Take-down and control device

• US 5,893,799 A
• Filed: 05/21/1998
• Issued: 04/13/1999
• Est. Priority Date: 05/21/1998
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Charles F. Studley Jr, Emory E. Cross
• Original Assignee: Charles F. Studley Jr
• Inventors: Cross, Eugene Emery, Studley, Charles Frederick Jr.
• Primary Examiner(s): Pierce, William M.
• Application Number:
  US09/083,691
• Time in Patent Office: 327 Days
• Field of Search: 463/47.2, 463/47.4, 463/47.7, 294/9, 294/10, 294/11, 294/15, 294/19.1, 294/19.3, 294/22, 294/23, 294/34, 119/801, 119/806, 119/807, 119/808
• US Class Current: 463/47.2
• CPC Class Codes: F41B 15/00 Weapons not otherwise provided for , e.g. nunchakus, throwing knives

Abstract

The invention is directed to a take-down and control device intended to be used by police officers when violent subjects need to be controlled before being arrested. The device consists of an elongated rod which slides in a tube. The rod at one of its ends has a hook that can be hooked around a subject'"'"'s leg while the tube on its end that is close to the hook on the rod has an upstanding and curved plate having a general plane which is 90° offset from the plane of the hook. After the hook is hooked around a subject'"'"'s leg, the tube will be slid down on the rod until the curved plate engages the subject'"'"'s leg at a point on the leg which is opposite of the point on the leg where the hook has been engaged. A ratchet mechanism on the tube keeps the tube and rod in a locked position. A T-handle on the other end of the rod allows the officer to twist the device in various directions until the subject loses his balance and is thereby taken down and can be controlled. The device is of a sufficient length to always keep the officer at a safe distance from the subject.

Claims

1. A take-down and control device for use by an officer to take down and control a subject about to be arrested comprising a shaped tube having a complimentarily shaped rod sliding therein, said tube having at one end thereof an upstanding and curved plate having a general plane and further having an upstanding handle placed proximal the other end of said tube which extends in the same direction as the general plane of said plate, said rod sliding within said tube having a rigid hook at an end which is adjacent to the end of said tube having said plate thereon, a plane of said hook being offset by 90°

from the general plane of said plate, a ratchet mechanism on said tube allowing said rod to move in one direction but preventing the rod from movement in the other direction relative to said tube.

2. The take-down and control device of claim 1, wherein said ratchet mechanism includes a single pawl having a hook nose at one end and means for biasing said hook nose into engagement with ratchet teeth on said rod through an aperture in said tube.

3. The take-down and control device of claim 1, wherein said ratchet mechanism on said tube is located within finger reach of said handle on said tube.