Patent ID: 6165030
Filing Date: 2000-12-26
Classification: B63H,F02B

Abstract:
A pedal driven propulsion device comprising:a stand having a base, a housing, a first post disposed between said base and fixedly attached to said housing and a second post slideably extending within said first post for adjusting said base;a drive assembly, supported by said stand, having a drive rod disposed within a tubular drive shaft and said drive rod driven by a chain connected between a first sprocket and a second sprocket and by a pedal and a crank assembly connected to said first sprocket and rotatably cooperating with said chain;a propeller assembly having an upper portion and a lower portion, a tubular propeller shaft having a propeller drive rod therein and said tubular propeller shaft disposed between said upper portion and between said lower portion and said propeller drive rod coupled to and drivably engaged with said drive rod of said drive assembly at said upper portion and to a propeller rotatively disposed at said lower portion for providing propulsion to a watercraft when said drive assembly is activated wherein said propeller assembly is disposed outboard and oriented adjacent to the gunwales of the watercraft in a spaced relationship thereto;a steering assembly having a handle and a link pivotably connected to said handle and to a bracket on said propeller assembly for cooperating with said propeller assembly and with said drive assembly; anda mounting assembly, for adjustably and removably mounting between the gunwales of the watercraft, having a first rail, a second rail parallel to and in a spaced relationship to said first rail and a first clamp and a second clamp each slidably attached to both said first rail and to said second rail and said first clamp also slidably attached to said tubular drive shaft with said housing disposed therebetween said first clamp and said second clamp and said first rail and said second rail extending longitudinally through said housing and said tubular drive shaft disposed parallel to and midway between said first rail and said second rail and said tubular drive shaft extending from said housing to said propeller assembly and said first clamp and said second clamp each having a knob for slideably moving and for securing said first clamp and said second clamp in a fixed position and a vice portion for attachment to the gunwales of the watercraft.