CLAW HOOK FOR CHAINS

• US 3,729,926 A
• Filed: 05/25/1971
• Issued: 05/01/1973
• Est. Priority Date: 05/25/1971
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Ervin Buske
• Original Assignee: Ervin Buske
• Inventors: Buske, Ervin
• Primary Examiner(s): Lanham, Charles W.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Crosby, Gene P.
• Application Number:
  US05/146,643
• Time in Patent Office: 707 Days
• Field of Search: 59/93,78,86,90 294/82R
• US Class Current: 59/93
• CPC Class Codes: F16G 17/00 Hooks as integral parts of chains hooks for cranes B66C1/34; hooks in general F16B45/00

Abstract

Two claws spaced to provide a slot therebetween extend from a flat body having an enlarged aperture with a slot extending from one side. Chain links can be engaged in either the claw slot or the body slot. An attachment fitting in the body slot has a post engagable into an aperture in a device to which the attachment may be anchored.

Claims

1. A claw hook comprising A GENERALLY FLAT BODY HAVING A PAIR OF SPACED HOOKED CLAWS CURLED UPWARDLY AND OUTWARDLY FROM AND THENCE BACKWARDLY OVER ONE END OF SAID BODY, SAID CLAWS BEING SPACED FROM ONE ANOTHER TO PROVIDE THEREBETWEEN A SLOT WHICH HAS A CLOSED END PORTION EXTENDING INTO SAID BODY TOWARDS THE OTHER END THEREOF AT THE BASE OF SAID CLAWS AND WHICH IS ADAPTED TO RECEIVE THEREIN A CHAIN LINK WHOSE WIDTH IS ARRANGED IN THE DIRECTION OF THE SLOT, SAID BODY ALSO HAVING THERETHROUGH A GENERALLY CIRCULAR APERTURE LARGER IN DIAMETER THAN THE WIDTH OF THE SLOT BETWEEN THE CLAWS AND A SLOT EXTENDING FROM ONE SIDE OF SAID APERTURE, THE SLOT IN SAID BODY BEING OF ABOUT THE SAME WIDTH ACROSS AS THE SLOT BETWEEN THE CLAWS AND ADAPTED TO RECEIVE THEREIN A CHAIN LINK WHOSE WIDTH IS ARRANGED IN THE DIRECTION OF THE SLOT, AND HAVING A CLOSED END PORTION DISPOSED IN THE SAME DIRECTION AS THE CLOSED END PORTION OF SAID SLOT BETWEEN THE CLAWS, AND OPPOSED BEVELED EDGES FOR ACCOMMODATING ENDS OF LINKS ADJACENT TO THE LINK RECEIVED IN THE SLOT.