Abstract: A line management system for an outrigger structure is provided for guiding outrigger cords through cord passages to maintain an independent longitudinal displacement in order to prevent entanglement. The system includes a plurality of outrigger cords, cord management units, and retention devices. The plurality of cord management units are coupled to the outrigger structure and are longitudinally spaced one from the other along the outrigger structure. Each of the cord management units defines a plurality of transversely offset cord passages respectively guiding predetermined ones of outrigger cords to maintain an independent longitudinal displacement relative to the outrigger structure.
Abstract: A grab handle assembly is provided for a motor vehicle. That grab handle assembly includes a grab handle, a reel, a line wound on the reel and an anchor point for the line when the line is extended from the reel.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
July 11, 2016
Date of Patent:
July 16, 2019
Assignee:
Ford Global Technologies LLC
Inventors:
John Andrew Stakoe, Jed Paul Durkin, Jeff Todd Baxter
Abstract: A line management system for an outrigger structure is provided for guiding outrigger cords through cord passages to maintain an independent longitudinal displacement in order to prevent entanglement. The system includes a plurality of outrigger cords, cord management units, and retention devices. The plurality of cord management units are coupled to the outrigger structure and are longitudinally spaced one from the other along the outrigger structure. Each of the cord management units defines a plurality of transversely offset cord passages respectively guiding predetermined ones of outrigger cords to maintain an independent longitudinal displacement relative to the outrigger structure.
Abstract: There is a removable clothesline which has at least two arms with respective waH plates for fixing to a support wall. The arms have outer free ends and inner base sections which in use of the clothesline removably engage the wall plates in a manner whereby the arms extend from the support wall at spaced apart locations to deploy at least one clothesline cord therebetween. The arms upon removal being adapted for placement in a side-by-side storage configuration with the free end of at least one of said arms locating in an aperture in the inner base section of another of said arms.
Abstract: A system for stabilizing articles is provided. The system is particularly well-suited for stabilizing plastic grocery bags during transport in a vehicle. The system comprises a stabilizing element that, when in use, extends from a first point to a second point and passes through the handles of a bag to be stabilized. Preferably, the first and second points are fixed, either detachably or semi-permanently, on the sidewalls in the interior of a vehicle. Further, the stabilizing element preferably is flexible. In addition, the stabilizing element preferably can be disconnected from the second point and also preferably, the stabilizing element can recoil into a location at the first point so that only a portion of the stabilizing element is visible. Other preferred embodiments of the present invention, including those with intermediary fixtures or intermediary support features, as well as those with multiple stabilizing elements, also are disclosed.
Abstract: A C-clamp type bracket is attached to a back end of the horizontal portion of a garage door track. A clothesline is attached to a bottom end of an arm extending downwardly from the C-clamp type bracket and to the top of a vertical portion of the garage door track. Bolts through loops in the ends of the clothesline secure the clothesline to a hole in the arm and the vertical portion of the garage door track or a bracket attaching the vertical portion to the garage door frame. The garage door track clothesline device may be suspended temporarily or permanently from the garage door track.