IP Library Granted Patent US 12,448,085
Granted Patent B2
US 12,448,085 · App. 18/666,961 · Granted Oct 21, 2025

Boat with movable stern platform and made of two parts

Inventor: Massimo Giottoli (Forlì, IT)
Assignee: FERRETTI S.P.A.
B63B27/16B63B23/40B63B27/36B63B2029/022
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Patent No.
US 12,448,085
App. No.
18/666,961
Granted
Oct 21, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

A boat includes a hull having a movable stern platform which can be lowered into the water so as to allow to drop or retrieve a small vessel associated with the boat into/from such water. The stern platform includes two movable parts differently from each other.

Claims (28)

1. A boat comprising a hull having a transom having a stern platform, such stern platform comprising a first part or fixed platform and a second part or movable platform, there being provided for actuator means adapted to move the movable platform from a navigation position towards the water in which the boat is found or to lift such movable platform from the water to return the movable platform to such navigation position in which it is removed from the water,

wherein the movable platform comprises a first portion and a second portion, the first portion having a planar surface and the second portion having a planar surface, both such portions being walkable when the movable platform is in the navigation position and the movable platform is lifted from the water, said portions lying on a common plane when the platform is in said position so that both can be walkable,

wherein there is provided for at least one element for supporting the first portion of the movable platform fixed to the hull of the boat, said movable platform rotating with respect to said at least one support element,

both said portions being movable with respect to the hull of the boat and being mutually interconnected,

the first portion being adapted to rotate with respect to the hull and the second portion being adapted to translate with respect to the such hull remaining on a horizontal plane,

the first portion having opposed first end and second end and the first portion being hinged to the hull at the first end and the second portion being hinged to the second end of the first portion,

said actuator means being an articulated parallelogram mechanism adapted to carry out the movements of the platform portions mentioned above.

2. The boat according to claim 1 , wherein the first portion of the movable platform is hinged to the second portion of the movable platform.

3. The boat according to claim 1 , wherein the first portion of the movable platform rotates with respect to the hull simultaneously with the translation of the second portion of the movable platform.

4. The boat according to claim 1 , wherein the fixed platform has a first portion fixed platform and a second portion fixed platform integrally joined with the hull of the boat positioned on the sides of the movable platform and laterally delimiting the moveable platform and the first portion planar surface is from the first portion fixed platform to the second portion fixed platform, and the second portion planar surface is from the first portion fixed platform to the second portion fixed platform.

5. The boat according to claim 4 , wherein the first portion of the movable platform is associated with at least one arm of the articulated parallelogram mechanism underlying the first portion mentioned above, said first portion of the movable platform and said arm being separately hinged to said support element.

6. The boat according to claim 1 , wherein the articulated parallelogram actuator means comprise an actuator member hinged at one end to said at least one support element and hinged at the other end to a body alternatively fixed to said arm or to the first platform portion.

7. The boat according to claim 5 , wherein said arm is hinged to a body fixed beneath the second movable platform portion, such body being hinged to the first portion of the movable platform, the distance between said hinges of the body fixed beneath the second platform portion and hinged to the first platform portion being equal to the distance between the hinges which constrain the first movable platform portion to the relative support element and the underlying arm to such first movable platform portion.

8. The boat according to claim 6 , wherein said actuator means comprise an actuator of the hydraulic, pneumatic, or hydro-pneumatic type comprising at least one cylinder having the end hinged to the support element and a plunger hinged to a body alternatively integrally joined with said arm or with said first platform portion.

9. The boat according to claim 6 , wherein said actuator means comprise an electric actuator.

10. The boat according to claim 7 , wherein the body associated with the second movable platform portion is hinged to a bracket fixed to the first movable platform portion in proximity of an end of such second movable platform portion, such hinging defining the hinging between said first and second movable platform portion.

11. The boat according to claim 1 , comprising a stern compartment provided with a closing hold door thereof and in whose proximity there is the first portion of the movable platform.

12. The boat according to claim 10 , wherein there is provided for a roller unit which can be removed from said stern compartment and which can be constrained to the second portion of the movable platform.

13. A boat comprising a hull having a transom having a stern platform, such stern platform comprising a first part or fixed platform and a second part or movable platform, there being provided for actuator means adapted to move the movable platform from a navigation position towards the water in which the boat is found or to lift such movable platform from the water to return the movable platform to such navigation position in which it is removed from the water,

wherein the movable platform comprises a first portion and a second portion, both such portions being walkable when the movable platform is in the navigation position and the movable platform is lifted from the water, said portions lying on a common plane when the platform is in said position so that both can be walkable,

both said portions being movable with respect to the hull of the boat and being mutually interconnected,

the first portion being adapted to rotate with respect to the hull and the second portion being adapted to translate with respect to the such hull remaining on a horizontal plane,

said actuator means being an articulated parallelogram mechanism adapted to carry out the movements of the platform portions mentioned above,

wherein there is provided for at least one element for supporting the first portion of the movable platform fixed to the hull of the boat, said movable platform rotating with respect to said at least one support element, and

wherein said arm is hinged to a body fixed beneath the second movable platform portion, such body being hinged to the first portion of the movable platform, the distance between said hinges of the body fixed beneath the second platform portion and hinged to the first platform portion being equal to the distance between the hinges which constrain the first movable platform portion to the relative support element and the underlying arm to such first movable platform portion.

14. The boat according to claim 13 , wherein the first portion of the movable platform is associated with at least one arm of the articulated parallelogram mechanism underlying the first portion mentioned above, said first portion of the movable platform and said arm being separately hinged to said support element.

15. The boat according to claim 13 , wherein the body associated with the second movable platform portion is hinged to a bracket fixed to the first movable platform portion in proximity of an end of such second movable platform portion, such hinging defining the hinging between said first and second movable platform portion.

16. The boat according to claim 15 , wherein there is provided for a roller unit which can be removed from said stern compartment and which can be constrained to the second portion of the movable platform.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded May 17, 2024
From: GIOTTOLI, MASSIMO
To: FERRETTI S.P.A.
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Priority Claims (1)
IT 102023000012189 · Jun 14, 2023 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20240417038A1 · Dec 19, 2024
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