Abstract: In a new method for the placement of sand, gravel or equivalent particulate material onto a sand trap, tee, putting green or other selected area of a golf course for construction or maintenance purposes, sand or other particulate material is pneumatically transported through a flexible conduit from an off-load site remote to the selected area to a nozzle positioned at the selected area and is sprayed from the nozzle onto the selected area. The new method eliminates the labor intensive prior method of wheelbarrowing sand or gravel from the off-load site to the selected site and the need then to rake or hoe the sand or gravel to properly spread it about the selected area.

Abstract: A ladder device for a boat has a mount unit and a separate step unit that may be moved between a use position with a step thereof immersed in the water in which the boat floats and a storage position where the step is located out of the water. The step in the use position extends aft of the platform and permits a person to climb out of the water and onto the platform without the step making any appreciable movement relative to the boat during such climb. The mount unit has a pair of U-shaped members formed of a section of tubing with first and second ends and a transverse flange is fixed to each first end by which the members may be attached to the upper surface of the platform. The step unit has two parallel S-shaped tubular side sections, each including a long central portion from which upper and lower end portions extend integrally and substantially normally. A step is fixed at its ends to the lower end portions holding the side sections spaced apart from each other.

Abstract: Platform and ladder combinations for the transom of a boat have a platform unit and a step unit that may be moved between a use position with a step thereof immersed in the water in which the boat floats and a storage position where the step is located above the platform out of the water, which step in the use position extends aft of the platform unit and permits a person to climb out of the water and onto the platform without the step making any appreciable movement during such climb. The platform unit has a pair of tubular members with an inboard portion, a U-shaped outboard portion, a central portion and planking attached to the central portion of each the tubular members holding them spaced apart. The step unit is a tubular member defined by a middle section, two parallel, spaced apart end sections and planking fixed to short legs of the end sections forming a step.

Abstract: A ladder device for the transom of a boat has a platform unit and a step unit that may be moved between a use position with a step thereof immersed in the water in which the boat floats and a storage position where the step is located out of the water. The step in the use position extends aft of the platform unit and permits a person to climb out of the water and onto the platform unit without the step making any appreciable movement relative to the platform unit during such climb. The platform unit includes a pair of ring members that each depends from a respective longitudinal section of the unit. The step unit includes a U-shaped tubular member defined by two parallel side sections joined integrally to a transverse section. The side sections each have a long leg and a short leg with one end thereof unattached and a stop member is carried on such unattached end.

Abstract: Ladders for the transoms of boats having stern platforms thereon include a fixed upper unit and a pivoted lower unit. The upper unit has a pair of tubular brackets fastened to the stern platform with portions that depend below the platform. The lower unit has a tubular member formed with a central section and two integral, parallel and identical end sections. The end sections are spaced apart approximately the distance between the upper unit brackets and planking extends between them forming one or more steps. The end sections of the lower unit are hinged to the upper unit brackets so the lower unit may be moved between a raised position where the step is positioned above a stern platform and a lowered position where the step or steps are positioned below and astern of the platform. In one embodiment, the upper unit has posts that serve to engage legs of the end sections when the lower unit is in the lowered position to limit its downward movement.

Abstract: A boarding ladder which may be mounted on a topsides surface of a boat to be swingable between a raised position where all parts of the ladder are above the waterline of the boat and a lowered position where at least one step of the ladder extends below the waterline is formed of a step unit and a mount unit. The step unit has a pair of spaced apart tubular siderails carrying flat tread steps so as to permit the angle of their flat treads to be varied relative to the siderails. A tubular cross member extends across the top ends of the siderails. The mount unit has a pair of spaced apart, tubular sections rotatably carried on the cross member of the ladder unit and which extend normally thereof. Mounting members into which such tubular sections fit permit the ladders to be mounted on the topsides surface of a boat while supporting the ladder in a proper operating posture.

Abstract: Ladders for use with inflatable boats or other watercraft include a mounting bracket and a movable boarding step unit having a plurality of steps fixed to an elongated support bar. The mounting bracket is fixed to the transom or other vertical portion of the watercraft and the support bar is contoured so that when its upper end is positioned in the bracket, the steps depend below the watercraft and are firmly held away from it by a portion of the bar bearing against a portion of the watercraft adjacent the mounting bracket.

Abstract: Improved boat boarding ladders, that may be mounted on a boat in a boarding position wherein they extend into the water and mounted in different stowage position wherein they are clear of the water, are formed of a step section, a support section and mounting units, all of which are separable from each other. The step section has a pair of tubular siderails and a plurality of steps fixed between them. The support section includes a pair of U-shaped tubular members each braced by a bar that is fixed at its ends across the arcuate portion of such member. One free end of each U-shaped member is enlarged so the upper end of a siderail may be fitted therein and locked with a through pin so the support section extends normal to the step section. The mounting units each include a tubular portion into which ends of the U-shaped support section members may be fitted to hold the ladder in the boarding position, while ends of the step section siderails may be so fitted to mount the ladder in the stowage position.

Abstract: A step device for mounting on the transom platform of a boat that may be moved between a use position wherein a step thereof is immersed in the water in which the boat floats and a storage position wherein the step is located above the platform out of the water formed of a step unit, a pair of bracket units and a pair of pin members. The step unit when in the use position permits a person to climb out of the water and onto the platform without the step making any appreciable movement relative to the platform during such climb because of its unique construction which includes a pair of support members each having an L-shaped portion that includes a leg section and a step section joined normally to the leg section via an arcuate section, a lateral portion that extends integrally and normally from the top end of the L-shaped portion, and an abutment portion that extends integrally from such lateral portion in the direction of the step section spaced apart from and parallel to the leg section.

Abstract: Improved ladders for attachment to the transoms of boats comprise a platform section that includes horizontal planking and depending tubular frame members and a ladder step section pivoted on the tubular frame members below the planking for movement between a retracted position wherein the step is raised above the planking inboard of the rear end of the platform and an extended position wherein the step is lowered below and aft of the planking. The step is structured so as to limit the extent it will lower below the planking. The new ladder design enables the platform to be free of any elements, such as brackets, etc., and for the step to be aft of the boat's propeller, rudder, etc. When the step is in the extended position to eliminate possible snagging of gear worn by the ladder user or other interference to the user of the free use of the full area of the platform or of the ladder.