| 摘要 |
<p>A mounting assembly for an outboard motor which can be mounted on a boat to support an outboard motor in upright operative relation to the boat outboard thereof and to support the motor in substantially reclining stowed relation to the deck of the boat. The mounting has an index pan member secured to the deck and a base resting in and substantially filling the pan, the base being secured on the deck by a plurality of members extending through the base, index pan and deck cantable relative thereof and spring-biased to urge the base to seat flatwise in the pan but permitting tilting of the base relative to the pan and deck with one or more points of the base in contact within the pan. A main link is pivoted to the base, swingable inboard to motor-stowing position and into horizontal overboard extending relation in which it is also latched in fixed relation to the base. The motor is secured in a bracket pivoted to the end of the link remote from the pivotal connection thereof to the base and pivotally connected to at least one additional link which is also pivotally secured in relation to the base. The latter mentioned link is telescopable and spring-biased toward its telescoped condition and extendible in response to forces applied to submerged portions of the motor in operative position, tending to swing the lowermost submerged portions of the motor upwardly and toward the boat. The end of the latter link pivotally secured relative to the base being secured to a block reciprocable on the base and spring-biased toward a predetermined normal position relative to the base and releasably latched to the base in that position by plungers which retract to release the block when forces tending to shift the block fore or aft from said normal position exceed predetermined threshhold magnitude.</p> |
