1987-12-07
1988-09-27
Basinger, Sherman D.
Ships
Fenders
405212, 267 30, B63B 6902
Patent
active
047733497
ABSTRACT:
A boat dock bumper including an elongated vertical plate having an inner face and an outer face. A spring steel strap attached to the inner face of the plate and disposed to bow away from the inner face. The strap is attached at one end of the plate by a sliding attachment and at the other end of the plate by a pivoting attachment. Means are provided by way of a plate for attaching the strap to a boat dock such that the outer face of the plate will contact the hull of an approaching watercraft. The plate is movable between an at-rest position and a compressed position when contacted by a watercraft.
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Basinger Sherman D.
Swinehart Edwin L.
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