Handling: hand and hoist-line implements – Hand bars and hand barrows – Ball retriever
Reexamination Certificate
2005-04-05
2005-04-05
Kramer, Dean J. (Department: 3652)
Handling: hand and hoist-line implements
Hand bars and hand barrows
Ball retriever
C294S115000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06874833
ABSTRACT:
A hand-held tool, for grasping items located at a distance from the operator, including a tool body, including a handle extending therefrom, for holding by the operator, and a moveable trigger operably arranged with the handle, at least one movable, pickup finger, for aid in grasping an item in response to squeezing the trigger, a first, elongated, rigid member, attached between the tool body and the at least one moveable finger, for holding the tool body and the at least one moveable finger, in a spaced-apart arrangement, a second, flexible member attached between the trigger and the at least one moveable finger, for moving the finger in response to movement of the trigger, a lockable element, a loosely-arranged binding plate, moveable by the thumb of the hand holding the handle, arranged for movement against the lockable element for permitting infinite locking positions of the at least one movable finger against the item grasped by the finger, and, a socket formed in the tool body for receiving the first, rigid, elongated member, the first, elongated, rigid member being adapted to be pulled out of the socket and be turned in any arrangement about the elongated, rigid member's central axis, for operating the attached at least one moveable finger, in any plane with the plane of the handle.
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Keith Glen S.
Rappl Philip L.
Kramer Dean J.
Murphey & Murphey, A.P.C.
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