Patent ID: 8535105

Claim:
An integrated jack plate, comprising, in combination: a pair of mirror-configured boat mounting plates having a generally L-shaped configuration with a boat transom mounting portion and a motor mounting portion with a length therebetween, the motor mounting portion of each of the boat mounting plates having a generally C-shaped configuration with a slide plate retaining groove therein, the slide plate retaining groove of each of the boat mounting plates having an upper portion and a lower portion; an inner lower boat mounting plate cross member having a centrally located middle portion, with the middle portion of the inner lower boat mounting plate cross member having an inner lower cross member recess therein, with the inner lower cross member recess having a pair of bolt holes there in, with each of the inner lower cross member recess bolt holes having an associated bolt, the inner lower boat mounting plate cross member being coupled to each of the boat mounting plates; an outer lower boat mounting plate cross member being coupled to each of the boat mounting plates; an inner upper boat mounting plate cross member being coupled to each of the boat mounting plates; an outer upper boat mounting plate cross member being coupled to each of the boat mounting plates; a motor mounting slide plate having a generally planar rectilinear configuration with a motor side and a boat side and a thickness therebetween, the thickness forming an upper peripheral edge and a lower peripheral edge and a pair of like configured side peripheral edges of the motor mounting plate; a hydraulic ram clevis having a being operatively coupled to the motor mounting slide plate; an integrated ram—reservoir—motor unit having an electric pump motor and an associated pump, the pump and pump motor being operatively coupled to a hydraulic fluid reservoir with the fluid reservoir being operatively coupled to a hydraulic ram housing and hydraulic ram, the hydraulic ram having a base, with the hydraulic ram base having a ram base pin hole therethrough, the integrated unit being coupling the lower inner cross member and the slide plate; and a hydraulic base mount having a generally C-shaped configuration with a cross portion having a generally rectilinear configuration with a pair of generally parallel extending portions with the cross portion being continuous with each of the pair of extending portions, the base mount having an inner surface and an outer surface and an upper surface and a lower surface and a pair of generally parallel side surfaces, the upper surface having a base mount recess therein, the base mount being coupled to the lower inner cross member.