REMOTE ANCHORING APPARATUS

• US 20190323656A1
• Filed: 01/01/2018
• Published: 10/24/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 01/03/2017
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Highnovate
• Original Assignee: Highnovate
• Inventors: KATZNELSON, Beeri Berl
• Granted Patent: US 11,067,220 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: B66C 13/02 Devices for facilitating retrieval of floating objects, e.g. for recovering crafts from water handling live-boats B63B; salvaging, or hauling-out on slipways, waterborne vessels B63C; winding mechanism controls B66D1/52
• CPC Class Codes: E06C 1/36 Ladders suspendable by hooks or the like ladderhooks E06C7/505
• CPC Class Codes: E06C 7/00 Component parts, supporting parts, or accessories
• CPC Class Codes: F16M 13/02 for supporting on, or attaching to, an object, e.g. tree, gate, window-frame, cycle

Abstract

A remote anchoring apparatus is mad of two elements, an anchoring element and a connecting element. The connecting element is formed to be guided into a respective space made in the anchoring element and be locked in it. The connecting element may be guided towards the anchoring element by a flexible pulling means such as a rope pulled through the anchoring element.

Claims

1. A remote anchoring apparatus comprising:

an anchoring element comprising;

an anchoring unit at one end of the anchoring element;

an opening at the opposite end of the anchoring element, the opening forms an entrance to a reception section formed as a hollow space in the anchoring element, and is encircled by a bottom circumference element; and

a direction changing unit (DCU) suspended on the anchoring unit and adapted to allow the changing of direction of a flexible pulling means when under tension,

wherein the DCU is adapted to direct a portion of a flexible pulling means passing through the opening substantially in the middle of the opening; and

a connecting element, which is formed with;

an insertion section that is adapted to fit into the reception section of the anchoring element and to allow smooth insertion thereof,

wherein the insertion of the connecting element into the anchoring element is adapted to be performed remotely from a user,

wherein the connecting element is adapted to be inserted into the anchoring element at an insertion angle between zero to [TBD] degrees with respect to the longitudinal axis of the anchoring element,

wherein the connecting element is adapted to be securely locked to the anchoring element via at least one springy pin, and

wherein the locking is adapted to be performed remotely from the user.

2. The apparatus of claim 1 further comprising a flexible pulling means, which is adapted to be connected at one end to the connecting element and to be threaded through the opening of the anchoring element, so that the connecting element is lead towards the opening of the anchoring element when the flexible pulling means is pulled through the anchoring element.

3. The apparatus of claim 2, wherein the connecting element is inserted into the reception section of the anchoring element.

4. The apparatus of claim 3, wherein the connecting element is locked to the anchoring element.

5. The apparatus of claim 3 wherein the flexible pulling element is one from a list comprising a rope, a cable and a chain.

6. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the anchoring element comprises a cone with a wider end closer to the bottom end and diameter gradually getting smaller as much as getting farther from the bottom end of the anchoring element towards its top end.

7. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the DCU is located between the anchoring unit and the opening substantially along the longitudinal axis of the anchoring element.

8. A method for anchoring object to a remote location by an operator using an anchoring apparatus, the method comprising:

providing an anchoring element of the anchoring apparatus and a connecting element of the anchoring apparatus, the anchoring element and the connecting element adapted to be engaged with each other;

threading a flexible pulling means through a pulling means hole in connecting element and securing a shorter end of the puling element from being pulled out of the hole;

threading the longer end of the flexible pulling means through a pulling path in the anchoring element;

lifting the anchoring element to an anchoring location and affixing it there, while ensuring that the flexible pulling means passes through the pulling path and reaches the operator;

attaching the object to the connecting element;

pulling the flexible pulling element thereby bringing the connecting element towards the anchoring element; and

continuing pulling the flexible pulling means to force the connecting element to pass through an opening in the anchoring element thereby safely locking the connecting element in the anchoring element .

9. The method of claim 8 wherein the flexible pulling means is one of a rope, a cable and a chain.