Handling: hand and hoist-line implements – Grapple – Pivoted jaws
Patent
1992-11-23
1994-03-15
Cherry, Johnny D.
Handling: hand and hoist-line implements
Grapple
Pivoted jaws
294 3, 294 655, 294 85, 294118, B66C 142
Patent
active
052941620
ABSTRACT:
A new and improved grabber apparatus includes first and second clamping arms having clamping fingers, a pivot for the clamping arms permitting them to move back and forth from a clamping to a non-clamping orientation, a spring for biasing the clamping arms in a closed orientation, a trigger for retaining the clamping arms in an open orientation, and idler bars connected to the clamping arms. A flexible cord is connected to the idler arms. A person, such as a hunter, who is in an elevated location, such as on a platform in a tree, can lower the grabber apparatus with the flexible cord using an unwinding and winding device. When the clamping arms are above and near an object to be clamped, they are lowered so that the trigger contacts a solid object near the object to be clamped, within the range of the clamping arms in the open position. Upon contacting the solid object, such as the ground near the object to be clamped, the trigger is actuated, the clamping arms are released from their open position, and the bias spring causes the clamping arms to move to the closed position and to grab the object to be clamped.
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Bender S. Michael
Cherry Johnny D.
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