OUTBOARD MOTOR MOUNTING CLAMP

摘要

A clamp allows quick attachement of an outboard motor (no shown but secured to existing mounting bracket (20)), to boat transom (25). Plate (27) is bolted (30) to bracket (20). Next, a user slides yoke (22) with respect to plate (27) until noses (24) of arms (23) contact transom (25). Turning handle (45) by 90° then secures shaft (37), which passes through yoke (22), to plate (27) as threaded segments on shaft (37) engage with threated segments inside a bore in plate (27), Pivoting handle (45) down will then press cam faces (42) of cam (41) against yoke (22), clamping arms (23) to transom (25). In contrast, in another embodiment, simply pivoting a bifurcated handle of a clamp both takes up slack and directly engages transom (25).