Abstract: A belt-attachable caddy for carrying a retractable and fast-deploying grappling hook houses a slotted receptacle for a removable plate mounting a take-up reel around which a cable secured to an eyelet on the hook is wound. The hook has a plurality of tines foldable around a central shaft that can quickly be individually set into a deployed position or a retracted position with no more than two turns of a capping head. The speed and ease of operation of the deploying and locking mechanism are due in part to the concavely machined undersurface of the head which mirrors the path end of the tines hinged to the side of the shaft. The same locking maneuver and adjustment of the head apply coincidently to the deployed and retracted tines.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
October 2, 2013
Date of Patent:
September 29, 2015
Assignee:
FORCE MULTIPLIER, LLC
Inventors:
Brian M. Miller, John Cramer, David B. Lyon, Eric J. Hostetler, Bernard M. F. Welsch
Abstract: A belt-attachable caddy for carrying a retractable and fast-deploying grappling hook houses a slotted receptacle for a removable plate mounting a take-up reel around which a cable secured to an eyelet on the hook is wound. The hook has a plurality of tines foldable around a central shaft that can quickly be individually set into a deployed position or a retracted position with no more than two turns of a capping head. The speed and ease of operation of the deploying and locking mechanism are due in part to the concavely machined undersurface of the head which mirrors the path end of the tines hinged to the side of the shaft. The same locking maneuver and adjustment of the head apply coincidently to the deployed and retracted tines.
Type:
Application
Filed:
October 2, 2013
Publication date:
January 30, 2014
Applicant:
FORCE MULTIPLIER, LLC
Inventors:
Brian M. Miller, John Cramer, David B. Lyon, Eric J. Hostetler, Bernard M.F. Welsch
Abstract: A retractable and fast-deploying grappling hook has a plurality of tines foldable around a central shaft that can quickly be individually set into a deployed position or a retracted position with no more than two turns of a capping head. The speed and ease of operation of the deploying and locking mechanism are due in part to the concavely machined undersurface of the head which mirrors the path end of the tines hinged to the side of the shaft. The same locking maneuver and adjustment of the head apply coincidentally to the deployed and retracted tines. A belt-attachable caddy houses a slotted receptacle for a removable plate mounting a take-up reel around which a cable secured to an eyelet at the proximal end of the shaft can be wound.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
September 16, 2011
Date of Patent:
October 15, 2013
Assignee:
Force Multiplier, LLC
Inventors:
Brian M. Miller, John Cramer, David B. Lyon, Eric J. Hostetler, Bernard M. F. Welsch