Hydraulic and earth engineering – Marine vessel portage – launching – or removing – Dry dock
Patent
1991-06-05
1993-11-09
Taylor, Dennis L.
Hydraulic and earth engineering
Marine vessel portage, launching, or removing
Dry dock
405 2, 405 7, B63B 2302
Patent
active
052596940
ABSTRACT:
An improved personal watercraft launcher is disclosed having a deployable carriage mounted upon a dock surface and movable in a guided path between a stowed and deployed position. A cradle assembly affixed to the dock surface near to the water is equipped with a pair of opposed rollers inwardly directed to engage open channels of longitudinal rails on each side of the carriage. Guided by the roller engagement of the side rail channels and limited in travel by roller stops fixed along the side rails, the carriage is moved longitudinally through the cradle assembly along the dock surface from its stowed position with the watercraft carried directly upon adjustable support members secured to the carriage. As the carriage is moved longitudinally, the forward end thereof extends over the edge of the dock surface and, under continued roller engagement of the side rails, the carriage pivots about the rollers into the deployed position wherein the carriage is inclined in the water and retained to the dock surface within the cradle assembly for loading and unloading of the watercraft assisted by a winch mechanism secured atop the rearward end of the carriage.
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Ricci John A.
Taylor Dennis L.
Vozzo, Jr. Armand M.
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