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Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) received Patent No. 121,992 for "An Improvement in Adjustable and Detachable Straps for Garments." He later received two more patents: one for a self-pasting scrapbook and one for a game to help players remember important historical dates.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7108099 | Personal safety methods and apparatus A safety anchor (20) for securing a user to a substantially vertical safety structure, e.g., elevator cable (21). Safety anchor (20) includes a back plate (26) to which are pivotally mounted a roller (28), inner cam assembly (30... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7080716 | Movable fall prevention device for a belay support A movable fall-preventing device (1) for a belay support (6) includes an axis-retaining groove which retains the belay support (6) by means of a lever (16) that pivots between an open position and a closed position. One end of the lever c... | 07/25/2006 |
| 7007772 | Fall-arresting device A fall-arresting device includes a body which has a runner, two pivoting cams, and a system for actuating at least one of these cams in the event of the user or of a load falling. The body has an elongate opening intended to accommodate the member allowing th... | 03/07/2006 |
| 6321658 | Mobile jaw vice for clamping and unclamping vehicles to and from a traction cable of a transport system A mobile jaw (11,12) vice (10) for clamping and unclamping vehicles (19) to and from a traction cable (13) of a single-cable or two-cable transport system, such as a chair lift, a funicular cableway and a city transport system or a telpher, comprising a l... | 11/27/2001 |
| 6290425 | Detachable clamp with a leaf spring The disengageable clamp of a cable car or chair lift has a control lever 17 carrying the movable jaw 14, articulated on the fixed jaw 13. At least one flexion leaf spring 23 is interposed between the clamp body 10 and the control lever 17 in order to forc... | 09/18/2001 |
| 6024022 | Disengageable clamp of a traction cable type conveyor A traction cable-type vehicle for a reserved lane conveyor is equipped with a disengageable clamp secured below the vehicle. A mobile jaw of the clamp is designed as an elbow lever mounted in a swiveling manner on a fixed pin, and is arranged above the ca... | 02/15/2000 |
| 5595122 | Funicular system of rail and running cable type In order to operate both arms of a clamp of a funicular system of a rail and running cable vehicle with the same force and at the same time, a guide carrier element, which includes two longitudinal surfaces over which the free ends of the movable jaws mov... | 01/21/1997 |
| 5582109 | Double-acting clamp for coupling a funicular vehicle to the running cable A double-acting clamp for coupling a funicular vehicle to a running cable wherein in order to reduce the overall size as much as possible, a clamp has jaw operating arms substantially perpendicular to the jaws of each arm and said jaw operating arms defin... | 12/10/1996 |
| 5568771 | Detachable grip for coupling cars or chairs of a gondola lift or chairlift A detachable grip of a gondola lift or chairlift has a movable jaw urged towards a fixed jaw by a pair of compression springs. The movable jaw is rigidly secured to one end of an operating lever, which pivots in a vertical plane containing the grip body t... | 10/29/1996 |
| 5520116 | Detachable grip for a vehicle towed by a cable Vehicles of a passenger transport installation are hauled along a track by a traction cable. Each vehicle is equipped with a detachable grip having a pair of jaws for clamping the traction cable. A grip control mechanism comprises a toggle device with a s... | 05/28/1996 |
| 5452662 | Device for coupling a gondola or a chair to the overhead cable of a cableway system A device for coupling a ferry, such as a gondola or chair, to the hoisting r load cable of an overhead cableway system includes a clamping body with rollers. A first clamping jaw is rigidly secured. A second clamping jaw can be swiveled relative to the fir... | 09/26/1995 |
| 5174219 | Bogie for a track-guided vehicle The bogie (1) features a pair of running wheels (3, 3') running on bearings fastened to a rocking frame (4). The rocking frame is hinged on one side to the bogie and connected on the other side over spring devices (5, 5') with the frame. Hereby the runnin... | 12/29/1992 |
| 5111751 | Linkable clamping device for the coupling of transport means to a mobile cable Transport means are clamped to a movable rope (6) with a clamp capable of coupling. The clamp exhibits clamping jaws (4, 5), where one of the clamping jaws (5) can be pressed against the rope (6) based on the force of a spring (14). This clamping jaw (5) ... | 05/12/1992 |
| 5107769 | Grip A grip comprises a body (1) with an abutment and a suitably spring-loaded clamping jaw (3) which is movable relative to the body and which serves to clamp a rope (4) against the abutment so as to fix the grip in the desired position along the rope. The ab... | 04/28/1992 |
| 4846075 | Lockable load attachment device A load attachment device attaching a person to a safety line to provide a fall-arrest facility, comprises a slipper member for engaging an elongate member for sliding movement therealong, and load sensitive locking member having an unlocked condition peri... | 07/11/1989 |
| 4760798 | Device for the automatic connection of a vehicle to the cable or to each of the two cables of a continuously moving cableway A device for the automatic connection of a vehicle to the cable of a continuously moving cableway comprises a clamp which is constituted by two jaws, an inner one and an outer one, carried by the upper end of the vehicle suspension system, and which is ar... | 08/02/1988 |
| 4691643 | Rope coupling carriage having concave track between grips A carriage coupling cars to a carrier-hauling rope of a cable-car comprises two grips having protruding parts above the upper face of the rope. A connecting part with a concave running face facilitating the passage of the grips under the compression sheav... | 09/08/1987 |
| 4686906 | Clamping device with test spring deformation measurement Device for continuously controlling the clamping force in monocable ropew, comprising a test spring which acts against the pressure spring and which is arranged with the latter-mentioned in the pressure mechanism. A signal and/or stop device is responsiv... | 08/18/1987 |
| 4665755 | Device for monitoring the spring force exerted by spring actuated bar coupled cable clamps for chair lifts and cable cars A spring actuator having a multiplicity of plate springs whose force is to be monitored, is retained on a thrust cam where it is located between a thrust ring and a fixed collar. Between the collar and the spring stack are arranged two rotating and latera... | 05/19/1987 |
| 4658733 | Aerial tramway grip assembly A haul rope grip assembly for an aerial tramway is disclosed which is suitable for both detachable and permanent gripping of the tramway haul rope. The assembly includes a gripping head having a pair of relatively spaced apart converging haul rope grippin... | 04/21/1987 |
| 4653406 | Device for the clamping and the automatic catching of vehicles to the driving cable of aerial transport plants A vise is constituted by a stationary jaw and a movable jaw, pivoted to each other, and suitable to be clamped onto a cable by means of the action of at least one spring. The stationary jaw is prolonged into a supporting pin for the vehicles, and the mova... | 03/31/1987 |
| 4633783 | Device for clamping and supporting a transport apparatus on a conveying cable On the main shaft (2) of a clamping device (1), a guide-pulley (14) is provided. At the end of the main shaft, an inner clamping jaw (3) is rotatably mounted. An outer clamping jaw (7) is hinged to the inner clamping jaw (3) and connected rotation-fast to... | 01/06/1987 |
| 4441430 | Aerial monocable transport installation Aerial monocable chairlift or gondola lift having detachable grips for coupling the chairs or gondolas to the continuously moving cable. Each grip, in the form of a plier, has a pair of jaws, the outer profile of the jaws being so designed that the grip p... | 04/10/1984 |
| 4297951 | Detachable grip for coupling a carriage The invention relates to a detachable grip of a mono-cable transport installation. The grip has a pair of jaws which is both pivotally mounted on a spindle and urged into a clamping position by means of a compression spring which acts on a piston connecte... | 11/03/1981 |
