Patent ID: 7464659
Filing Date: 2008-12-16
Classification: B63B

Abstract:
1. An apparatus for affixing a floating dock to a mooring pole comprised of: a cylindrical sleeve, a mooring bracket and a means for affixing the mooring bracket to a dock wherein the cylindrical sleeve is a tubular structure including a superior terminus, an inferior terminus, a length, an outer surface, an outside diameter and an inner surface surrounding a central bore demonstrating an inside diameter, wherein the inner surface of said sleeve is substantially smooth and the inside diameter is selected to enable the sleeve to be placed coaxially upon and closely adapt to a mooring pole of a given outside diameter while enabling said cylindrical sleeve to move up and down along said pole without binding thereto and wherein the outer surface of the sleeve includes a plurality of parallel circumferential rings, said rings defining parallel circumferential grooves therebetween, and the mooring bracket is comprised of a base plate and at least two “U” shaped arms which are affixed thereto, the base plate including at least two anchor bolt receiving holes therewithin especially configured and positioned for receiving the means of affixing the bracket to a dock, said plate further including at least two pairs of “U” shaped arm receiving holes, wherein the at least two pairs of “U” shaped arm receiving holes are so positioned and aligned within the base plate so that when the at least two “U” shaped arms are positioned and affixed to the base plate therethrough and thereby, said arms are held in a parallel relation, one to another, and distanced apart, one from another, so as to enable the at least two arms to align with, securely mate with selected circumferential grooves of the cylindrical sleeve; wherein when said apparatus is affixed to a floating dock, the close adaptation of said cylindrical sleeve to said pole in combination with the mating engagement of the at least two “U” shaped parallel and spaced apart arms, said apparatus provides stabile mooring of the floating dock and resistance against dock listing in reaction to disturbance of water in which the dock is positioned.