Outboard motor with bleed for engine cooling jacket

US6036556A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Outboard Marine Corporation · US

Inventors

• Jeffrey L. Baker · Athol, US
• Michael Grant Vogt · Port St. Lucie, US
• Arthur Grey Manchester · Stuart, US
• William Scott Craig · Kenosha, US
• Duane E. Rogers · Kenosha, US
• Charles B. Hall · Ingleside, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Feb 13, 1998
• Grant date: Mar 14, 2000
• Expiry date: Feb 13, 2018

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B63H2011/081
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

Disclosed herein is a jet propulsion unit comprising a housing including a wall defining a water tunnel having therein a water outlet port, and a recess located in the wall defining the tunnel and in surrounding relation to the port, and a screen located in the recess and extending across the port and in flush relation to the wall defining the tunnel.