Receptacle for essential accouterments on pleasure boat

• US 5,076,193 A
• Filed: 08/16/1990
• Issued: 12/31/1991
• Est. Priority Date: 05/10/1990
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Kenneth J. Keim
• Original Assignee: Kenneth J. Keim
• Inventors: Keim, Kenneth J.
• Primary Examiner(s): SWINEHART, EDWIN L
• Application Number:
  US07/568,512
• Time in Patent Office: 502 Days
• Field of Search: 114/343, 114/364, 211/192, 211/247, 211/249, 211/279, 211/292, 221/292, 221/192, 221/149, 221/249, 221/247, 221/279, 248/311.2, 248/314, 248/231.6, 220/23.8, 220/3.1
• US Class Current: 114/343
• CPC Class Codes: B63B 17/00 Vessels parts, details, or accessories, not otherwise provided for vehicle fittings for preventing or indicating unauthorised use or theft of vehicles in general B60R25/00; propeller guards, line cutters or other means for protecting propellers or rudders B63H5/165; protection of power legs of outboard propulsion units B63H20/36; locking devices for boats, surfboards or parts or accessories thereof E05B73/007

Abstract

This invention pertains to an elongated tubular receptacle adapted and arranged to contain one or more essential accouterments available on pleasure boats, such as signal flares and compressed gas cylinders, and the receptacle includes mechanism to secure the receptacle suitably to a support member on a boat deck or wall, such as a vertical stanchion and includes mechanism adapted to readily remove the accouterments from the receptacle.

Claims

1. A receptacle adapted to contain therein one or more elongated cylindrical accouterments, including signal flares and cylinders of compressed gaseous fuel in vertical coaxial position and said receptacle being attachable firmly to a fixed substantially vertical support member on a pleasure boat and comprising in combination,

a. a cylindrical receptacle having an interior diameter adequate to received in relatively close manner accouterments including signal flares and cylinders of fuel, used in grills on pleasure boats,

b. a bottom member fixed integrally to one end of said receptacle,

c. a removable cap disposable over the opposite end of said receptacle,

d. a plurality of brackets respectively connected to the exterior of said receptacle in vertically-spaced relationship thereon and selectively attachable to said substantially vertical support member on said boat, and

e. means operable to facilitate axial removal of said flares and cylinders from said receptacle when said cap is removed therefrom.

2. The receptacle according to claim 1 in which said brackets are bipartite and include threaded means to connect the parts thereof around said vertical support member on the deck of a boat and said bottom member is provided with a drain opening to permit discharge of leakage from said receptacle to the exterior of the boat.

3. The receptacle according to claim 2 wherein one part of said brackets is separable from the other part and said one part is provided with surfaces within a common plane and said surfaces are provided with screw-receiving holes for attachment of the receptacle to said vertical support member on said boat by means of screws.

4. The receptacle according to claim 1 in which said means operable to facilitate removal of said accouterments from said receptacle comprise a flexible strip secured at one end to said receptacle near the end to which said cap is engaged and said strip extending downwardly into said receptacle and under the bottom of the lowermost accouterment and then extending upwardly to said cap and being connected thereto, whereby removal of said cap and pulling upon said strip said accouterments will be raised axially from within said receptacle.

5. The receptacle according to claim 4 in which said flexible strip comprises a flexible plastic tape.

6. The receptacle according to claim 4 further including a rigid disc having a diameter substantially similar to that of the accouterments contained in said receptacle and disposed beneath the lowermost accouterment in said receptacle, said disc being slidably associated with said strip in a manner to prevent lateral skewing or displacement of said strip from beneath said lowermost accouterment incident to said accouterments being moved upwardly from said receptacle.

7. The receptacle according to claim 6 in which said disc includes a plurality of parallel slots respectively adjacent opposite edges of said disc and through which said strip is threaded slidably in a manner to prevent lateral displacement of said disc relative to said lowermost accouterment as aforesaid.

8. A receptacle adapted to contain therein one or more elongated cylindrical accouterments including signal flares and cylinders of compressed gaseous fuel in vertical co-axial position and said receptacle being attachable firmly to a vertical member on a pleasure boat and comprising in combination,

a. a cylindrical receptacle having an interior diameter and length adequate to receive in close relationship a plurality of elongated accouterments,

b. a bottom fixed integrally to the lower end of said receptacle in watertight manner,

c. a removable closure cap telescopically and removably fitting over the upper end of said receptacle in watertight manner,

d. a plurality of brackets respectively connected to the exterior of said receptacle in vertically aligned and spaced positions and selectively attachable to a fixed substantially vertical member on such boat,

e. said brackets each comprising a pair of separable and interconnectable parts respectively having a stud on one part interfittingly receivable within a socket on the other part, and

f. a readily removable pin for each bracket closely and slidable extendable through axially aligned holes on a common transverse axis in said parts when assembled together, whereby said pins in said brackets may be quickly pulled from said brackets, thereby to permit said receptacle quickly to be removed from said fixed substantially vertical member on said boat.

9. The receptacle according to claim 8 in which said one of said bracket parts which is firmly attachable to said substantially vertical member on such boat comprises two separable members each having one-half of a circular hole adapted to receive an elongated member and further including connecting means operable to maintain said two separable member firmly clamped together in frictional engagement with said elongated member.

10. The receptacle according to claim 8 in which said pins are disposed on a normally vertical axis in use and are of such length that when inserted operatively through said separable parts of each bracket they extend substantially entirely through said bracket parts and the normally upper end of said pins having manually-engageable means operable to be pulled upwardly to permit quick separation of said parts to release said receptacle from said substantially vertical member on said boat, whereby gravity functions to maintain said pins within said connected parts of said brackets.

11. The receptacle according to claim 10 in which said pins fit within the aligned holes in said parts which receive it with limited friction and said manually-engageable means comprising a ring extending through a hole in the upper end of each pin, and a member extending between and connected to said rings to permit automatic withdrawal of the lower pin from its bracket when the ring of the pin in the upper bracket is removed from the upper bracket.

12. The receptacle according to claim 8 further including a circular seal within said closure cap engageable sealingly with the upper end of said cylindrical receptacle when said cap is in closed position thereon, and an interengaging bayonet slot and lug means on said cap and receptacle operable for quick manipulation to permit removal of said cap from said receptacle and sealable reattachment of said cap thereto.