Boat lift cable lock apparatus

Details Boat lift cable lock apparatus Boat lift cable lock apparatus

1997-10-14

1999-11-23

Bagnell, David

Hydraulic and earth engineering

Marine vessel portage, launching, or removing

Lifting

114 48, 187372, B63C 306

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059889411

ABSTRACT:
A boat lift locking apparatus is disclosed for releasably fastening a cable to a structural component of a boat lift. The apparatus includes a bracket secured to the structural component and having a channel, which has a relatively wide portion and a relatively narrow portion. A locking element is slidably mounted in the channel. The cable extends through the channel between the locking element and the bracket. The locking element is urged selectively toward the narrow portion of the channel to frictionally lock the cable between the locking element and the bracket and toward the wide portion of the channel to unlock the cable and permit the cable to slide longitudinally through the channel between the locking element and the bracket.

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patent: 4809408 (1989-03-01), Abrahamson
patent: 5553360 (1996-09-01), Lucas et al.
patent: 5628583 (1997-05-01), Gibson

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