Water vessel propelled by motorized land vehicle

Claim 1

A water vessel adapted to be propelled by a motorized land traversing vehicle, said water vessel comprising: a pair of pontoons; means connecting said pontoons in a spaced, parallel relationship; a propeller rotatably carried by said vessel; a rudder carried by said vessel for steering the same; means mounting said land traversing vehicle on said connecting means, said mounting means comprising a power transmission means operatively attaching said propeller to the power generating means of said land traversing vehicle such that said vehicle functions to rotate said propeller when said vehicle power generating means is operative, said mounting means further comprising means coupling said rudder to the steering mechanism of said land traversing vehicle such that said rudder is responsive to control the direction of said water vessel when said vehicle steering mechanism is operative; support wheels pivotally carried by said water vessel and movable between a lowered position wherein said wheels extend below the lower surface of said pontoons for engagement with the ground to enable said vessel to be transported on land, and a raised position whereby said wheels are raised above the water level when said vessel is in the water; a shaft carried by said water vessel for rotational movement about an axis transversely disposed with respect to the foreaft axis of said water vessel, the outer ends of said shaft having L-shaped configurations and extending beyond the outer contour of said pontoons, each support wheel being mounted on the end of one of the legs of each L-shaped shaft end; support bracket means carried by said water vessel adjacent said shaft outer ends, said support bracket means comprising Lshaped brackets having first legs affixed to the pontoons and second legs extending outwardly therefrom and substantially perpendicular thereto, said second legs having a first substantially vertical face and a second inclined face obliquely disposed with respect to the first face; said shaft being rotatable to said lowered position wherein the other legs of each L-shaped ends are disposed in a vertical position and in abutment with said bracket means first face; fastener means being rotatable 180* around said other legs carried by said other legs and releasably attachable to said bracket means for locking said support wheels in said lowered position, said shaft being rotatable to said raised position wherein said shaft is rotated through an oblique angle and said other legs are positioned in a supporting abutment with said bracket means second face and inclined with respect to said lowered position, said fastener means carried by said other legs being releasably attachable to sais bracket means for locking said support wheels in said raised position; and said land traversing vehicle being a motorcycle having a frame supported by a pair of longitudinally spaced and rotatably mounted wheels, the rear wheel of which is driven by the power generating means of said motorcycle, the forward wheel being operable for rotational movement about a vertical axis to steer said motorcycle; said power transmission means comprising a pair of spaced rollers rotatably mounted on said connecting means along spaced parallel axes transversely disposed to the fore-aft axis of said water vessel, sAid rollers being rotatable in a common plane, the rear driven wheel of said motorcycle supportably engaging said rollers and rotatable in said common plane to rotate said rollers as said motorcycle rear wheel is driven; and linkage means operatively connecting at least one of said rollers to said propeller to rotate same.