Collapsible trailer
OwnerRobert Gordon Shawyerinventor
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Abstract
A collapsible trailer has a trailer frame adapted to support a boat or marine vessel, the trailer frame including at least one longitudinal member and at least a pair of transverse members and at least two wheels, the wheels removably associated with opposed ends of a first of the pair of transverse members and marine vessel support means removably associated with the other of the pair of transverse members wherein the trailer frame is adapted to assume a use condition with the wheels attached for supporting a boat or marine vessel on the trailer and a collapsed condition with the wheels removed in which the trailer occupies less space than in the use condition.
Claims24
A collapsible trailer comprising a trailer frame adapted to support a boat or marine vessel, the trailer frame including:
- at least two longitudinal members, one of the longitudinal members being a main longitudinal member;
- at least a pair of transverse members rotatably coupled to the main longitudinal member for movement relative to the main longitudinal member in a substantially horizontal plane;
- at least two wheels, the wheels removably associated with opposed ends of a first of the pair of transverse members;
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- marine vessel support means removably associated with the other of the pair of transverse members, wherein
- the trailer frame is adapted to assume a use condition with the wheels attached and the transverse members being substantially perpendicular to the main longitudinal member for supporting a boat or marine vessel on the trailer and a collapsed condition with the wheels removed and the main longitudinal member being substantially coplanar with the pair of transverse members in which the trailer occupies less space than in the use condition.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.