Patents Assigned to Slickbar, Inc.
  • Patent number: 4295756
    Abstract: A floating boom end connector, for joining the end of an elongated floating material containment boom to the juxtaposed end of a similar boom or to a towing or anchoring plate, incorporates a vertically elongated extrusion having a central web portion joined to the vertically arrayed flat boom fin end by means of an enlarged vertical central cavity within which the fin end is firmly anchored by being bent and re-curved around a central core, or is wedged between two flanking wedging bars secured to the fin end inside the cavity. The end connectors are provided with interfitting scraph jaws locking together two mating connectors or one connector and a mating towing plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 1979
    Date of Patent: October 20, 1981
    Assignee: Slickbar, Inc.
    Inventor: Russell M. Blair