Ships – Mother ship – floating landing platform – and harbor – Floating boat dock
Patent
1994-01-12
1996-06-25
Avila, Stephen
Ships
Mother ship, floating landing platform, and harbor
Floating boat dock
B63B 3500
Patent
active
055290124
ABSTRACT:
A semi-flexible hinge for interconnecting a floating dock wherein the dock is comprised of a pair of floating, rectangular sections positioned end-to-end in spaced-apart relation. The adjacent ends of the floating dock sections each have a vertical, planar face, facing and parallel to the face of the adjacent dock section. The semi-flexible hinge includes a channel member mounted to each of said adjacent dock faces. Each channel member has a pair of opposing flanges extending horizontally and perpendicularly in relation to the dock face. Each channel member has a plurality of U-shaped knuckles mounted thereon. The knuckles are comprised of a length of semi-flexible material. A hinge pin passes through the aperture of the aligned knuckles attached to both channel members such that the dock sections can pivot, twist, and move vertically relative to one another. In another illustrative embodiment, the semi-flexible hinge includes top and bottom hinge straps interconnecting the floating dock sections. The hinge straps are arranged substantially parallel to one another, and are secured at each end to opposing flanges attached to each dock face.
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