Abstract:
A portable mooring dock for a boat for allowing a user to secure and safely anchor one&#39;s boat along a shoreline. The portable mooring dock for a boat includes boat connectors being fastenable to a boat; and also includes a boat mooring assembly being attached to the boat connectors, and including elongate support members and elongate cross member, and also including ground securement members for securing the elongate support members to a ground; and further includes a floatation assembly being connected to the boat mooring assembly to facilitate floatation of the boat mooring assembly.

Description:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 
   1. Field of the Invention 
   The present invention relates to mooring docks for boats and more particularly pertains to a new portable mooring dock for a boat for allowing a user to secure and safely anchor one&#39;s boat along a shoreline. 
   2. Description of the Prior Art 
   The use of mooring docks for boats is known in the prior art. More specifically, mooring docks for boats heretofore devised and utilized are known to consist basically of familiar, expected and obvious structural configurations, notwithstanding the myriad of designs encompassed by the crowded prior art which have been developed for the fulfillment of countless objectives and requirements. 
   Known prior art includes U.S. Pat. Nos. 6,067,926; 4,913,078; 5,165,823; 4,142,477; 5,067,428; and Des. 212,654. 
   While these devices fulfill their respective, particular objectives and requirements, the aforementioned patents do not disclose a new portable mooring dock for a boat. The prior art includes portable boat docks having frames and other supports for securing the portable docks to the ground. 
   SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION 
   The general purpose of the present invention, which will be described subsequently in greater detail, is to provide a new portable mooring dock for a boat which has many of the advantages of the mooring docks for boats mentioned heretofore and many novel features that result in a new portable mooring dock for a boat which is not anticipated, rendered obvious, suggested, or even implied by any of the prior art mooring docks for boats, either alone or in any combination thereof. The present invention includes boat connectors being fastenable to a boat; and also includes a boat mooring assembly being attached to the boat connectors, and including elongate support members and elongate cross member, and also including ground securement members for securing the elongate support members to a ground; and further includes a floatation assembly being connected to the boat mooring assembly to facilitate floatation of the boat mooring assembly. None of the prior art includes the combination of the elements of the present invention. 
   There has thus been outlined, rather broadly, the more important features of the portable mooring dock for a boat in order that the detailed description thereof that follows may be better understood, and in order that the present contribution to the art may be better appreciated. There are additional features of the invention that will be described hereinafter and which will form the subject matter of the claims appended hereto. 
   In this respect, before explaining at least one embodiment of the invention in detail, it is to be understood that the invention is not limited in its application to the details of construction and to the arrangements of the components set forth in the following description or illustrated in the drawings. The invention is capable of other embodiments and of being practiced and carried out in various ways. Also, it is to be understood that the phraseology and terminology employed herein are for the purpose of description and should not be regarded as limiting. 
   It is an object of the present invention to provide a new portable mooring dock for a boat which has many of the advantages of the mooring docks for boats mentioned heretofore and many novel features that result in a new portable mooring dock for a boat which is not anticipated, rendered obvious, suggested, or even implied by any of the prior art mooring docks for boats, either alone or in any combination thereof. 
   Still another object of the present invention is to provide a new portable mooring dock for a boat for allowing a user to secure and safely anchor one&#39;s boat along a shoreline. 
   Still yet another object of the present invention is to provide new portable mooring dock for a boat that is easy and convenient to set up and use. 
   Even still another object of the present invention is to provide a new portable mooring dock for a boat that prevents the possibility of sharp objects impacting the bottom of the boat along shorelines with the boat being safely anchored in the water off the shoreline. 
   These together with other objects of the invention, along with the various features of novelty which characterize the invention, are pointed out with particularity in the claims annexed to and forming a part of this disclosure. For a better understanding of the invention, its operating advantages and the specific objects attained by its uses, reference should be made to the accompanying drawings and descriptive matter in which there are illustrated preferred embodiments of the invention. 

   
     BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS 
     The invention will be better understood and objects other than those set forth above will become apparent when consideration is given to the following detailed description thereof. Such description makes reference to the annexed drawings wherein: 
       FIG. 1  is a perspective view of a new portable mooring dock for a boat according to the present invention. 
       FIG. 2  is a detailed partial perspective view of the present invention. 
       FIG. 3  is another detailed partial perspective view of the resent invention. 
       FIG. 4  is a perspective view of the present invention being aken apart and arranged for compact storing. 
   

   DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENT 
   With reference now to the drawings, and in particular to  FIGS. 1 through 4  thereof, a new portable mooring dock for a boat embodying the principles and concepts of the present invention and generally designated by the reference numeral  10  will be described. 
   As best illustrated in  FIGS. 1 through 4 , the portable mooring dock for a boat  10  generally comprises boat connectors  11  being removably fastenable to a boat  18 . Each of the boat connectors  11  includes a shaft  12 , and also includes a U-shaped bracket member  13  being securely and conventionally attached and welded to the shaft  12  and having grommet members  14  being conventionally attached and welded to ends of the U-shaped bracket member  13 , and further includes a tether  15  and a fastener  16  being conventionally attached to the tether  15  and being removably received through the grommet members  14  to fasten the U-shaped bracket member  13  to a respective eyelet  17  being conventionally attached to the boat  18 . 
   A boat mooring assembly is conventionally attached to the boat connectors  11 , and includes elongate support members  19 , 22 , 25 , 28  and elongate cross members  31 , 34 , and also includes ground securement members  52  for securing the elongate support members to a ground  54 . The elongate support members  19 , 22 , 25 , 28  are conventionally connected to the boat connectors  11  and include two sets of the elongate support members with the elongate support members  19 , 22 , 25 , 28  of each of the two sets of the elongate support members being hingedly connected end to end. Each of the two sets of the elongate support members includes a first elongate tubular member  19  having first and second ends  20 , 21  with the shaft  12  of a respective boat connector  11  being securely and fastenably received in the first end  20  of the first elongate tubular member  19 , and also includes a second elongate tubular member  22  being hingedly attached to the first elongate tubular member  19 , and further includes a third elongate tubular member  25  being hingedly attached to the second elongate tubular member  22 , and also includes a ground securement tubular member  28  being hingedly attached to the third elongate tubular member  25 . The elongate cross members  31 , 34  includes two sets of the elongate cross members interconnecting the two sets of the elongate support members. Each of the two sets of the elongate cross members includes first and second tubular cross members  31 , 34  being hingedly attached to one another at first ends  32 , 35  thereof and being fastened at second ends  33 , 36  thereof to the elongate support members  19 , 22 , 25 , 28 , and having holes  37  being disposed therethrough near the second ends  33 , 36  thereof. The boat mooring assembly further includes cross member connectors  38  being conventionally attached to and extending outwardly from the elongate support members  19 , 22 , 25 , 28  and having bores  39  extending therethrough. The cross member connectors  38  are fastenably and removably received in the second ends  33 , 36  of the first and second tubular cross members  31 , 34 . The boat mooring assembly also includes grommets  53  being securely and conventionally attached to second ends  30  of the ground securement tubular members  28 . The ground securement members  52  include stakes being removably received in the grommets  53  and being removably penetrated in the ground  54 . The boat mooring assembly further includes first linkage members  40  being pivotally and conventionally attached to the second ends  21  of the first tubular members  19  and to first ends  23  of the second tubular members  22 , and also includes second linkage members  41  being pivotally and conventionally attached to the first ends  32 , 35  of the first and second tubular cross members  31 , 34 . The first and second tubular members  19 , 22  are foldable upon one another for compact storing thereof. The first and second tubular cross members  31 , 34  are removably disposed upon one another also for compact storing thereof. The boat mooring assembly also includes first brackets  42  being hingedly and conventionally attached to second ends  24  of the second elongate tubular members  22  and to first ends  26  of the third elongate tubular members  25 , and also includes second brackets  43  being hingedly and conventionally attached to second ends  27  of the third elongate tubular members  25  and to first ends  29  of the ground securement tubular members  28 . The first and second elongate tubular member  19 , 22  are foldable upon the third elongate tubular member  25 , and the third elongate tubular member is foldable upon the ground securement tubular member  28  for easy storing thereof. The boat mooring assembly further includes flexible lines  44  being conventionally attached to the elongate cross members  31 , 34 , and also includes flexible pin fastening members  45  being conventionally attached to ends of the flexible lines  44 , and further includes pins  46  being conventionally attached to the flexible pin fastening members  45  and being removably received through holes  37  of the first and second tubular cross members  31 , 34  and of the first and second bracket members  42 , 43  and of the third elongate and ground securement tubular members  25 , 28  and through the bores  39  of the cross member connectors  38 . 
   A floatation assembly is conventionally connected to the boat mooring assembly to facilitate floatation of the boat mooring assembly. The floatation assembly includes cords  47  being conventionally attached to the elongate support members  19 , 22 , 25 , 28 , and also includes floatation members  48  being conventionally attached to the cords  47 . Each of the floatation members  48  includes a balloon-shaped member  49  and also includes a tongue member  50  being conventionally attached to the balloon-shaped member  49  and having an eyelet  51  with a respective cord  47  being conventionally connected to the eyelet  51 . 
   In use, the user would straighten out the elongate support members  19 , 22 , 25 , 28 , and would interconnect the two sets of elongate support members with the elongate cross members  31 , 34 . The user would then attach the boat connectors  11  to the eyelets  17  which are securely fastened to the boat  18  with the grommets  53  being secured to the ground  54  with the stakes  52 . The boat  18  would be positioned just off shore without the bottom of the boat  18  impacting any of the ground  54  of the shoreline. When finished, the user would disconnect the boat connectors  11  from the eyelets  17  and would fold up the boat mooring assembly in a compact storable form. 
   As to a further discussion of the manner of usage and operation of the present invention, the same should be apparent from the above description. Accordingly, no further discussion relating to the manner of usage and operation will be provided. 
   With respect to the above description then, it is to be realized that the optimum dimensional relationships for the parts of the invention, to include variations in size, materials, shape, form, function and manner of operation, assembly and use, are deemed readily apparent and obvious to one skilled in the art, and all equivalent relationships to those illustrated in the drawings and described in the specification are intended to be encompassed by the present invention. 
   Therefore, the foregoing is considered as illustrative only of the principles of the portable mooring dock for a boat. Further, since numerous modifications and changes will readily occur to those skilled in the art, it is not desired to limit the invention to the exact construction and operation shown and described, and accordingly, all suitable modifications and equivalents may be resorted to, falling within the scope of the invention.