Portable cleaning device for outboard motors

Claim 1

In combination with an outbard motor drive unit and boat, including: a flexible inelastic sack of substantial strength, having one open end; a plurality of equally spaced grommets placed on said sack, placed on a line substantially parallel to the open end of said sack, and positioned adjacent the open end of said sack; lacing means; a rigid shaped frame member completely closed upon itself and having a cicumference substantially equal to that of the open end of said sack, said frame member adapted to receive said open end of said sack, said sack being affixed thereto by said lacing means in cooperation with said grommets and said frame; a longitudinal handle pivotly fixed on said frame to rotate in a plane perpendicular to the water surface containing said boat, for positioning the combination of said frame and said sack about said outboard motor drive unit; a stop member including an upwardly extending rectangular bar fixed to said frame and positioned adjacent said pivotly fixed longitudinal handle positioning said handle between said stop member and said frame member, and further, such that said stop member lies in the pivotal plane of said handle, thereby inhibiting all movement of said handle past said stop member; and a support strap affixed to the combination of said frame and said sack for holding said combination about said outboard motor drive unit, thereby allowing the filling of the clean liquid into the interior of said sack and retaining said clean liquid in intimate contact with said outboard drive unit, thereby further preventing the outboard drive unit from being in contact with any foreign elements.