Carriage for watercraft

• US 4,712,636 A
• Filed: 05/29/1986
• Issued: 12/15/1987
• Est. Priority Date: 05/29/1985
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha (Kawasaki Heavy Industries Limited)
• Original Assignee: Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha (Kawasaki Heavy Industries Limited)
• Inventors: Ishimatsu, Tsutomu
• Primary Examiner(s): Love, John J.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Diederiks, Jr., Everett G.
• Application Number:
  US06/868,069
• Time in Patent Office: 565 Days
• Field of Search: 180/198, 180/6.2, 180/6.48, 180/11, 180/12, 180/16, 180/53.2, 114/11, 114/270, 114/344, 440/12
• US Class Current: 180/198
• CPC Class Codes: B60P 3/10 for carrying boats for carrying sailboards B60R9/08, B63B32/80; equipment forming part of or attachable to vessels facilitating transport over land, e.g. wheel units, towing units, B63C13/00
• CPC Class Codes: B63C 13/00 Equipment forming part of or attachable to vessels facilitating transport over land amphibious craft, land vehicles convertible for use on water B60F; land vehicles for carrying boats B60P; hand carts for transporting boats B62B; harnesses attachable to vessels for personal carrying A45F

Abstract

A carriage adapted for an inboard-type motorboat provided with a power take-off device for a prime mover. The carriage comprises a dolly loading the watercraft, plural wheels inclusive of driving wheels rotatably supported by shafts on the dolly, an input shaft engaging with aforesaid power take-out device, and a power transmission fixed to the dolly to transmit torque of the input shaft to aforesaid driving wheels, and is driven by the torque transmitted from the power take-off device of the watercraft loaded on aforesaid dolly.

Claims

1. A carriage for transporting a watercraft on land, comprising:

a dolly carrying a watercraft having an inboard prime mover and a power take-off means from that inboard prime mover;

said dolly having plural wheels including driving wheels, rotatably supported by shafts on said dolly;

an input shaft connected to said power take-off means to transmit the prime mover'"'"'s power in the form of torque;

power transmission means fixed on said dolly to transmit torque from said input shaft to said driving wheels,

said torque propelling the carriage by being transmitted via said power transmission means from said power take-off means of the watercraft loaded on said dolly to said driving wheels; and

means for steering said carriage when said carriage is being propelled, said steering means including;

manual lever means movably mounted on the watercraft;

a steering means mounted on the carriage; and

an interlocking means between said manual lever means and said steering means on the carriage for transmitting movement of said watercraft mounted lever means to said steering means to guide the carriage, said manual lever means includes a steering handle bar on the watercraft and levers located on both sides of said steering handle bar on the watercraft and wherein said steering means on the carriage includes clutches on said carriage for controlling the driving wheels, and said interlocking means includes means for transmitting the movement of said manual lever means to said clutches respectively for engaging/disengaging said clutches.

2. A carriage as claimed in claim 1, wherein said watercraft includes a steering nozzle coupled to said steering means and said steering means on the carriage includes steerable front wheels, said interlocking means including means for interlocking said watercraft steering nozzle and said front wheels.