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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7407430 | Adjustable front closure for bra or bikini top A bra having a pair of cups having adjacent but spaced inner edges is provided with a front closure/adjuster that has respective flexible cords attached to the cup inner edges and each carrying a succession of spaced relatively hard pearls. A generally rigid body be... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7392974 | Rope/wire puller A rope/wire pulling device designed to provide maximum pulling pressure by the use of two handles and a non-slip ratcheting clutch which grasps the rope or wire tighter as additional pulling pressure is applied. ... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7337504 | Quick engage/disengage rope cleat A rope cleat including at least rope abutment and at least one cam mounted on a flat base surface. The cam is spring biased to rotate toward an abutment surface. A cover is positionable over the cam and abutment such that, in one position, the rope is restrained fro... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7287304 | Cam cleat construction A cam cleat particularly usable for securing laces of footwear which is easy and quick to assembly making use of a base member with vertically extending studs including vertical slots defined therein to facilitate the studs flexing inwardly to a smaller diameter to ... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7284797 | Backrest adjustment structure for baby stroller A backrest adjustment structure for adjusting the reclined position of the backrest of the seat of a baby stroller is disclosed to include a belt connected between the ends of the handlebar of the baby stroller at the back side of the backrest of the seat, a housing... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7140585 | One-hand clip capable of preventing hanging object from dropping A one-hand clip of the present invention is composed of a main body, a pair of semicircular hooks a pair of rotating pins and a pair of elastic bodies. The hooks each fixed by a rotating pin and an elastic body at each bottom end of the main body pinches an inserted... | 11/28/2006 |
| 7076844 | Open sided cam lock for ropes A cam lock device for flexible ropes, cords or similar elongated materials has a pivotable cam element with a convexly curved, preferably knurled periphery and an eccentrically located pivot point supporting it on a base. A stationary cam surface integral with the b... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7073780 | Fail-safe cleat with automatic in-line locking cam A failsafe cleat with automatic in-line locking cam includes a frame having proximate and a remote sides on substantially opposite sides of the frame and formed with a passageway, extending between said proximate and remote sides, for receiving a line that can move ... | 07/11/2006 |
| 7039987 | Suspension system A suspension or staying system uses a length of wire or cable with a hook or plain bead secured to one end. The hook may be secured directly or indirectly to a structure. The other or free end of the wire or cable is extended through a jam cleat and around an object... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7028580 | Rotational cable shortening device A rotational cable shortening system for shortening the effective length of a cable by bending a section of the cable. The shortening system comprises a rotatable bridged channel through which the cable is threaded. Upon rotation of the bridged channel, the cable is... | 04/18/2006 |
| 6966534 | Wire system for hanging picture frames A wire system for use with picture frames and other items to be hung from or mounted to a vertical support. The wire system includes a base that includes a plurality of openings and rotatable levers that include respective internal passageways. Wire is installed thr... | 11/22/2005 |
| 6682533 | Surgical cable system and method A surgical cable system and method for securing surgical cable around a portion of a human element (e.g., bone) are described. The surgical cable system may include a connector and a tensioner. The connector may be adapted to hold a pin, positionable with... | 01/27/2004 |
| 6418592 | Rope gripper A rope gripper for connecting for example a rope operated switch to a rope. The gripper comprises a body defining a passage into which a rope can be inserted. Two jaws are mounted eccentrically on pivot pins on either side of the passage and biased toward... | 07/16/2002 |
| 6391030 | Surgical cable system and method A surgical cable system and method for securing surgical cable around a portion of a human element (e.g., bone) is described. The surgical cable system may include a connector and a tensioner. The connector may be adapted to hold a pin, positionable withi... | 05/21/2002 |
| 6223403 | Locking device for child seat A locking device for a child seat includes slant faces, and a clamping unit having a tiltable clamping roller and a knob for tilting the roller. The slant faces may be formed on a base back of the child seat. A shoulder webbing is inserted between the rol... | 05/01/2001 |
| 6178604 | Clothesline line tightener A clothesline connector for connecting two ends of a clothesline to each other to form a loop. The connector has a frame and two spring loaded gripping members. The frame is a two piece assembly having a top piece ultrasonically welded to top ends of pivo... | 01/30/2001 |
| 6123571 | Conductor stress relief apparatus A stress relief apparatus for a conductor has two bodies, at least one of which pivots so as to grip the conductor. The bodies have first and second contours, respectively. The contours face each other, so that the smallest distance between the first and ... | 09/26/2000 |
| 5996256 | Footwear construction with improved closure means A footwear device with an improved means of closing thereof utilizing a lacing means extending through eyelets or hooks and being fixedly secured in a tightened position extending therethrough by being positioned through a cam cleat. Preferably the config... | 12/07/1999 |
| 5852853 | Clothesline line tightener A clothesline connector for connecting two ends of a clothesline to each other to form a loop. The connector has a frame and two spring loaded gripping members. The frame is a two piece assembly having a top piece ultrasonically welded to top ends of pivo... | 12/29/1998 |
| 5716306 | Free weight self spotting apparatus An exercise apparatus for assisting a person to safely do free weight lifting exercises without the aid of a human assistant. The apparatus is comprised of a pair of vertical cables secured at their upper ends to an overhead support structure, such struct... | 02/10/1998 |
| 5472160 | Splice closure and grip block An optical fiber cable closure assembly includes a base member and a mating cover which, when assembled form a hollow splice closure with openings at each end. Mounted to the base member at at least one end thereof is a grip block assembly which grips the... | 12/05/1995 |
| 5279020 | Rope clutch A rope clutch having a plurality of apertured pivoted plates which grip or release a rope passing through their apertures according to the angle they make to the rope, has a mechanism for initiating release of the rope which includes a variable toggle lin... | 01/18/1994 |
| 5076400 | Self-jamming safety device for a rope A self-jamming safety device for a rope comprises two pulleys, one of which is fixed on a base flange, and the other on a support plate capable of pivoting on an articulation spindle. The pulley is provided with a first braking surface, against which the ... | 12/31/1991 |
| 5070805 | Camming cleat member for rope A camming cleat for securing a length of line or rope to a boat or other such object, with the camming cleat being designed to simultaneously retain and hold one or a pair of lines in cleated relationship. The device includes a generally conically arrange... | 12/10/1991 |
| 4899423 | Rope cleat A rope cleat having a base, a rope abutment structure on the base, a cam, and components for mounting the cam on the base so that the cam can rotate about a rotational axis for purposes of gripping a rope between the cam and the rope abutment structure is... | 02/13/1990 |
| 4881622 | Safety grab protection device A safety grab protection device that both operates bi-directionally for connecting a safety belt lanyard to a vertical safety rope and has contoured cam surfaces that engage the safety rope in such a way that the shape of the braking surfaces engage the r... | 11/21/1989 |
| 4843687 | Hand held rope cleat A portable hand held rope cleat has two opposing rope gripping rotatable cams affixed to a tubular handle by two convergent side arms. The size and structure of the device allows for easy and comfortable gripping of jib sheets while trimming sails during ... | 07/04/1989 |
| 4766835 | Rope cleat A rope cleat includes a rectangular plastic bottom plate and a nesting sheet steel top plate. Bolt holes in the corners of the plates allow bolts to retain the plates together and to mount the cleat onto a mounting surface. A pair of cam spindles and back... | 08/30/1988 |
| 4620499 | Cam cleat A cam cleat having opposed rotatable rope-gripping cams can be remotely operated by the action of the free end of the rope on an open rope-engaging face of a cam actuating arm, there being a rope-restraining lip overlying the rope-engaging face of the arm... | 11/04/1986 |
| 4457159 | Sheet metal pull clamp A pair of elongated clamp levers are provided and interconnected intermediate their opposite ends for substantially coplanar relative oscillation of the levers to inversely swing corresponding pairs of ends of the levers toward and away from each other. O... | 07/03/1984 |
| 4414910 | Assembly of turnable member and mounting therefor An assembly is disclosed comprising a turnable member and a mounting therefor. The turnable member may be one cam of a cam set for gripping a rope and acting as a cleat. The turnable member has a through bore and is mounted on a pillar of a mounting membe... | 11/15/1983 |
| 4241684 | Tiller steering lock A quick release locking device to hold a tiller arm of a sailing boat is disclosed. The device allows a helmsman to engage or disengage the locking mechanism almost instantaneously with one hand, and also allows the tiller arm to be locked in any position... | 12/30/1980 |
| 4162561 | Strain-relief device for a cable A strain-relief device for a cable, having a clamping space for accommodating a cable portion bounded by three clamping members, the center clamping member being stationary and the two outer clamping members being disposed at the ends of two resilient mov... | 07/31/1979 |
| 4140207 | Reversible cable connector A reversible cable connector to connect a lanyard to a vertically suspended cable of the type which combines a U-shaped shoe to hold the cable in the crotch of the shoe with a lever arm pivotally mounted upon a pivot pin between the side plates of the sho... | 02/20/1979 |
