Boat Fender

Abstract

A boat fender is disclosed. The fender has a body having a width, a depth, a first bumper, and a second bumper. The first and second bumper may have an enlarged first intermediate portion. The first bumper is width adjacent the second bumper.

The invention claimed is: 
     
         1 . A boat fender, comprising:
 a body comprising,
 a width and a depth, the width is greater than the depth; 
 a height elongated first bumper comprising an enlarged first intermediate portion vertically offset from a middle of a height of the first bumper; 
 a height elongated second bumper comprising an enlarged second intermediate portion vertically offset from a middle of a height of the second bumper; and, 
 the first bumper is width adjacent the second bumper. 
   
     
     
         2 . The boat fender of  claim 1 , wherein the body comprises a height that is greater than the depth. 
     
     
         3 . The boat fender of  claim 1 , wherein the first bumper and the second bumper continuously narrow from the respective intermediate portions to opposite vertical ends of the respective bumper. 
     
     
         4 . The boat fender of  claim 1 , wherein each of the first bumper and the second bumper comprise a plurality of elliptical cross-sections. 
     
     
         5 . The boat fender of  claim 1 , wherein each of the first bumper and the second bumper comprise a plurality of circular cross-sections. 
     
     
         6 . The boat fender of  claim 5 , wherein the plurality of circular cross-sections comprise reducing diameters from the first intermediate portion and the second intermediate portions to the respective first top and second top and from the first intermediate portion and the second intermediate portion to the respective first bottom and second bottom. 
     
     
         7 . The boat fender of  claim 6 , wherein the intermediate portions are closer to the respective bottoms than to the respective tops of the respective bumpers. 
     
     
         8 . The boat fender of  claim 6 , wherein the body comprises a bridge between the first bumper and the second bumper. 
     
     
         9 . The boat fender of  claim 8 , wherein the bridge is an upper bridge and the body comprises a lower bridge between the first bumper and the second bumper. 
     
     
         10 . The boat fender of  claim 8 , wherein the bridge comprises a rope aperture. 
     
     
         11 . The boat fender of  claim 8 , wherein the bridge comprises an inflation port in communication with a hollow interior of the body, the hollow interior extends into the first bumper and the second bumper. 
     
     
         12 . The boat fender of  claim 8 , wherein the bridge comprises a tab extending above the first bumper and the second bumper. 
     
     
         13 . The boat fender of  claim 1 , wherein
 the body comprises a height that is greater than the depth;   the first bumper and the second bumper continuously narrow from the respective intermediate portions to opposite vertical ends of the respective bumper   each of the first bumper and the second bumper comprise a plurality of circular cross-sections;   the plurality of circular cross-sections comprise reducing diameters from the first intermediate portion and the second intermediate portions to the respective first top and second top and from the first intermediate portion and the second intermediate portion to the respective the first bottom and second bottom;   the intermediate portions are closer to the respective bottoms than to the respective tops;   the body comprises a bridge between the first bumper and the second bumper;   the bridge comprises a tunnel extending from a first side to a second side of the bridge;   the bridge comprises an inflation port in communication with a hollow interior of the body, the hollow interior extends into the first bumper and the second bumper; and,   the bridge comprises a tab extending above the first bumper and the second bumper.   
     
     
         14 . A boat fender, comprising:
 a body comprising,
 a width and a depth, the width is greater than the depth; 
 a teardrop shaped first bumper comprising an enlarged first intermediate portion; 
 a teardrop shaped second bumper comprising an enlarged second intermediate portion; and, 
 the first bumper is width adjacent the second bumper. 
   
     
     
         15 . A boat fender, comprising:
 a body comprising,
 a width and a depth; 
 an attachment portion; 
 a spherical first bumper, 
 a spherical second bumper, 
 the first bumper is width adjacent the second bumper, the width at the first bumper and the second bumper is greater than the depth; and, 
 the attachment portion is above the first bumper and the second bumper and narrower than the width at the first bumper and the second bumper. 
   
     
     
         16 . The boat fender of  claim 15 , wherein the first bumper merges with the second bumper. 
     
     
         17 . The boat fender of  claim 15 , wherein the body comprises a weight, the weight is at a bottom of the first bumper and the second bumper. 
     
     
         18 . The boat fender of  claim 15 , wherein the body comprises a weight and a weight protrusion, the weight protrusion extends below the first bumper and the second bumper, the weight is at least partially housed in the weight protrusion. 
     
     
         19 . The boat fender of  claim 15 , wherein the first bumper and the second bumper are horizontally aligned. 
     
     
         20 . The boat fender of  claim 15 , wherein
 the body comprises a vertical sagittal mid-plane and the first bumper and the second bumper merge at the vertical sagittal mid-plane;   the body comprises a vertical frontal mid-plane and the body is symmetric about the vertical frontal mid-plane; and,   the attachment portion widens from a top of the attachment portion to the first bumper and the second bumper.