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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 20, 2002
Filed:
Apr. 11, 2001
Applicant:
Inventor:
Peter W. Mansfield, Urbanna, VA (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B63C 3/06 ; B63C 7/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B63C 3/06 ; B63C 7/00 ;
Abstract
A boat lift apparatus connectable to a tubular piling to form a piling assembly embeddable into a bottom of a body of water. The apparatus includes a gearbox with a first worm gear arrangement driven by a motor output shaft and a second worm gear arrangement oriented orthogonally to the first worm gear arrangement within the gearbox. The second worm gear arrangement includes a support shaft which may drive a cable drum which is rotational driven from the second support shaft to withdraw and extend a length of cable therefrom to raise and lower a boat.