US 12,030,459 B2
Boat trailer stair system
James D. Sutter, LaBelle, FL (US)
Filed by James D. Sutter, LaBelle, FL (US)
Filed on Aug. 9, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/396,982.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/062,810, filed on Aug. 7, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0041111 A1, Feb. 10, 2022
Int. Cl. B60R 3/00 (2006.01); B60P 3/10 (2006.01)
CPC B60R 3/00 (2013.01) [B60P 3/1033 (2013.01)] 15 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A boat trailer stair system for providing persons with access to a vessel having a hull and supported on a boat trailer, said stair system comprising:
a stairway having interconnected, angularly diverging and oppositely inclined forward and rearward stair sections for positioning adjacent to the hull of the boat supported on the trailer; said stair sections being interconnected at an upper end of said stairway and having diverging lower ends; each said lower end of a respective stair section for being mounted to a longitudinal beam of the trailer at respective, longitudinally spaced apart locations on the beam;
at least one of said inclined stair sections including a plurality of steps arranged in an ascending configuration in said inclined stair section and adapted such that when said forward and rearward stair sections are mounted on the longitudinal beam of the trailer, said steps are arranged adjacent the hull of the supported vessel and ascend said inclined stair section in a direction generally paralleling the orientation of the trailer beam, the hull of the supported vessel and the longitudinal axis of the vessel supported on the trailer.