Vessel mooring device

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1999-03-04

2000-05-16

Swinehart, Ed

Ships

Mooring device

Line type

1142301, B63B 2100

Patent

active

060621583

ABSTRACT:
This invention is a simple and yet efficient device for mooring vessels that floats up and down with the tide on vertical piling which maintains both ends of a mooring line at approximately the same height from the water. This is accomplished by providing a stainless steel cage with upper and lower rings with interior diameters larger than the diameter of the piling. These rings are connected by a plurality of risers. A bail or other securing means is used to secure the end of a mooring line. A bend is provided in each of the risers near the bottom ring so that the risers project outwardly. A floating means having an interior diameter smaller than the diameter of a plane passing through the bends in the risers is slipped over the lower ring and wedges on the risers so that the mooring device can rise and fall with the tide.

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patent: 5467727 (1995-11-01), Godvin et al.
patent: 5603280 (1997-02-01), Shackelford, Jr.

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