Ships – Fishing vessel
Patent
1996-11-26
1998-04-14
Basinger, Sherman
Ships
Fishing vessel
43 212, 114343, 248514, 403104, B63B 3514
Patent
active
057380350
ABSTRACT:
An improved locking unit is disclosed for outrigger devices that are installed on a T-top equipped motorboat that has an outrigger pole supported by its bottom end portion above the T-top and which permits the outrigger pole to be moved by rotation of the lower end portion from a stowage position to a trolling position and vis versa by a person safely standing in the motorboat in the shelter of the T-top by manipulation of locking unit. Such locking unit includes (a) a tubular member, (b) a cylindrical collar fixed to the tubular member, (c) an indexing ring carried on the collar and having a plurality of side opening cavities, (d) a compression feature on the indexing ring selectively to prevent or permit such ring's rotation on the collar, (e) a rotation ring carrying a locking lever and (f) an arcuate tube that supports the bottom end of the outrigger pole is rotatably carried in the tubular member and is pinned to the rotation ring. To reposition the outrigger pole, the locking lever is moved out of one cavity, moved circumferentially and then reinserted into a different cavity.
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Basinger Sherman
Palmer Carroll F.
Rupp Marine Inc.
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