough and a sloping boat ramp between the pair of protruding spaced parallel tracks, the sloping boat ramp extending downwardly from the boat receiving trough to a low boat receiving edge positioned below a level of the water at a front end of the watercraft float, with the watercraft float in a body of water, to receive a watercraft driven from a body of water surrounding the watercraft float up the ramp into the recessed boat receiving trough with the pair of protruding spaced parallel tracks acting as guides for directing the watercraft into the boat receiving trough;
- the bottom surface comprising a flat bottom surface with a pair of spaced parallel indented slots in the bottom of the watercraft float directly below the pair of protruding spaced parallel tracks on the top surface, the pair of spaced parallel indented slots configured to receive and mate with a pair of protruding spaced parallel tracks from another similar watercraft float positioned directly below the watercraft float in a stacked array comprising an upper watercraft float and a lower watercraft float with a flat top surface of the lower watercraft float contacting the flat bottom surface of the upper watercraft float so that a number of the watercraft floats can be stacked together for transportation and storage in a stacked array with the tracks and slots interlocking to secure the stacked array which takes up less vertical space than watercraft floats with no bottom slots to receive the top tracks;
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- a means for securing the watercraft float to a stationary mooring.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.