Mount for a twin-fluke type anchor

Claim 1

A mount adapted to be mounted on a stanchion extending upwardly from the deck of a vessel or the like for an anchor of the twin-fluke type which anchor includes an elongated stock integrally connected to said flukes and an elongated shank pivotally connected at one end to said stock between said flukes, and a crown including a pair of substantially flat crown plates integrally connected to said stock between said flukes, said plates being supported in a position on said stock wherein each of said plates is spaced a short distance outwardly on opposite sides of the plane of said flukes with each crown plate sloping inwardly toward the plane of the flukes and being supported to permit bottom to flow freely between the flukes and the underside of the respective crown plates when said anchor is resting on the bottom of a body of water, said mount comprising: a clamp having a plurality of mating flanges forming a generally elongated cavity therebetween for receiving the stanchion of said vessel within said cavity, said flanges including stanchion-clamping means for selectively opening said flanges to release said stanchion therefrom and clamp said stanchion within said cavity; crown plate support means carried by said clamp for receiving one of said crown plates therein and retaining said plate at an angle such that the plane of said flukes, integrally connected thereto, when said crown plate is disposed in said crown plate support means and said clamp is secured to said stanchios, is generally parallel to a plane passing through the longitudinal axis of said stanchios, said crown plate support including bracket means coupled to said clamp, the configuration of said bracket means imparting the angularity to the plate when said plate is mounted on said support means and sleeve means carried by said bracket means for retaining said plate therein, said sleeve means including a pair of generally U-shaped sleeve members secured to said bracket means along one side forming the U thereof, said sleeve members extending in a direction generally parallel to the length of said plate with said plate being retained therein and from movement away from said mount by the other sides forming the U''s thereof with a bridging portion interconnecting one side forming the U with the remaining side forming the U of each of said sleeve members, and at least one generally U-shaped stop member extending in a direction generally normal to the length of said plate when said plate is disposed in said sleeve means mounted on said bracket means below said sleeve members for preventing downward movement of said plate when said plate is disposed in said sleeve means; said bracket means including means associated therewith for both varying the distance between the bridging portions of the sides forming the U''s of said sleeve members and for varying the position of said stop member thereon to thereby vary the distance between the bridging portion of the sides forming the U of said stop member and the uppermost portion of said bracket means, all of said means for varying the distances between the bridging portions of said U-shaped sleeve members and said stop member are apertures in said bracket means, said apertures being aligned with like apertures in said stop member and said sleeve means.