Self flushing live bait container for power boats

Claim 1

An attachment for the transom of a boat for retaining live bait in normal water environment comprising means forming a container of predetermined dimensions with a door means for access through the top thereof, a plurality of spaced water circulation holes around said container a predetermined distance from the bottom thereof for the self circulation of water through said container when in its lower position and said boat is substantially immobile and normally floating in said water, said container slidably secured to the outer surface of the transom of said boat by a rail and follower means for movement of the container from a lowered position with a portion thereof submerged in water below the bottom surface of said boat to an upper position a predetermined distance above the bottom surface of said boat, a straight tube journalled in a bearing means secured to said transom for rotary and substantially vertical axial movement and said bearing means and said tube means having cooperative camming means for simultaneously raising and lowering said tube a predetermined distance when the latter is rotated in opposite directions respectively, the lower end of said tube terminating in a right angled elbow forming an open scoop, a flexible conduit connected at one end to the upper end of said tube and the opposite end thereof connected through the top of said container, a manual handle for the rotation of said tube to lower said nozzle from an inactive position above said bottom surface in said boat to a lower position below said bottom surface and facing forward of said boat whereby water will be forced upward through said tube by said scoop to flow through said conduit into said container continuously when the boat is motivated for supplying said container with a circulation of environmental water.