Patents Assigned to The New Haven Companies, Inc.
  • Patent number: 7946005
    Abstract: A safety hook includes a hook and a latch. The hook may be a twisted hook with a hooked portion twisted 90 degrees from a strap loop, or a flat ā€œSā€ hook with the hooked portion and the strap loop in a single plane. The latch includes a full circle latch ring and a latch arm. The latch arm extends across a mouth opening of the hooked portion and is biased to prevent the hooked portion from disengaging from a wheel chair or other attachment point without forcing the latch arm away from the mouth. The latch ring resides against a loop portion of the hook and is held in place by grasps, fingers, lips, or the like which reach past center around a cross-section of the loop portion, or by molding-in-place over the loop portion, and by a strap attached around strap loop and the latch ring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2011
    Assignee: The New Haven Companies, Inc.
    Inventor: Ray Lee