Ships – Boats – boat component – or attachment – Protective cover or shield
Patent
1990-03-05
1991-07-16
Basinger, Sherman
Ships
Boats, boat component, or attachment
Protective cover or shield
135 99, 135905, 150166, B63B 1700
Patent
active
050315668
ABSTRACT:
A support post system for a flexible cover that is attached around its periphery to ground, e.g., a cover for a boat. The system includes, in preferred form, a collar with throughbore that is attached to the cover. A support post is inserted in telescoped relation through the collar's bore from above the cover, one end of the support post being supported on ground and the other end of the support post extending above the cover. In one preferred embodiment a flexible tension member, e.g., a rope, is fixed at one end to the collar, and is trained over a guide head fixed to the post above the cover. In use, the rope is manually pulled downwardly by a person from above the cover so as to lift the collar up the post. This simultaneously lifts the cover to a desired location above ground at which it is taut so that rainwater does not puddle on it. After the collar and cover are lifted to the preferred elevated location, the rope is tied off on the collar so as to maintain tautness of the cover.
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