Ships – Mother ship – floating landing platform – and harbor – Floating boat dock
Patent
1994-12-27
1996-02-27
Swinehart, Edwin L.
Ships
Mother ship, floating landing platform, and harbor
Floating boat dock
B63B 3544
Patent
active
054939925
ABSTRACT:
An apparatus for attachment to a dock to permit a person to take a dock in or out of the water including a pair of cylindrical flotation members, the cylindrical flotation members having sufficient buoyancy to support a water end of a dock with a person thereon, each of the cylindrical flotation members having extensions for positioning the flotation members laterally on opposite sides of a dock, the flotation members pivotable from a non-dock supporting position to a dock-supporting position, each of the cylindrical floatation members having sufficient diameter to enable the cylindrical flotation members to roll over land like a wheel.
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