Pick-up tool with replaceable center strap

Details Pick-up tool with replaceable center strap Pick-up tool with replaceable center strap

2007-08-28

2007-08-28

Kramer, Dean J. (Department: 3652)

Handling: hand and hoist-line implements

Hand bars and hand barrows

Ball retriever

C294S100000

Reexamination Certificate

active

10973512

ABSTRACT:
A hand actuated pick-up tool including an elongated hollow shaft having distal and proximal ends; first and second flexible grip members at the distal end of the hollow shaft for grasping an object; a center strap extending from the grip members interiorly within the shaft; and a handle located on the proximal end of the shaft. The handle includes a trigger mechanism for drawing the center strap rearward in order to actuate the grip members, where the trigger device includes a channel for receiving and releasably retaining the center strap. The center strap is detachable from the trigger mechanism, and the handle includes an aperture allowing access to the trigger device channel and the center strap, and enabling the center strap to be inserted and withdrawn through the aperture, permitting replacement of the center strap.

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patent: 5458385 (1995-10-01), Peeples
patent: 5577785 (1996-11-01), Traber et al.
patent: 5704674 (1998-01-01), Boozer

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