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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 08, 2009
Filed:
Dec. 10, 2007
Applicant:
Matthew W. Jaeger, Stillwater, OK (US);
Inventor:
Matthew W. Jaeger, Stillwater, OK (US);
Assignee:
Brunswick Corporation, Lake Forest, IL (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F01P 3/20 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A cooling system for a marine propulsion device provides a transom opening that is sufficiently low with respect to other components of the marine propulsion device to allow automatic draining of all cooling water from the system when the marine vessel is removed from the body of water in which it had been operating. The engine cooling passages and other conduits and passages of the cooling system are all located at positions above the transom opening. The system provides automatic draining for a marine cooling system that is an open system and which contains no closed cooling portions.