Abstract: A hook for gripping chain is asymmetrical so that the effective chain length can be adjusted to a part link tightness. The attachment end of the hook is offset from the plane of the hook end, which includes the slot for receiving a link of a chain. If the chain enters from one side of the hook, the chain and hook have a different angle than when the chain enters from the other side of the hook. The resulting change in angle and hence the way the hook interferes with the chain changes the length of chain required for the chain to reach the slot.

Abstract: A portable chain lock for a chain binder used to tighten a chain holding a load on a truck flat bed. The portable chain lock has an open body with a pin fixed to a bottom wall and extending outwardly between a pair of sidewalls. One of the sidewalls has the first end of a locking chain fixed thereto while the other sidewall has a holding arm having an opening fixed thereto. The pin is passed through a chain link or other opening in one half of the chain binder when the chain binder is in the tightened position. The locking chain is wrapped around the other half of the chain binder with its second or free end looped over the holding arm and secured to the holding arm by a padlock passed through the opening in the holding arm, to thereby lock the chain binder in the chain tightened position.

Abstract: A flexible barrier element for a passageway defined by two spaced posts is held in a raised taut position to block the passageway by placement of a hand lever having a lost motion connection with the barrier element in a level position of engagement with a bracket fixed on one post. Swinging of the hand lever to a depressed position relative to the bracket on which it is pivotally mounted slackens the flexible barrier element and lowers it to a ground level position allowing unobstructed passage between the posts defining the passageway. A second bracket on the second post has a flexible barrier element attached to it.

Abstract: The lift system for the mast assembly of a lift truck normally includes at least one hydraulic cylinder and a pair of lift chains for selectively raising and lowering a movable assembly (upright or carriage assembly) on a fixed upright assembly. The tensions in the lift chains must be precisely set and periodically adjusted by use of an adjustable anchor, including a bolt threadably mounted on the fixed upright assembly and connected to the chain. Space limitations in present day mast assemblies have dictated the need for an adjustable chain anchor that is compact and is designed to be conveniently mounted on an upper end of the fixed upright assembly for ready access. The adjustable chain anchor (19) of this invention solves this problem by providing a cam member (26) adapted to be rotated to adjust chain tension in response to selective rotation of an end of the chain (17) about a fixed pivot axis (A).

Abstract: A log handling device for biased, adjustable circumferential envelopment of a log during a splitting operation to maintain the general conformation thereof as the same is reduced to a plurality of split elements and provide an ability to grasp the log, whether whole or split, is disclosed herein.

Abstract: A chain for binding logs on a transport platform may be fabricated from a plurality of sequentially connected generally planar links, each link having laterally directed, log-penetrating extensions mounted to its external sides and having an elongated member with two log-penetrating ends rigidly mounted between the sides of the link normal to the plane of the link. A combination of the chain with an over-center binder attached to said chain and having a chain-engageable first end is also disclosed.

Abstract: A stretching device for stretching of a tire chain, particularly an anti-skid chain. The stretching device comprises a stretching spring, a stretching aggregate for stretching the spring and a stretching element for maintaining an associated tire chain in a stretched position when the spring is stretched. The stretching device eliminates the need for adjusting the tire chain to compensate for slack caused by revolution of the wheels carrying the tire chain.

Abstract: A flexible barrier element for a passageway defined by two spaced posts is held in a raised taut position to block the passageway by placement of a hand lever having a lost motion connection with the barrier element in a level position of engagement with a bracket fixed on one post. Swinging of the hand lever to a depressed position relative to the bracket on which it is pivotally mounted slackens the flexible barrier element and lowers it to a ground level position allowing unobstructed passage between the posts defining the passageway. A second bracket on the second post has a flexible barrier element attached to it.