Helicopter rescue hook

• US 3,194,598 A
• Filed: 09/18/1963
• Issued: 07/13/1965
• Est. Priority Date: 09/18/1963
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Martin N. Goldfuss
• Original Assignee: Martin N. Goldfuss
• Inventors: Goldfuss, Martin N.
• Application Number:
  US04/309,903
• Time in Patent Office: 664 Days
• US Class Current: 294/82.19
• CPC Class Codes: B64D 1/22 Taking-up articles from earth's surface
• CPC Class Codes: B66C 1/36 with means, e.g. spring-biased detents, for preventing inadvertent disengagement of loads
• CPC Class Codes: Y10T 24/45356 Coiled about pivotal axis of gate

Claims

1. A MULTIPLE LOAD HANDLING DEVICE COMPRISING:

(A) A MAIN HOOK HAVING A SHANK AND A BILL WITH A THROAT THEREBETWEEN;

(B) A BAIL SWIVELLY MOUNTED ON SAID SHANK;

(C) MEANS SECURING SAID BAIL TO SAID SHANK;

(D) AN ANTI-FRICTION ELEMENT INTERPOSED BETWEEN BAIL AND SAID MEANS SECURING THEREOF;

(E) A LATCH PIVOTALLY SECURED TO SAID SHANK FOR MOVEMENT BETWEEN OPEN AND CLOSED POSITIONS HAVING SIDES AND AN END WITH THE LOWER PORTION REMOVED, SAID SHANK BEING DISPOSED BETWEEN SAID SIDES IN THE OPEN AND CLOSED POSITIONS OF SAID LATCH AND SAID BILL EXTENDING THROUGH SAID SLOT AND BETWEEN SAID SIDES WHEN SAID LATCH IS IN CLOSED POSITION;

(F) RESILIENT MEANS URGING SAID LATCH TO A CLOSED POSITION;

(G) A SECONDARY HOOK HAVING A BILL AND A SHANK;

(H) SAID MAIN AND SECONDARY HOOKS BEING INTEGRALLY CONNECTED AT THE BACKS OF THEIR SHANKS;

(I) LATCH MEANS PIVOTALLY SECURED TO THE SHANK OF SAID SECONDARY HOOK FOR MOVEMENT BETWEEN OPEN AND CLOSED POSITIONS;

AND (J) A RING MEMBER INTEGRAL WITH SAID HOOKS DISPOSED BETWEEN THE HEELS OF THEIR SHANKS.