Ships – Travelers
Patent
1999-07-13
2000-12-12
Morano, S. Joseph
Ships
Travelers
114112, B63H 910
Patent
active
061583731
ABSTRACT:
A traveler comprises a car slideably held on a track, and is useful for applications including trimming a sailboat mast or sail. The car has two side portions each with a race with an open portion. Ball bearings are contained in each race that are rotatably engaged between the race open portions and the grooves on the sidewalls of the track. The car further has retaining means for holding the ball bearings in place along the open portion of the race when the car is removed from the track. The retaining means are movably received by the track groove, and otherwise allow for free rotational engagement of the groove by the bearings.
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Pp. 126-133 from Harken U.S.A. 1998 catalog, showing traveler products; published circa Fall 1997 by Harken U.S.A., Pewaukee, WI.
"Loading Balls" instructions sheet believed to be available circa 1997 with purchase of traveler from Harken U.S.A. Co., Pewaukee, WI.
Lange Kenneth E.
Malcolm Jonathan D.
Harken, Inc.
Morano S. Joseph
Wright Andrew D.
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