Track and slide assembly for sailboats

Details Track and slide assembly for sailboats Track and slide assembly for sailboats

1993-04-26

1994-04-26

Basinger, Sherman

Ships

Sail or control means therefor

Mast travelers

114204, B63H 908

Patent

active

053057007

ABSTRACT:
A track and slide assembly for a sailboat having a mast and a boom, the track being attached to the mast and the slides which ride along the track being each coupled to the luff of a sail. Hence, when the sail is raised on the mast, the slides ride up the track, and when lowered, the slides then ride down the track. Formed in the track along its full length is a slot which extends below the outer face of the track and has a cruciform cross section defining a major channel and a minor channel that intersects the major channel at a point below the face of the track and is at right angles to the major channel. Each slide includes a cylindrical post that is slidable in the major channel of the track and a disc-shaped runner that intersects the post and is integral therewith, the runner being slidable in the minor channel whereby the slide is rotatable within the slot as well as being slidable therein and therefore does not bind to the track when a torque force is applied to the slide by the sail to which it is coupled.

REFERENCES:
patent: 3248749 (1966-05-01), Williams
patent: 3626429 (1971-12-01), Toder
patent: 4823720 (1989-04-01), Foster
patent: 4909170 (1990-03-01), Smart

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