Applied sun shade to a launched boat

• US 6,968,800 B1
• Filed: 09/02/2004
• Issued: 11/29/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 09/02/2004
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: John J. Becht
• Original Assignee: John J. Becht
• Inventors: Becht, John J.
• Primary Examiner(s): Olson, Lars A.
• Application Number:
  US10/931,633
• Time in Patent Office: 453 Days
• Field of Search: 114/242, 114/344, 114/361, 135/88.01, 280/414.1, 280/414.2
• US Class Current: 114/361
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: B63B 17/02 Awnings , including rigid weather protection structures, e.g. sunroofs; Tarpaulins; Accessories for awnings or tarpaulins
• CPC Class Codes: B63B 2017/0054 Rests or supports for movable ship-borne equipment
• 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

In a boat having a rear transom of a type (1) transported on land on attached wheels in depending relation from brackets on the transom and (2) launched to provide a floating condition in a lake and (3) removing the wheels from the floating boat preparatory to making accessible the transom brackets and, using the transom brackets, to apply to a sun shade to the boat.

Claims

1. Improvements in a method of preparing a boat for boating service, said boat being of a type having a bow and a stern and characterized by a nominal weight contributing to the transport of said boat from a site of storage to a site of use adjacent a body of water into which said boat provides said boating service, said method comprising the steps of

A. attaching to said stern in spaced-apart relation a pair of cylindrical connecting members bounding a circular rod-receiving opening and each having opposite pin-receiving openings in horizontal alignment with each other,

B. constructing for transport with said boat a pair of wheel means each comprised of a rod of a selected vertical size when used in a vertical orientation having a horizontally oriented axle attached to the bottom end of said rod and having journalled for rotation on said axle a wheel, said axle being projected through a hub of said wheel and pinned using an inboard pin means to hold said wheel in place and having a pin-receiving through bore adjacent an upper end of said rod,

C. transporting in a condition supported from below said boat on a vehicle from said site of storage to said site of use,

D. moving said boat stern in an overhanging relation to said vehicle to establish beneath said stern-attached cylindrical connecting members a working clearance exceeding that of said vertical size of said rod of said wheel means,

E. moving said rods in said working clearance so as to cause an interengagement of said rod upper ends within said cylindrical connecting members and an alignment of said pin-receiving respective connecting members openings and upper end rod through bore,

F. attaching said wheel means to said overhanging boat stern using outboard pin means seated in said pin-receiving respective connecting members openings and upper end rod through bore,

G. transporting manually said boat with said attached wheel means into said adjacent body of water to a level exceeding said vertical size of said rod wheel means,

H. detaching said wheel means from said boat by withdrawing said pin mean and urging said rods in descending movement clear of said cylindrical connecting members,

I. attaching to said vacated cylindrical connecting members a sun shade means having:

(1) a triangular shaped cover of fabric construction material having at opposite ends of an expanse thereof a rear edge coinciding with a base of said triangular shape and a front point coinciding with an apex of said triangular shape;

(2) a male connector for each cylindrical connecting member extending from said cover rear edge; and

(3) operative conditions for said male connectors disposed in projected relation into a cooperating said cylindrical connecting member surface-bounding compartment;

J. using a connector attached at one end in extending relation from said triangular shape front point;

K. having an operative condition of said front point connector attached to a bow of said boat; and

L. flexuring cover-supporting means in supporting relation beneath said fabric cover;

whereby said transom cylindrical connecting members have a dual utility in launching said boat and in contributing to the shaded comfort of the boat occupants during use thereof.