Patent ID: 7441510

Claim:
A marine windshield frame for curved or straight windshield glass, mounted to a boat deck having a frontal, middle and rearward area and a cockpit substantially within said boat deck middle area, where said cockpit has a frontal and rearward area, comprising: an elongate base frame member rail mountable onto said boat deck substantially around the frontal area of said cockpit, where said elongate base frame member rail longitudinally extends around bottom of said windshield glass; an elongate top frame member rail longitudinally extending around top of said windshield glass, where said elongate top frame member rail is mounted substantially inward of said windshield glass and oriented toward said cockpit, where said elongate top frame member rail is mounted substantially flush with frontal area of said windshield glass, where said windshield glass is adhesively fastened to said top frame member rail, where said top frame member rail and said windshield glass include multiple sections, and further comprising a pair of vertically oriented corner posts, where said vertically oriented corner posts each includes a bottom end, an outboard side edge, a frontal surface, an inboard side edge, a rearward surface and a top end, where said corner post bottom end mates with said base frame member rail, said inboard side edge and said outboard side edge mate with said windshield glass sections; and where said corner post top end aligns to said top frame member rail.