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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 collaps

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.

대표청구항 ▼

A trailer for carrying a vessel having two movable hulls which move from an expanded spaced mode for sailing to a collapsed mode for transport, said trailer comprising: (a) a rigid vessel support frame mounted on wheels; (b) a plurality of loadbeam guide pairs longitudinally spaced along and mounted

A trailer for carrying a vessel having two movable hulls which move from an expanded spaced mode for sailing to a collapsed mode for transport, said trailer comprising: (a) a rigid vessel support frame mounted on wheels; (b) a plurality of loadbeam guide pairs longitudinally spaced along and mounted to said frame with the individual guides of each pair being laterally spaced on opposite sides of the longitudinal and centerline of said frame; (c) a longitudinally extended traveling beam disposed along the centerline of said frame and being mounted to said frame for longitudinal movement; (d) a plurality of outrigger load beam pairs each comprising a left and right beam and being slidably engaged in said guides and pivoted by their inboard ends at longitudinally spaced positions to said traveling beam; (e) left and right hull cradle assemblies pivoted respectively to the outer ends of said left and right outrigger beams, whereby a pair of vessel hulls carried in said cradle assemblies can be selectively moved between said expanded mode and said collapsed mode by longitudinal movement of said traveling beam.