Patent ID: 7011559
Filing Date: 2006-03-14
Classification: B63H

Abstract:
1. A lower housing unit and propeller protection assembly adapted for a boat motor comprising: a planar clamp member adapted for securing to a boat motor upper housing unit; an adjustable length, linear connector member secured at one end to the clamp member, the linear connecting member adapted for positioning forward of a boat motor lower housing unit and propeller; a propeller and lower housing unit protection subassembly secured to an end of the linear connector member opposite the clamp member and adapted for securing to a lower housing unit skeg, the subassembly including an anchoring member having a skeg-accepting channel therein, the anchoring member including an aperture there through adapted for securing a skeg within the skeg-accepting channel, a pair of first planar fin members extending in a V-shape from the anchoring member adjacent the skeg-accepting channel, each first fin member adapted for extending beyond an outer circumference of the motor propeller, a pair of second planar fin members secured to the anchoring member adjacent the skeg-accepting channel, each second fin member positioned in register above a first fin member and secured by a bent end at a second fin member end opposite the anchoring member to a first fin member; a connector tab secured at a first end within the skeg-accepting channel and to the linear connector member at a connector tab second end; and a reinforcing member secured at a first end to the linear connector member and extending into the skeg-accepting channel of the anchoring member of the propeller and lower housing unit protection subassembly, the protection assembly transferring impact force on the lower housing unit protection subassembly and reinforcing member to the clamp member adapted for securing to the upper housing unit.