Ships – Fishing vessel
Patent
1996-11-26
1998-07-14
Basinger, Sherman
Ships
Fishing vessel
114343, 43 212, 248514, 403104, B63B 1700
Patent
active
057788170
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 inboard end above the T-top and which permits the outrigger pole to be rotated 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 an improved locking unit which includes (a) a tubular member that extends through the T-top, (b) an arcuate tube, that supports the inboard end of the outrigger pole, is rotatably carried in the tubular member and has a radial hole in its lower end, (c) a locking collar fixed to the bottom end of the tubular member and having a quadrant long horizontal slot in its middle portion, (d) the inside end of a pin member extends through the radial hole & the horizontal slot and its outside end has a shackle, (e) a lever rod is pivoted at one end to the shackle and (f) the locking collar has indexing lugs to retain the lever rod in different circumferential positions. To reposition the outrigger pole, the lever rod is pulled out of one indexing lug, moved sideways and then pushed into a different indexing lug.
REFERENCES:
patent: 4993346 (1991-02-01), Rupp
patent: 5592893 (1997-01-01), Jordan, III et al.
Basinger Sherman
Palmer Carroll F.
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