Patent ID: 7921792
Filing Date: 2011-04-12
Classification: B63B,E02B

Abstract:
1. An apparatus for affixing a floating dock to an inboard mooring pile comprised of: a cylindrical sleeve, a mooring bracket and a means for affixing the mooring bracket to a floating dock adjacent to a pile aperture formed within a top surface of the floating dock the cylindrical sleeve is a tubular structure having a superior terminus, an inferior terminus, a length, an outer surface, an outside diameter, an inside diameter and an inner surface surrounding a central bore, wherein the inner surface of said sleeve has a substantially smooth contour and the inside diameter is selected to enable the sleeve to be placed coaxially upon and closely adapt to a mooring pile of a given outside diameter while enabling said cylindrical sleeve to move up and down along said pile without binding thereto and wherein the outer surface of the sleeve is configured to include a contour demonstrating a plurality of parallel circumferential rings, said rings, in turn, defining parallel circumferential grooves therebetween, and the mooring bracket is comprised of: wherein, when the base plate is affixed to a floating dock adjacent to a pile aperture through which a mooring pile extends, and the semi-circular portion of the at least one “U” shaped arm is positioned within so as to engage a selected groove of a cylindrical sleeve coaxially placed upon the mooring pile, the two termini of the “U” shaped arm can be aligned with, engage and affixed to the base plate at the at least one pair of “U” shaped arm receiving holes whereby the “U” shaped arm is held in a position parallel to the top surface of the floating dock and firmly engages the selected groove of the cylindrical sleeve.