Patent ID: 6167828
Filing Date: 2001-01-02
Classification: B63B

Abstract:
A mooring assembly for securing a boat to a waterfront structure, said assembly comprising: a pair of pivot brackets mountable on a waterfront structure in spaced-apart relationship, each bracket having a pivot aperture formed therein, said apertures being positionable in substantially co-axial, spaced-apart relationship with the axis thereof being substantially parallel to the surface of the water when said brackets are mounted on said waterfront structure; a pair of mooring brackets mountable on a surface of a boat in spaced-apart relationship, each mooring bracket having a mooring aperture formed therein, said apertures being positionable in substantially parallel, spaced-apart relationship with the respective axes thereof substantially perpendicular to the surface of the water when said brackets are mounted on said surface of said boat; first and second elongate mooring arms each having a pivot end and a mooring end, each of said mooring arms having a pivot pin extending at a substantially right angle to the elongate axis of said mooring arm proximate said pivot end thereof, said pivot pins being engageable in respective ones of said pivot apertures to provide for pivotal movement of said pivot arms in planes substantially perpendicular to the surface of said water; each of said first and second mooring arms further having an elongate spacer rod, extending from said mooring arm in substantially coaxial relationship with said pivot pin and terminating in a free end remote from said mooring arm and from said pivot pin associated therewith; a substantially tubular spacing sleeve having a cylindrical central space open to the opposite ends of said sleeve and dimensioned to telescopically receive the said free ends of said spacer rods in co-axial alignment with each other, through the respective opposite ends of said sleeve; each of said first and second mooring arms still further having a mooring pin extending at a substantially right angle to the elongate axis of said mooring arm proximate said mooring end thereof, said mooring pins being insertable into said mooring aperture of a respective one of said mooring brackets from the side of said bracket remote from the surface of the water, such that as each mooring arm pivots about the axis of the associated pivot pin, said mooring pin moves as a tangent to a circle having the said pivot pin as its center, and the weight of said mooring arm at said mooring end thereof is supported on said mooring bracket to urge said mooring pin into said mooring aperture.