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Rail mate

  • US 5,007,612 A
  • Filed: 04/23/1990
  • Issued: 04/16/1991
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/23/1990
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A rail mate for a boat handrail of either cylindrical or rectangular shape comprising a main body providing means for receiving and vertically stabilizing a cold beverage container and keeping said beverage container cool and for receiving and supporting food and other articles, a rail engaging clamp of inverted channel shaped integrally attached to said main body and comprising a base wall having opposite longitudinal side edges of the base wall a rail engaging lip projecting from the free end of the second side wall, parallel to the base part way towards the first side wall so that the side walls, base and lip define a rail receiving enclosure with a rail admitting mouth formed between an adjacent free end of the lip and the first side wall, the beverage receiving and stabilizing means and the food receiving and supporting means being formed on an extension of the first side wall remote from the base wall, first and second clamp members releasably fastened to respective side walls so as to extend within the enclosure, means to advance one clamp member relatively towards the other clamp member into cooperative clamping engagement with cylindrical boat rail of substantially smaller cross sectional size than the enclosure, whereby, after removal of the clamp members, a boat rail of rectangular shape inserted through the mouth can be received in the enclosure in a force-fit to extend along the channel engaged by all four sides thereof.

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