Live fish container

Claim 1

A LIVE FISH CONTAINER INCLUDING A VERTICAL AXIS CYLINDRICAL SACK WITH AN OPEN TOP AND A RIM PROTECTED SCREEN BOTTOM, A SACK SUPPORTING BAND ATTACHED WITHIN THE EDGE OF THE TOP AND TERMINATING AT A SIDE WITH A PAIR OF HORIZONTALLY SPACED RADIALLY EXTENDING END PORTIONS, THE ENDS OF THE LATTER BEING FORMED IN HORIZONTALLY SPACED VERTICAL PLANES INTO HORIZONTALLY ALIGNED SUBSTANTIALLY CLOSED RINGS, CLAMPING MEANS INCLUDING AN INVERTED U-PLATE HAVING DOWNWARDLY DEPENDING FLANGES AND AN INTERMEDIATE HORIZONTAL PORTION, SCREW MEANS ASSOCIATED WITH THE DEPENDING FLANGES WHEREBY A GENERAL SUPPORT MEMBER SUCH AS THE GUNWALE OF A BOAT MAY BE CLAMPED THEREBETWEEN, A HORIZONTAL PIVOT MEMBER, A HORIZONTAL MOUNTING PLATE, A VERTICAL AXIS SWIVEL MEMBER PROJECTING UPWARD FROM SAID INTERMEDIATE HORIZONTAL PORTION AND HORIZONTALLY SWIVELING SAID MOUNTING PLATE ON SAID INTERMEDIATE PORTION, THE CLEARANCES AT THE SWIVEL MEMBER BEING SUCH AS TO FRICTIONALLY HOLD THE PLATES IN A DESIRED ANGULAR RELATIONSHIP, SAID MOUNTING PLATE SUPPORTING AT AN ARCUATE END THEREOF WHICH IS HORIZONTALLY SPACED FROM THE SWIVEL MEMBER, THE MIDPORTION ONLY OF SAID HORIZONTAL PIVOT MEMBER, THE LATTER MEMBER BEING EMBRACED NEAR EACH OF ITS ENDS BY ONE OF SAID SUBSTANTIALLY CLOSED RINGS, AND MEANS AT THE ENDS OF THE HORIZONTAL PIVOT MEMBER TO HOLD THE RINGS OF THE SACK SUPPORTING BAND FRICTIONALLY TIGHT AGAINST THE ARCUATE SUPPORT OF THE HORIZONTAL PIVOT MEMBER, WHEREBY A VARIATION IN HORIZONTAL CLEARANCE BETWEEN THE VERTICAL ADJACENT PORTIONS OF A GENERAL SUPPORT, AS THE GUNWALE OF A BOAT, AND THE CLOSEST PORTION OF THE CYLINDRICAL SACK AT OUTBOARD POSITION, IS OBTAINABLE BY POSITIONING THE ARCUATE SUPPORT END OF THE MOUNTING PLATE IN ITS MOST INBOARD POSITION OR ITS MOST OUTBOARD POSITION, AND THE CLAMPING MEANS, THE MOUNTING PLATE, AND THEIR ASSOCIATED STRUCTURES WILL ALLOW THE SACK TO SWIVEL FOR A COMPLETE FULL CIRCLE ABOUT A VERTICAL AXIS, AS WELL AS TO PIVOT HORIZONTALLY AT LEAST A HALF CIRCLE, REGARDLESS OF WHETHER THE ARCUATE SUPPORT END OF THE MOUNTING PLATE IS ARRANGED IN POSITION FOR A MINIMUM OR MAXIMUM CLEARANCE BETWEEN THE GENERAL SUPPORT AND THE SACK.