Patent ID: 7153059
Filing Date: 2006-12-26
Classification: B60P,B63C

Abstract:
1. A boat ramp comprising: (i) a ladder-style frame having elongated lateral side rails held in spaced apart parallel condition by cross support beams, said spaced apart condition being greater than about one and one-half feet, said rails having a length greater than 10 feet and terminating at one end as a water end and terminating at the other end as a shore end, (ii) at least six hull roller assemblies mounted on said side rails in laterally paired relationship across from each other and in longitudinally spaced relationship along said rails such that at least three said hull roller assemblies are distributed over the water end half of the length of each said rail, each said assembly having a hull roller axle carrying at each end thereof a hull roller, said hull roller assemblies being so mounted on said rails that their said axles are in pivotable elevated transverse orientation above said rails so as to permit said hull rollers to pivot and rotate according to the contour of the hull of a boat pulled into resting condition thereupon, and (iii) a shore end winch assembly comprising a winch assembly beam mounted at its inner end on a said cross support beam between said rails at a location inwardly spaced from said shore end, said winch assembly beam being sloped upward toward said shore end at a low angle of no more than about 45 degrees above the elongated direction of said rails, and a winch supported at an elevated condition proximate to the elevated outer end of said winch assembly beam.