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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 02, 2019
Filed:
May. 13, 2015
Balex Marine Development Limited, Hong Kong, HK;
Lex Noel Bacon, Omokoroa, NZ;
Paul Antony Symes, Tauranga, NZ;
Jonathan Martin Jones, Tauranga, NZ;
Blythe Guy Rees-Jones, Papamoa, NZ;
Darren Leybourne, Auckland, NZ;
Andrew James Percival, Auckland, NZ;
Yuri Nikolaevich Ivanov, Auckland, NZ;
Balex Marine Development Limited, Hong Kong, HK;
Abstract
In one aspect the invention provides a boat support frame loading and unloading apparatus configured to draw a boat on to and off a boat support frame. This boat support frame has a loading end and a terminal end opposite to the loading end. The apparatus provided includes at least one roller assembly mounted to the support frame adjacent to the loading end of the support frame, said at least one roller assembly incorporating at least one roller element. The apparatus also includes at least one drive mechanism configured to rotate one or more roller elements to draw a boat onto and off the support frame through the loading end of the support frame. The roller assembly also includes a hull contact surface formed by a flexible belt which has a circumference greater than the circumference of the said at least one roller element incorporated into the roller assembly.