US2581676A - Boat mooring apparatus - Google Patents

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Jan. 8, 1952 w. "r. LOANEY BOAT MOORING APPARATUS o m A Q .T: Q A m m m OE 7 Filed Aug. 11, 1948 TOE A TTO/PNEKS- Patented Jan. 8, 1952 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE- BOAT MOORING APPARATUS William T. Loaney, Minneapolis, Minn.

Application August 11, 1948, Serial No. 43,726 3 Claims. (01. 114-230) This invention relates to boat mooring devices.

It is an object of my invention to provide a boat mooring device adapted to permit a boat to be securely moored out on the water by an operator standing on shore without necessitating the use of a separate boat to transport the operator to shore.

It. is another object to provide a boat mooring device adapted to permit a boat to freely swing with the direction of the Wind whereby the moored end of the boat will always be heading directly into the wind to permit the boat to ride extremely rough seas without shipping any water. My device also permits the boat to be transferred-out to its mooring on the water by an operator standing on shore. g

It is a further object to provide a boat mooring device easily adjustable for variations in water depth.

These and other objects and advantages of my invention will more fully appear from the following description made in connection with the accompanying; drawings wherein like reference characters refer to the same or similar parts throughout the several views and in which;

Fig. 1 is a side view partially in elevation and partially in section showing my mooring device in operation with a boat secured thereto;

Fig. 2 is a fragmentary horizontal sectional view of the mooring post shown in Fig. 1 and taken substantially along the line 22 of Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 is a fragmentary side elevational view of the adjustable connection of the mounting post under water sheave as viewed substantially from 3--3 of Fig. 1; and,

Fig. 4 is a fragmentary elevational view of the underwater shore sheave as viewed substantially from 44 of Fig. 1.

As illustrated in the accompanying drawings, I provide a boat mooring device having a hollow adjustable mooring post I which is adapted to be securely anchored in upstanding relation in the bottom of the lake as by being telescopically received in a tubular member 8 driven into said lake bottom. The hollow mooring post 1, has a plurality of vertically spaced adjustment apertures 1a formed through the side walls thereof. The tubular anchor member 8 has cooperating apertures 8a formed through the upper portion thereof and a pin 9 is adapted to be removably received by an aperture 1a selectively aligned with an aperture of tubular member 8. The top extremity of hollow mooring post I is flared outwardly to form a fair-leader lb for the mooring line of the boat. A plurality of windows ID are above.

formed in spaced vertically aligned relation in the side of said hollow post 1 and a pair of opposed spaced sheave attachment flanges ll, best shown in Fig. 3, are mounted adjacent each of said windows and adapted to selectively attach a rotatable sheave l2 to said post 1 below the water surface. A pin I3 is removably inserted through opposed apertures formed in flanges II and journals sheave I2. I I

A second underwater sheave I4 is mounted on a dock post I5 in substantial alignment with sheave l2. A third sheave I6 is mounted at the upper portion of dock post l5 and suitable means such as thecleat I! are provided for adjustably securing a mooring line at the desired position.

An endless cable or line [8- is trained about sheaves l4, l6 and over th top fair-leader lb at the top of hollow post 1 and down around sheave l2 disposed far enough below the water surface to permit a boat I!) to freely swing there- The boat [9 is securely attached to the line It as by a chain 20 and a hook 2| removably attaches said chain 20 to one end of the boat From a practical standpoint it makes little difference whether the boat is moored from the bow or the stern.

The following is the description of my improved boat mooring device. When an operator wants to moor his boat out on the water, he merely lands at the dock and attaches the chain 20 to one end of the boat as by the hook 2|. The line I8 is then pulled so that the lower run thereof travels inwardly and the upper run thereof travels outwardly drawing the boat, [9 out to the mooring post 1. The fair-leader will thus permit the chain 20 to freely swing around post 1 and the boat will thus be constantly headed into the wind to stably ride the waves. The line I8 is securely fixed in the desired position as by cleating the same on the cleat FL. The upper run of the line I8 is raised and permits the boat [9 to swing around thereunder without interfering therewith and the lower run is submerged, as has been previously stated, and permits the boat to swing freely thereabove.

If the water level rises during the season, the sheave l2 may be raised as well as the hollow post I. To raise the sheave l2, the pin I3 is merely removed from the flanges II and reinserted through the apertures in another selected pair of flanges disposed thereabove. The post 1 may be raised by removing pin 9, raising the post and reinserting the pin 9 through another aperture Ia aligned with aperture 8a of the tubular anchor member 8.

It will be seen that I have provided a novel and highly efficient .boat mooring device which is easily adjustable to various water levels and which will permit a boat securely moored thereto with complete freedom to swing about the mooring post I as a pivot so that said boat will always be headed directly into the wind to stably ride high waves. The device can be easily operated from a dock or from the shore and the boat may be drawing in or out from that position. These devices are extremely easy and inexpensive to manufacture and can be widely used by resort proprietors and other boat owners.

It Will, of course, be understood, that various changes may be made in the form. details, ar rangement and proportions of the parts without departing from the scope of my invention.

What I claim is:

l. A boat mooring device comprising a hollow upstanding post adapted to be anchored substantially rigidly with the upper extremity thereof disposed a substantial distance above the water surface, an annular fair-leader fixed around the upper extremity of said hollow member, said member having a cutout side portion adapted to be disposed below the water surface when said post is in anchored position, and flexible line-guiding means mounted at said out- 9 PO Q a f exible line trained over said fairleaderand extending downwardly within said ho low membe o a s r u sa su er d guiding means andoutwardly to form a lower of said line ubmerged below the water surface and an upper run disposed in spaced relatioj above the water surface when said post is i anch red o ion. and. means for attachin one end of a boat to the upper run of said line, said attachment means being adapted to be drawn downwardly into said hollow member to permit the boat attached thereto to swing freely about said member.

2. The structure set forth in claim 1 and said submergible line-guiding means being vertically adjustable on said hollow member to permit the depth thereof to be controllably varied.

3. The structure set forth in claim 2 and means for controllably varying the height of said post.

WILLIAM T. LOANE'Y.

REFERENCES CITED The, following references are of record in the file of this patent:

UNITED STATES PATENTS Number Name Date 632,238 Christensen Sept. 5, 1899 829,179 Stevens Aug. 21, 1906 943,433 MacDonald Dec. 14, 1909 1,150,646 Toelle Aug. 17, 1915 1,501,096 Cavicchi July 15, 1924 1,709,732 Mierkey Apr. 16. 1929 2,336,914 Anderson Dec. 14, 1943 2,455,203 West Nov. 30, 1948 FOREIGN PATENTS.

Number Country Date 668,786 Germany Dec. 9, 1938 OTHER REFERENCES Popular Mechanics Boat Book," June 27, 1940,

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