Ships – Boats – boat component – or attachment – Boarding aids
Reexamination Certificate
2011-06-28
2011-06-28
Swinehart, Ed (Department: 3617)
Ships
Boats, boat component, or attachment
Boarding aids
Reexamination Certificate
active
07966962
ABSTRACT:
A boarding aid assists a person in embarking on and disembarking from a deployed dinghy having inflatable pontoon sides with inboard side portions providing opposite inboard side locations. A handgrip bar is supported by a support structure coupled with the dinghy at the opposite inboard side locations, at least substantially midway between the bottom and the gunwale of each pontoon side of the dinghy. When the support structure is in an erect position, the handgrip bar is placed across the beam of the dinghy, with the handgrip bar spaced from the bow and the stern of the dinghy, at an elevated position placing handgrips directly above gunwales of the pontoon sides, rendering a handgrip accessible for ready grasping by a person remaining essentially erect as the person steps aboard or leaves the dinghy. The support structure is selectively removable for stowing apart from the dinghy. In some embodiments, selective pivotal movement of the support structure away from an erect position enables the support structure to be collapsed into a position nested between the pontoon sides for compact stowing with the dinghy.
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Page from www.defender.com (admitted to be prior art).
Page from www.seaeagle.com, Sea Eagle Casting Bar for Foldcat, disclosure published as early as Oct. 11, 2007.
Jocob Arthur
Swinehart Ed
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