Ships – Mooring device – Boom type
Patent
1978-06-05
1980-02-26
Sotelo, Jesus D.
Ships
Mooring device
Boom type
114218, B63B 2100
Patent
active
041900111
ABSTRACT:
A boat mooring apparatus comprising two main units, namely, a boat mooring line apparatus and a boat mooring cleat apparatus, used to releasably secure a boat to a mooring post.
The boat mooring line apparatus constitutes a mooring line of a given diameter with several bulges spaced therealong, the bulges having a diameter greater than that of the mooring line, with the distal end of the line comprising a slip-loop. The cleat apparatus includes two substantially parallel spaced apart members which between them define a slot that is as wide as the diameter of the mooring line, but narrower than the diameter of any bulge on the line. The parallel spaced members are transversely registered at one end where they are affixed to a mounting plate for securement to a boat. One member is inverted U-shaped so that it rises from the boat, thereafter extends along and spaced from the boat, and then extends back to the boat. Because the slot is narrower than any one of the bulges, the facing edges of the spaced apart members define a stop for at least one of the bulges to prevent removal of the mooring line proximal end from the cleat by a tensile force along the line. However, the mooring line can be deliberately removed from the cleat by applying a force normal to the line in a direction away from the transversely registered ends.
REFERENCES:
patent: 2229471 (1941-01-01), Powers
patent: 3083676 (1963-04-01), Andersen
patent: 4109603 (1978-08-01), Guthmann
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