US Patent Issued to Brunswick on Jan. 13 for "Propulsor assemblies having wear resistant snubber" (Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,522,337, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Brunswick Corp. (Mettawa, Ill.).

"Propulsor assemblies having wear resistant snubber" was invented by Brad J. VanRuiswyk (Waupun, Wis.), Jay P. Dehling (Oshkosh, Wis.), Steven D. Draves (Fond du Lac, Wis.) and Gregg D. Langenfeld (Fond du Lac, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A propulsor assembly for a marine drive has a propulsor, an adapter having a stem which supports the propulsor, a wear resistant snubber on the stem, and an elastomeric member which is sandwiched between the wear resistant snubber and the stem, the elastomeric member being configured to bias the wear resistant snubber r...