Buoys – rafts – and aquatic devices – Water skimming or walking device – Surfboard
Patent
1990-12-17
1992-07-07
Sotelo, Jesus D.
Buoys, rafts, and aquatic devices
Water skimming or walking device
Surfboard
B63B 1900
Patent
active
051278600
ABSTRACT:
A modular receptacle to recess in a surfboard or the like for providing safe watertight containment of items placed therein having a body, two stringer clamps, a lid, a lid securing finger dial, a gasket for providing a watertight seal between the body and the lid and a washer for providing a watertight seal between the lid and the finger dial. The body is oblong and has two side walls, a front wall, a back wall and divider walls within forming separate compartments. There are openings in the front and back walls for the stringer clamps to push through onto a centered stringer of the surfboard therefor replacing shear strength lost from the surfboard due to the rout out opening necessary for a centered installation. A ledge is formed around the inner perimeter of the front, side and back walls serving as a gasket and lid rim seat. There is a post which extends up from the bottom wall of the body having female threads within. The lid is thin with four straight edges and is of exact size to fit within the walls of the body and rest on the ledge therein. The lid has a circular recess in the upper surface where a washer seats, and has a female threaded hole in an extension below the recess passing through to the center of the recess. The finger dial has a circular plate with indentations in the upper surface and a post which extends down from the center of the lower surface having male threads at the extremity. The male threads of the finger dial rotate through the female threaded hole in the extension below the circular recess in the lid. The lid seats on the gasket of the ledge within the walls of the body, then the male threads of the finger dial rotate down into the female threaded post within the body, therefor securing the lid to the body. When the lid and finger dial are snug they are flush with the upper edge of the body.
REFERENCES:
patent: 4955835 (1990-09-01), Hollingsworth
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