Portable dock

Claim 1

A PORTABLE DOCK-TYPE STRUCTURE WHICH MAY BE BE SUPPORTED AS FORM THE BOTTOM OF A NATURAL BODY OF WATER, COMPRISING A PLURALITY OF ELOGNATE, WOODEN STRINGERS HAVING OPPOSITE INPERFORATE END PORTIONS, SAID STRINGERS BEING ARRANGED IN PAIRS, THE STRINGERS IN EACH OF SAID PAIRS BEING DISPOSED OPOSITE EACH OTHER AND AND A PARALLEL AND SAPACED RELATION, EACH OF SAID STRINGERS BEING DISPOSED IN ENDWISE ADJOINING RELATION WITH ANOTHER OF SAID STRINGERS, A PLURALITY OF END-TO-END DECK SECTIONS REMOVABLY SUPPORTED ON SAID STRINGERS AND HAVING LONGITUDINALLY EXTENDING FRAME ELEMENTS DEPENDING THEREFROM AND LYING FLUSH AGAINST THE SIDES OF SAID STRINGERS, A PLURALITY OF SUPPORTING STANDARDS EACH DISPOSED AT A RESPECTIVE END OF A PAIR OF SAID STRINGER AND HAVING A PAIR OF UPRIGHT SUPPORT POSTS ADJACNET OPPOSITE STRINGERS, EACH OF SAID STANDARD ALSO INCLUDING A PAIR OF RIGID STRINGER-SUPPORTING BRACKETS EACH ON A RESPECTIVE POST, EACH OF SAID STANDARDS HAVING RIGID MEANS MAINTAINING SAID BRACKETS IN PREDETERMINED RELATION WITH EACH OTHER, EACH OF SAID BRACKETS HAVING AN ELOGNATED RIGID STRINGER-SUPPORTING SHELF EXTENDING ALONG AND CARRYING ADJOINING STRINGERS WITH THE TERMINAL ENDS OF THE STRINGERS DISPOSED INTERMEDIATE THE ENDS OF THE SHELF, EACH OF SAID BRACKETS HAVING RELEASABLE CLAMPING MEANS GRIPPING THE IMPERFORATE END PORTION OF EACH STRINGER AT TWO LOCATIONS SPACED FROM EACH OTHER LONGITUDINALLY ALONG THE SHELF AND THEREBY FIX THE END PORTIONS OF THE STRINGERS AGAINST ENDWISE TILTING RELATIVE TO THE BRACKETS AND THEREBY MINIMIZE DOWNWARD DEFLECTION OF THE STRAINGERS INTERMEDIATE THE ENDS THEREOF.