Canoe bracket

• US 3,918,666 A
• Filed: 02/10/1975
• Issued: 11/11/1975
• Est. Priority Date: 02/10/1975
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Nathaniel Florian
• Original Assignee: Nathaniel Florian
• Inventors: Florian, Nathaniel
• Primary Examiner(s): Frazier, Roy D.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Staab, Lawrence J.
• Application Number:
  US05/548,871
• Time in Patent Office: 274 Days
• Field of Search: 9/1R 115/17,18 248/4,26R,363
• US Class Current: 248/641
• CPC Class Codes: B63H 20/007 Trolling propulsion units trolling plates for slowing down B63H25/50; dynamo-electric machines of trolling units H02K
• CPC Class Codes: F02B 61/045 for outboard marine engines

Abstract

A bracket for mounting outboard motors on canoes which comprises an adjustable elongated V-shaped frame and resilient cup-shaped members for engaging sides and top deck of a canoe, each of said members being individually adjustable and a horizontal tail support for a motor to mount same in operative position on the longitudinal axis of the canoe.

Claims

1. An outboard motor mounting for pointed end craft comprising, a tubular main frame roughly triangular in shape said frame including a pair of, elongated generally L-shaped arms, means for adjusting said arms toward and away from each other, a cross member mounted on said arms, a resilient cup-shaped member depending from said cross member, a plurality of resilient cup-shaped members mounted on said elongated arms in opposing locations and having their concave sides opening to the interior of said roughly triangular main frame, a motor support fixed to said L-shaped arms at the apex of said roughly triangular main frame whereby all the cup-shaped members engage a surface of said craft for holding the frame and motor thereto.

2. The combination according to claim 1 wherein the means for adjusting said elongated L-shaped arms toward and away from each other is located opposite the apex of said roughly triangular main frame.

3. The combination according to claim 1 including means for individually adjusting all of said resilient cup-shaped members with respect to their arms and cross member.