Supports – Brackets – Specially mounted or attached
Reexamination Certificate
2011-07-26
2011-07-26
McKinnon, Terrell (Department: 3632)
Supports
Brackets
Specially mounted or attached
C248S220210, C182S129000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07984887
ABSTRACT:
A ladder locking device having a harness and a lock shuttle for retaining a ladder on a rack or other storage device. The harness having a pair of parallel spaced apart arms and an intermediary arm integrally formed with the spaced apart arms. The lock shuttle having a pair of harness holes adapted to receive the pair of spaced apart arms of the harness and a pair of thumb release assemblies adapted to retain the harness in the lock shuttle and to release the harness from the lock shuttle. The intermediary arm and the lock shuttle each have a flexible pad. The pad of the lock shuttle is retained in a pad holder and there is an adjustment knob in mechanical communication with the pad holder that moves the pad holder from an expanded position to a retracted position to securely retain a ladder on a storage device.
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Garrett Tanya L.
Marsh Steven M
McKinnon Terrell
T.L. Garrett, PLC
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