Marine mooring line vermin shield
First Claim
1. A marine mooring line vermin shield to prevent the passage of vermin crawling along a marine mooring line from land to a pleasure craft, comprising:
- (a) a disc having a disc axial axis perpendicular to a face of said disc, the disc axial axis being positioned in a central portion of said disc, said disc also includes an aperture through said disc in the disc axial axis being positioned such that said aperture uses the disc axial axis as a centerline, said aperture is sized and configured as a passage for the marine mooring line, said disc also includes a radial slot through said disc in the disc axial axis, said radial slot extending from said aperture to a periphery of said disc, said slot having a radial axis parallel to said slot;
(b) a closure sized and adapted to insert into said slot in a closure axis approximately parallel to the disc axial axis, said closure is in a closed state when inserted into said slot and is substantially flush with said disc face, said closure also sized and adapted to extract from said slot in the closure axis approximately parallel to the disc axial axis, said closure is in an open state when extracted from said slot to allow the marine mooring line to pass through said slot from said periphery to said aperture; and
(c) means for urging said closure from the open state to the closed state.
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Abstract
A marine mooring line vermin shield to prevent the passage of vermin crawling along a marine mooring line from land to a pleasure craft, including a disc with a centrally located aperture through the disc, and a slot extending from the aperture to a periphery of the disc. The vermin shield also includes a closure that is urged to insert into the disc slot in a closed state compressing the mooring line against the aperture to secure the vermin shield onto the mooring line. The closure may also be locked in the closed state. The closure can also be extracted from the disc slot in an open state to allow the mooring line to be removed from the aperture through the slot past the disc periphery.
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19 Claims
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1. A marine mooring line vermin shield to prevent the passage of vermin crawling along a marine mooring line from land to a pleasure craft, comprising:
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(a) a disc having a disc axial axis perpendicular to a face of said disc, the disc axial axis being positioned in a central portion of said disc, said disc also includes an aperture through said disc in the disc axial axis being positioned such that said aperture uses the disc axial axis as a centerline, said aperture is sized and configured as a passage for the marine mooring line, said disc also includes a radial slot through said disc in the disc axial axis, said radial slot extending from said aperture to a periphery of said disc, said slot having a radial axis parallel to said slot;
(b) a closure sized and adapted to insert into said slot in a closure axis approximately parallel to the disc axial axis, said closure is in a closed state when inserted into said slot and is substantially flush with said disc face, said closure also sized and adapted to extract from said slot in the closure axis approximately parallel to the disc axial axis, said closure is in an open state when extracted from said slot to allow the marine mooring line to pass through said slot from said periphery to said aperture; and
(c) means for urging said closure from the open state to the closed state. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15)
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16. A method of using a marine mooring line vermin shield to prevent the passage of vermin crawling along a marine mooring line from land to a pleasure craft, comprising the steps of:
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(a) providing a marine mooring line vermin shield that includes a disc, with an aperture, and a slot, also a closure, a lock, and a means for urging said closure to insert into said slot resulting in said closure being in a closed state;
(b) extracting said closure from said slot to place said closure in an open state by manually overcoming said means for urging;
(c) positioning said slot to allow the marine mooring line to pass through said slot and to rest against said aperture such that said disc is positioned so that a substantially flush disc face faces the land; and
(d) allowing said means for urging closure to insert said closure into said slot placing said closure in the closed state, wherein said closure compresses the marine mooring line against said aperture to secure said marine mooring line vermin shield against axial movement on the marine mooring line. - View Dependent Claims (17, 18, 19)
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