Sheer line deck-edge fender for vessels

A vertically elongated resilient Marine Dock Fenders for deployment between a floating vessel and a dock or an adjacent floating vessel, defined by a flat rear wall and a convexly arched front wall integrally joined along their peripheral edges, together enclosing a hollow interior chamber, and having lateral wing flanges extending sidewise from the upper side edges of the rear base panel with securing eyes formed therein to receive a securing line employed to anchor the fender with its wing flanges flexibly bent backward behind the rear base panel. When this fender is cleated near the edge of a boat deck, its backwardly bent wing flanges rest on the deck, suspending the fender directly in front of the sheer line deck edge, firmly retaining the fender against dislodgement.


1. A vertically elongated portable resilient fender for suspended deployment between a dock and and adjacent floating vessel, defined by
a substantially flat rear base wall having an upper edge, a lower edge and elongated substantially vertical side edges,

a forwardly convexly arched front wall having a rim integrally joined around its periphery to the base wall near its periphery,

a pair of flexible wing flanges respectively extending in opposite lateral directions from the upper part of each elongated vertical side edge of the substantially flat rear base wall, forming therewith a flat flexible T-shaped base wall whose laterally extending flexible upper wing flange portions may both be bent rearwardly for interfering engagement in the manner of rearwardly projecting elbows overlying the outer edge of a deck or dock, and

means forming a deployment eye in each wing flange, whereby a deploying line secured in each wing flange eye can be secured to a supporting structure, thereby suspending the U Type Fender with its wing flanges flexed and bent rearwardly by the depolying line secured thereto.



2. The resilient fender defined in claim 1 wherein the rear base wall is vertically elongated in a substantially rectangular shape.

3. The resilient fender defined in claim 2 wherein the arched front wall is elongated in a generally semi-cylindrical configuration.

4. The resilient fender defined in claim 3 wherein the arched front wall is provided with slanting upper and lower end walls joining the respective upper and lower ends of the rear base wall to intermidiate sections of the generallly semi-cylindrical arched front wall.

5. The resilient fender defined in claim 1 wherein the arched front wall and the rear base wall define therebetween a hollow enclosed interior chamber.

6. The resilient fender defined in claim 2 wherein the wing flanges extend from the upper end of the rear base wall substantially in the plane of the rear base wall.

7. The resilient fender defined in claim 1, further including an anchoring flange extending upward from the upper end of the base wall, with means forming a suspending eye therein.

8. The resilient fender defined in claim 2 wherein the rear base wall extends laterally beyond the arched front wall to form a lateral rim along each elongated side edge of the rear base wall, resisting rolling of the fender.

9. The resilient fender defined in claim 8, further including means forming a corner eye in the lower end of each lateral rim near the lower end of the vertically elongated Tug fenders.