Floating dock having shock-absorbing coupling
CA 1304631 C · Owner: Dye, Wayne K. Jr. · Inventors: Fransen, Sig T.; Dye, Wayne K. Jr.
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A multi-element floating dock has shockabsorbing flexible tieing elements which are installed as a unit without any manual adjustment being required to create a pretension in the shock-absorbing components. Elastomeric pads positioned in aligned cavities formed in the edges of the dock sections receive the ends of the flexible tieing elements. Stops located on the ends of the tieing elements engage the pads so that adjacent dock sections cannot be separated from one another without compressing the pads and thereby creating a compressibly yieldable restraint against the separation of the dock sections and preventing their being separated from one another past a predetermined limit. An …
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- Granted July 7, 1992. A Canadian patent filed before October 1, 1989 lasted 17 years from grant, so its term ended July 7, 2009.
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