Combination dock cleat and chock

• US 5,477,800 A
• Filed: 12/27/1994
• Issued: 12/26/1995
• Est. Priority Date: 12/27/1994
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Alan P. Lawrence
• Original Assignee: Alan P. Lawrence
• Inventors: Lawrence, Alan P.
• Primary Examiner(s): SWINEHART, EDWIN L
• Application Number:
  US08/363,895
• Time in Patent Office: 364 Days
• Field of Search: 114/218, 114/381, 114/230, 24/115 R, 24/129 R, D 8/356
• US Class Current: 114/218
• CPC Class Codes: B63B 21/045 T-shaped cleats

Abstract

A device to secure a boat to a dock with a rope in a conventional manner, using two horizontally protruding horns (14) extending in opposite directions and two smooth curved surfaces (12) below each of the horns to guide the rope. Another protruding horn with a smooth guiding surface below it faces each of the other two horns and guiding surfaces, which allows a person to guide the rope from either direction without removing the rope from the device and moving it to the other end as is required with a conventional cleat. Two sloping surfaces (13) on the ends of the device are parallel to the direction a person would normally be walking on a dock and are designed to deflect a moving foot away from the protruding horns of the device, reducing the liklihood of injury caused by striking the device.

Claims

1. A device for securing a rope to a dock one end of said rope being attachable to a boat, comprising:

a. four horizontally aligned protruding horns around which said rope may be wrapped,

b. a smooth curved surface below each said protruding horn which can be used to guide said rope and aligned so that said rope can be guided from either direction without removing said rope from said device,

c. smooth, sloping surface positioned at each end of the device, and shaped so said sloping surfaces will deflect a moving object upwardly and over said device so as to avoid injury.