Handling: hand and hoist-line implements – Grapple – Resilient jaws
Patent
1999-05-24
2000-08-22
Kramer, Dean J.
Handling: hand and hoist-line implements
Grapple
Resilient jaws
294 11, 294 821, B66C 142
Patent
active
061060429
ABSTRACT:
A manually-operable device for use by tree stand hunters for retrieving items that have been left on the ground or that have fallen from the hunter or tree stand onto the ground, includes an elongated shank, a rope having one end attached to the shank and an opposite end for grasping by the hunter situated in the tree stand, a plurality of flexible arms attached to the shank which are movable from an open position to a gripping position and are radially disposed circumjacent the longitudinal axis of the shank, a trigger plate slidably mounted on the arms for selectively spreading the arms and selectively closing the arms so that the item can be retrieved and released, and a weighted disc mounted on the shank for linear, reciprocable movement thereon so that the movement of the disc on the shank causes the disc to contact the trigger plate thereby forcing the trigger plate to slide on the arms, thus drawing the arms toward the shank axis so that the arms engage and retrieve the item.
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Atwell George C.
Kramer Dean J.
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