Ships – Life craft handling device – apparatus – or implement – Davit
Patent
1992-07-22
1993-11-16
Peters, Jr., Joseph F.
Ships
Life craft handling device, apparatus, or implement
Davit
114 44, 114268, 405 3, B63B 2302
Patent
active
052613470
ABSTRACT:
A sailboat davit connectable into the ground adjacent a seawall, water's edge or other like supportive objects for lifting and lowering a small sailboat. The device includes an elongated upright support member having a radially outwardly extending boom connected at one end to the upper end of the upright support member. A generally horizontal spreader beam is connected at a mid-point thereof to the distal end of the boom so that the spreader beam extends in either direction preferably from a plane generally defined by the upright support member and the boom. A flexible cable and pulley arrangement, winch-activated, is provided having a flexible cable downwardly extending over a pulley at each end of the spreader beam, each end of each cable being connectable to the sailboat hull whereupon the sailboat is lifted and lowered in response to winch activation. A preferably U-shaped bracket is connected at one end of the spreader beam structured to slidably engage around the sailboat mast to maintain the sailboat in upright orientation during lifting and lowering.
REFERENCES:
patent: 2045603 (1936-06-01), Hyland
patent: 3045839 (1962-07-01), Hibberd
patent: 3101149 (1963-08-01), Hurst
patent: 4361947 (1982-12-01), Arnaud
Bartz Clifford T.
Peters Jr. Joseph F.
Prescott Charles J.
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