US2837050A

US2837050A - Anchor hoist and holder

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Publication number: US2837050A
Application number: US486668A
Authority: US
Inventors: Frank Morris
Original assignee: Individual
Current assignee: Individual
Priority date: 1955-02-07
Filing date: 1955-02-07
Publication date: 1958-06-03
Anticipated expiration: 1975-06-03

Description

June 3, 1958 M, R K 2,837,050

ANCHOR HOIST AND HOLDER Filed Feb. 7, 1955 m I' M INVENTORQ MORRIS FRANK ATTORNEY United States Patent ANCHOR HOIST AND HOLDER Morris Frank, Cedar Springs, Mich.

Application February 7, 1955, Serial No. 486,668

Claims. (Cl. 114-210) This invention relates to anchor hoists and more par-' ticularly to a bracket designed for raising and lowering a sea anchor and for storing the sea anchor in horizontal rather than vertical position. i

The conventional bracket or hoist for sea anchors stores the anchor in vertical position. This arrangement results in the weight of the anchor being supported solely by the anchor cable. Over a period of time the weight of the anchor tends to withdraw more and more of the anchor cable, thus lowering the anchor. Further, unless the anchor is well secured, it will tend to rock with the motion of the boat, resulting in damage to the boats finish.

In the conventional, small water craft of the type for which this invention is designed, the only other solution to this problem has been to lift the anchor into the boat. Normally, the anchor brings into the boat quantities of mud and Water which must subsequently be cleaned out. This latter is a tedious and unpleasant task. I

This invention solves this problem by providing a bracket designed to support the anchor in horizontal rather than vertical position while in storage. Thus, the anchor cable or rope is entirely relieved of the weight of the anchor and there is no tendency for it to pay-out under the urging of the anchor. The bracket provides a suitable storage space extending beyond the edge of the boat, permitting the mud and water brought up by the anchor to be discharged outside the boat.

This invention provides such a bracket which is compact and particularly adapted to small water craft.

These and other objects and purposes of this invention will be readily understood by those acquainted with the design and use of marine accessories upon reading the following specification and the accompanying drawings.

In the drawings:

Fig. 1 is a front elevation view of my anchor bracket.

Fig. 2 is a side elevation view of my anchor bracket showing a fragment of the boat hull and the anchor in stored position in phantom.

Fig. 3 is a plan view of my anchor bracket.

Referring specifically to the drawings, the numeral 10 indicates the bow of a boat. To the bow 10 there has been installed one of my anchor brackets 11. The anchor bracket has a base plate 12 of generally greater width at its forward end than at its rearward end. The forward end of the base plate 12 is bifurcated to provide a slot 13 for reception of the pulley 14. Above the rearward portion of the slot 14 and extending upwardly from the upper surface of the base plate 12 is a forward guide loop 15. The center of the guide loop 15 is coincident with the center line of the pulley 14 to facilitate the passage of the upper end of the anchor therethrough. The forward guide loop 15 may be cast as an integral part of the base plate 12 or it may be fabricated separately and secured by suitable means such as welding or screws.

The opening 16 within the guide loop is of suiiicient size to provide free passage for the upper end of the anchor as it is pulled up into the bracket and navigates the 90 2,837,050- Patented June 3, 1958 turn necessary to change it from its normal, vertical position to its horizontal, storage position.

Adjacent the rearward end of the base plate 12 is a rearward guide loop 17 of substantially smaller size than the forward guide loop 15. The rearward guide loop has a central opening 18 aligned with the center line of the pulley 14 and the opening 16 of the forward guide loop 15. The rearward guide loop provides a guide for the cable or chain 19 by which the anchor is attached. The

guide loops

15 and 17 serve as fair-leads for the cab1e'19 as the anchor enters and leaves the bracket and its attitude is changed from vertical to horizontal. Like the forward guide loop 15, the rearward guide 17 may either becast integral with the base plate 12 or it may be'fabricated separately and secured to the base plate 12 by suitable means such as welding or screws.

Depending below the base plate 12 are a pair of cars 25, one adjacent to and on each side of the slot 13. The ears 25 are apertured near their lower end for reception of the pulley shaft 26. The pulley shaft 26 is designed to be stationary and the pulley 14 to be freely rotatable thereon.

The outer ends of the pulley shaft 26 extend outwardly and provide the means for securing the upper ends of the spaced guide arms 27. The spaced guide arms are somewhat 0 shaped and as they extend downwardly from the shaft 26 they project forwardly to provide a guide for the anchor 28. The shape of these arms is such that as the anchor approaches the bracket the lower portion or cup 29 of the anchor will strike the lower and rearwardly curved portion of the guide arms. Thereafter, as the anchor is drawn further upwardly, the shape of the guide arms 27 causes the anchor to s'wing forwardly, thus causing it to tilt about the pulley 14. This eases its movement about the pulley permitting the anchor to be rotated about its longitudinal axis to bring it to rest in a horizontal position within the anchor bracket.

A pair of the guide arms 27 are provided, one being positioned on each side of the pulley. By this arrangement, conflict between the guide arms and the attachment eye 30 of the anchor is eliminated. On the lower ends the guide arms are joined by a cross piece 31. The cross piece 31, at its center, is attached to the bow of the boat by a suitable fastener such as the screw 32. The guide arms are further braced by an intermediate cross piece 33 so shaped that it will not interfere with the movement of the anchor into and out of the bracket.

To assure proper tracking of the cable or chain 19 over the pulley 14, the pulley is provided with a shallow, central channel 37 which has only suflicient depth to assure centering of the cable.

In order to hold the anchor 28 firmly, once it has been properly seated on the bracket, a pair of stops or snubbers 38 extend from the forward end of the bracket. The stops 38 are spaced apart sufiiciently and are of suflicient length that when the anchor is pulled into fully retracted position they contact the inside of the anchors cup. This prevents it from swaying to either side.

It will be recognized that the anchor, when held in horizontal position as shown in Fig. 2, may be firmly held against accidental lowering with only a slight tension on the cable 19. Thus, there will be no tendency for the cable to loosen and release the anchor. Further, the anchor is positively held where it will not roll or rock from side to side due to the motion of the boat. Further, it is held where it cannot possibly contact the side of the boat and cause damage to the boats finish.

The shape of the lower guide arms 27 is such that the anchor is guided into and out of its storage position with a minimum of pull required on the cable. Thus,

the bracket may be usedwith only a fraction of the energy t would be required if it were necessary to forcibly lift the anchor and place it in the horizontal position.

It will be noted in Fig. 2 that a substantial portion of the bracket including the pulley14; projects jbeyond-the' Thus, the lower portion of the anchor,

bow of the boat. that being the portion which normally is coated with mud,

is never brought into the boat but remains suspended over- 7 the amount the user wishes to invest in the bracket and the particular circumstances under which it is desired to use the bracket. If the boat is tobe used on fresh water, inland rivers and lakes, aluminum may be satisfactory. Where, however, the bracket is to be used on boats navigating on salt water, it generally will be necessary to fabricate the bracket from brass.

It will be seen that the bracket is simple in construction and may be readily attached to boats of many different conventional designs without injury to the boat and without modification of the boats structure. Furthermore, the brackets position is at the extreme bow of the boat where it will not occupy any otherwise useful area of the boat.

While I have described a preferred embodiment of my invention, it will be recognized that various modifications of this invention may be made without departing from the principles thereof. Each of these modifications is to be considered as included in the hereinafter appended claims unless these claims, by their language, expressly state otherwise.

I claim:

1. A bracket for storing a sea anchor supported by a flexible element comprising: a normally horizontal base plate; a guide pulley rotatably mounted adjacent one end of said plate; a fairlead on said plate for said flexible element; a convex guide member below said plate adapted to engage said anchor and initiate its travel over and about said pulley.

2. A bracket -for storing a sea anchor supported by a flexible element comprising: an elongated normally horizontal base plate; a guide pulley rotatably mounted adjacent one end of said plate; a fairlead on said plate for said flexible element; a pair of vertically arranged, spaced convex guide members below said plate, said guide members being situated one on each side of said pulley and adapted to engage said anchor and initiate its travel over and about said pulley.

3. A bracket for storing a sea anchor supported by a flexible element comprising: an elongated normally horizontal base plate; a guide pulley rotatably mounted adjacent one end of said plate; a pair of fairleads on said plate, said fairleads being spaced longitudinally of said plate and adapted to guide said flexible element; a convex guide member below saidplate adapted to engage said anchor and initiate its travel over and about said pulley.

4. A bracket for storing a sea anchor supported by a flexible element, said bracket comprising: an elongated normally horizontal base plate bifurcated at one end; means fixedly secured to said plate for rotatably mounting a pulley below said plate; a pulley rotatably mounted below-said plate with 'a portion thereof received into the bifurcated end of said plate; the top of said pulley being substantially in the plane of the upper surface of said plate; a fairlead on said plate for said flexible element; a convex guide member below said plate adapted to engage said anchor and initiate its travel over and about said pulley.

5. A bracket for storing a sea anchor having an enlarged base and an elongated neck secured to a flexible element for supporting said anchor comprising: a normally horizontal base plate; a guide pulley rotatably mounted adjacent one end of said plate, said guide pulley being adapted to receive said flexible element and said elongated neck; a fair lead on said plate for said flexible element References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS 1,640,672 Schauman Aug. 30, 1927 2,554,804 Amundsen May 29, 1951 2,632,418 Gronquist Mar. 24, 1953 2,718,865 Kurzmann Sept. 27, 1955