Shallow draft surfboard fin mount

Details Shallow draft surfboard fin mount Shallow draft surfboard fin mount

1998-01-20

1999-08-10

Basinger, Sherman

Buoys, rafts, and aquatic devices

Water skimming or walking device

Having stabilizing surface

114140, B63B 338, B63B 100

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059349620

ABSTRACT:
In a surfboard of the type including spaced-apart top and bottom surfaces and an elongated recess formed therebetween for removably anchoring the base of a surfboard fin therein, a shallow draft surfboard fin socket for location in the recess in bonded engagement therewith including an elongated housing including a narrow bottom wall, spaced-apart upstanding elongated side walls, and spaced-apart upstanding short front and rear end walls, all joined together along their intersecting marginal edges to form an elongated cavity configured to receive therein the base of the fin, a flange extending outward from the side and end walls for location between the top and bottom surfboard surfaces, the housing side and end walls extending above the flange a distance sufficient to locate the upper marginal edges of the walls above the bottom surface of the surfboard and, first and second recesses formed in the front and rear housing walls respectively, interior the cavity, for receipt therein of a protrusion, formed at the front of the fin base, and a notch, formed at the rear of the fin base, for receipt therein of a clip to hold the fin in the cavity.

REFERENCES:
patent: 3422471 (1969-01-01), Morey et al.
patent: 4379703 (1983-04-01), Mizell
patent: 4804347 (1989-02-01), Ross
patent: 5215488 (1993-06-01), Bailey
patent: 5830025 (1998-11-01), Fleming

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