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US 9,550,550 B1Granted
Tow rope terminal section with climb-aboard provisions
OwnerEric T. Housmaninventor
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Abstract
A tow-rope terminal section for watersports is provided for attachment to the end a tow rope and forming a final link to the inner tube or whatever inflated or floating towable. The tow-rope terminal section is provide with climb-aboard provisions so that fallen riders can climb back aboard the towable more easily.
Claims20
A tow rope terminal section for a floating watersports towable, comprising:
- climb-aboard provisions for a user to step upon and climb aboard the floating towable;
- a metallic weighted T-headed cleat;
- wherein one end of the tow-rope terminal section is fashioned into a loop end adapted for securing to a towable;
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- the other end secures the weighted metallic T-headed cleat which is adapted to secure to the terminal end of the tow rope;
- whereby at a stop, the combined tow rope and tow-rope terminal section fall slack, with the weighted metallic T-headed cleat sinking that end of the tow-rope terminal section down, and thereby stretching the tow-rope terminal section toward a vertical angle of repose, for better utilization by users as a climb-aboard assistant.
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A tow rope terminal section for a floating watersports towable, comprising:
- climb-aboard provisions for a user to step upon and climb aboard the floating towable;
- a rope frame which forms an axially elongated frame extending between spaced ends, wherein the climb-aboard provisions are hung from the rope frame;
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- an axially-elongated panel of flexible material wherein said axially-elongated rope frame defines an open interior which is substantially filled in by said axially elongated panel of flexible material, wherein the climb-aboard provisions are formed in or on the axially-elongated flexible panel.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.