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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 11, 1998
Filed:
Oct. 17, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:
Glenn Henderson, St. Petersburg, FL (US);
Paul Amon, Moka Maraval Trinidad, WI (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B63H / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
114162 ;
Abstract
An inboard rudder 6 harbors within a bearing assembly 12 which passes vertically from a hull 10 of a boat 2 to a cockpit floor 8 of the boat 2 such that the inboard rudder 6 can be rotated around a vertical (z) axis 7 by a tiller 14 and raised or lowered by pulling or pushing on the top of rudder 6. Rudder 6 can be rotated about an axis (y) parallel to the width of the boat 2, in the fore and aft direction, by pulling or pushing on tiller 14 thereby altering a sweep angle 28 of the rudder (FIG. 3). Rudder 6 can be rotated about an axis (x) perpendicular to the length of the boat 2.