Ships – Boats – boat component – or attachment – With wheeled buoyant landing or launching aid
Patent
1979-08-15
1982-10-19
Basinger, Sherman D.
Ships
Boats, boat component, or attachment
With wheeled buoyant landing or launching aid
114 61, 280 432, 2804142, B63C 1300
Patent
active
043542905
ABSTRACT:
A convertible house trailer comprises a cabin portion containing the living quarters, a road wheel assembly, by which the cabin is supported on land, and having a movable linkage connecting the road wheels to the cabin. The road wheels may be retracted upwardly, when the structure is used on the water. Typically four floats, comprising front floats and rear floats, are attached beneath the cabin on a movable linkage, each of the floats comprising a flat-bottomed elongated float structure with the bottom surface of the floats being directed downwardly. An extension mechanism is connected between the cabin and the floats which may be operated so as to extend the floats from a first upwardly retracted position, downwardly into a second position, in which they are extended beneath the cabin at a slight outward angle for use on the water, when in motion, and a third fully outwardly spread position, when the floats are extended outwardly to either side of the cabin, for use in a moored or stationary condition.
REFERENCES:
patent: 1626185 (1927-04-01), Coder et al.
patent: 3172134 (1965-03-01), Livingstone
patent: 3709185 (1973-01-01), Hennel
patent: 3755838 (1973-09-01), Dunagan
Beecroft Julian B.
Tevruchte William B.
Basinger Sherman D.
Smith Robert S.
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