Title: Expansible boat trailer

Abstract: The invention is a trailer designed for use with catamarans and perhaps other multi-hull vessels which are intended to be trailed on the highway but have a beam when sailing much broader than the permissible widths of vehicles allowed on the highway, so that the hulls are separate and can be collapsed together for trailing, and expanded to the proper width and assembled with frame support members when ready to sail. The trailer is designed to carry this type of vessel and has a pair of elongated cradles mounted on the ends of outrigger beams which are swung outwardly to put the hulls at the proper spacing for attachment for sailing, with the outrigger beams being swung inwardly by a central traveling beam to which they are pivoted to draw the cradles together side by side in transport-ready position on the trailer.

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Inventors: Waits, Gregory D. (San Diego, CA, US)

Application Number: 032530
Filing Date: 1979-04-24
Publication_date: 1981-01-06
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Primary Class(es): 280/414.1 280/656
Other Classes:
US Patent Ref:

2639162	May, 1953	Schon	280/42.
2886339	May, 1959	Buttles	280/42.

Other Refs: 6686001271780

May, 1964	IT
Apr, 1972	GB

Primary Examiner: Pekar, John A.
Assistant Examiner:
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