GB2097052A - Releaseable attachment or fastening device - Google Patents

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GB2097052A
GB2097052A GB8112105A GB8112105A GB2097052A GB 2097052 A GB2097052 A GB 2097052A GB 8112105 A GB8112105 A GB 8112105A GB 8112105 A GB8112105 A GB 8112105A GB 2097052 A GB2097052 A GB 2097052A
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    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B61RAILWAYS
    • B61BRAILWAY SYSTEMS; EQUIPMENT THEREFOR NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
    • B61B12/00Component parts, details or accessories not provided for in groups B61B7/00 - B61B11/00
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    • A62LIFE-SAVING; FIRE-FIGHTING
    • A62BDEVICES, APPARATUS OR METHODS FOR LIFE-SAVING
    • A62B35/00Safety belts or body harnesses; Similar equipment for limiting displacement of the human body, especially in case of sudden changes of motion
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    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B66HOISTING; LIFTING; HAULING
    • B66CCRANES; LOAD-ENGAGING ELEMENTS OR DEVICES FOR CRANES, CAPSTANS, WINCHES, OR TACKLES
    • B66C1/00Load-engaging elements or devices attached to lifting or lowering gear of cranes or adapted for connection therewith for transmitting lifting forces to articles or groups of articles
    • B66C1/10Load-engaging elements or devices attached to lifting or lowering gear of cranes or adapted for connection therewith for transmitting lifting forces to articles or groups of articles by mechanical means
    • B66C1/22Rigid members, e.g. L-shaped members, with parts engaging the under surface of the loads; Crane hooks
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The device comprises at least one wheel (11, 12) having a series of equally spaced peripheral recesses (16), and a latch member (13) supported at a peripheral part of the wheel. The latch member and the wheel have cooperating relatively rotatable surface portions (18, 19) permitting the wheel to rotate about its axis relative to the latch member. The latch member has a recessed or generally channel-shaped section (20) in said surface portion thereof which extends outwardly relative to the axis of the wheel. A rope, line or rod-like element (8) extending generally transversely to the plane of the wheel can be positively engaged with the device with such element being received in a recess (16) in the wheel which then rotates relative to the latch member allowing engagement of the element in the recessed or channel- shaped portion (20) thereof. <IMAGE>

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SPECIFICATION Releasable attachment or fastening device This invention relates to a releasable attachment or fastening device which is an adaptation of the type of device described in my British Patent Specification No. 1,582,201. The device has many possible applications, and in particular where in the past hook-type connectors or fastening devices have been used, for example in grappling devices for latching onto fixed wires or ropes, devices for picking up loads e.g. using a crane and various sorts of hook-type fasteners.
According to the invention there is provided a releasable attachment or fastening device comprising at least one rotary wheel formed with several recesses in its periphery, the recesses being evenly spaced around the wheel with adjacent recesses being separated by a projecting part of the wheel; and a latch member supported on the wheel, the latch member and the wheel having co-operating relatively rotatable surface portions which permit the wheel to rotate about its axis relative to the latch member, and the latch member having a recessed or generally channelshaped section in said surface portion thereof, which section extends outwardly of said surface portion of the latch member (with respect to the axis of the wheel), the arrangement being such that, when the device and an elongate element which extends or has a portion extending generally transversely to the plane of the wheel encounter one another, such element can be received in a recess in the wheel which then rotates relative to the latch member allowing the elongate element to engage in said recessed or channel shaped proportion of the latch member.
In devices according to the invention, said surface proportions of the latch member and the wheel may comprise interengaging male and female connecting portions. Preferably such portions comprise arcuate flanges on the latch member which engage in corresponding grooves formed in the, or a respective, wheel to permit rotation of the wheel(s) about its axis relative to the latch member.
In some embodiments according to the invention, a pair of spaced co-axially mounted wheels may be provided with the latch member extending into the space between the wheels to be retained therein, e.g. by the provision of said interengaging male and female connecting portions between the latch member and each wheel. In other embodiments of the invention, a single recessed wheel may be provided, and the latch member may have portions embracing peripheral portions of the aforesaid projecting parts of the wheel with interengaging male and female connecting portions provided therebetween in order to provide said cooperating relatively rotatable surfaces and to retain the latch member on the wheei while allowing relative rotation of the wheel with respect to the latch member.
A rolling member may be rotatably mounted in said recessed or channel-shaped portion of the latch member for engagement with an elongate member received in that portion of the latch member to facilitate movement of the device along the elongate member when the device is engaged therewith.
Embodiments of the invention will now be described by way of example and with reference to the accompanying drawings in which: Figure 1 is a perspective view of an attachment or fastening device embodying the invention; Figure 2 is a front view of a second device embodying the invention: Figure 3 is a front view of a third device embodying the invention: Figure 4 is a perspective view of a third device embodying the invention: Figure 5 is a perspective view of a fifth embodiment of the invention: Figure 6 is a diagrammatic representation of a double shackle arrangement: Figure 7 is a diagrammatic side view of a sixth embodiment and Figure 8 is a similar view of the Figure 7 embodiment showing a different operational position thereof.
Referring to Figure 1, there is shown an attachment device 10 embodying the invention which may be used in the nature of a grapple for securing the end of one line 9 to a fixed line 8.
The device 10 comprises two wheels 11 and 12, a latch member 13, and an attachment member 14. Each wheel 11, 12 has a generally dome-shaped outer surface with a flat inner surface facing the similar surface of the other wheel. Each wheel in this particular embodiment, has seven radial projecting portions 1 5 which define therebetween 7 equi-angularly spaced recesses 1 6. The wheels are rotatably mounted on an axle 1 7 in a spacedapart relationship.
The dome-shaped surfaces 1 3a are formed in this embodiment as relatively flat central area joined by an annular curved section to an annular axially extending outer rim. However, in other possible constructions the aforesaid central area need not necessarily be flat. The shape selected for the wheels will be such as to provide an integrated central area which provides a bulk of material at the location of grooves 1 9 formed in the confronting surfaces of the wheels in order to accommodate loads imposed thereon in use which could otherwise cause fracture at such locations.
The latch member 13, which is positioned between the wheels at a peripheral part thereof, comprises a generally arcuate member having a central channel section 20 providing a recess in the inner peripheral surface of the member 13.
The member 13 also has a pair of axially projecting arcuate flanges 1 8 formed on the portions of the member 1 3 to each side of the central channel section 20 thereof. Such flanges are provided on both sides of the latch member 1 3. The flanges 1 8 engage in correspondingly shaped grooves 19 formed in the inner confronting surfaces of the projecting parts 1 5 of the wheels thereby to locate the latch member in position between the wheels while allowing the wheels to rotate complete revolutions in either direction with respect to the latch member.
The attachment device 10 is also provided with a load-connecting element 14 which extends between the wheels 11, 12 and is pivotally mounted at one end on the axle 17. The element 14 has an eyelet 21 at its lower end, which receives the bight of the wire or rope 9.
In use to engage the attachment device 10 with the fixed wire or rope 8, the device 10 at the end of line 9 is thrown or placed on the far side of the line 8 and then is drawn back towards the line 8 by pulling on the wire or rope 9. As the device 10 moves accross the wire or rope 8, the wire or rope 8 engages in a pair of recesses in the wheels 11 and 12 which then rotate relative to the latch member 13 on further movement of the device accross the line 8 whereby the rope or wire 8 becomes trapped in the enclosed space defined between the projecting parts of the wheel 1 5 on either side of the recess and the latch member 1 3.
On further tension on wire or rope 9, the wire or rope 8 is then brought into alignment with the channel-shaped portion 20 of the latch member and engages therein as shown in Figure 1. In this way, the end of wire or rope 9 is thereby positively attached to the wire or rope 8, while the wire or rope 9 remains under tension. The device 10 can be detached by releasing the tension on wire or rope 9 to disengage the wire or rope 8 from the channel-shaped portion 20 of the latch member 13. The wire or rope 8 is then engaged in recesses in the wheels 11, 12 which can be rotated relative to the latch member 1 3 in order to allow disengagement of the wire or rope 8.
Figure 2 shows a device similar to that shown in Figure 1, but using a modified latch member 30 in which a roller 31 is rotatably mounted on axle 33 at a position towards the closed end of the channel-shaped section 32 of the latch member.
The roller 32 facilitates movement of the device 30 along a line with which the device is engaged.
The construction shown in Figure 2 also has a modified attachment member 34 which includes a ring member 35 which projects to one side of the attachment member 34 for a purpose described below.
Figure 3 shows a further attachment device 40 which comprises a single wheel 41 having 7 equiangularly spaced recesses 42 defined by 7 radially projecting parts 43 of the wheel. Arcuate grooves 44 are provided in both side surfaces of the projecting parts 41 of the wheel, the grooves 44 being located on a common circle centred at the axis of the wheel. The attachment device 42 has a generally U-shaped latch member 45, the limbs of the member 45 are generally channelshaped to embrace tip portions of the projecting parts 41 of the wheel and the side walls of those channel sections are provided with arcuate flanges 46 which engage in the grooves 44 in the opposite side surfaces of the projecting parts 41 in order to allow the wheel to rotate relative to the latch member.The latch member may be constructed in two halves divided along a plane extending through the centre of the thickness of the member 45 the two halves being held together by suitable securing means, e.g. screws.
The device 40 is provided with an attachment member 47 in the form of a yoke, the arms of which embrace the wheel and are pivotally mounted on an axle 48 on which the wheel rotates. The free end of the yoke is provided with an eyelet 49.
The devices shown in Figures 2 and 3 can be used in conjunction with one another, for example for moving loads on a building site. The attachment device 40 shown in Figure 3 can be suspended from a crane in place of a conventional hook-type fastening device. The attachment member 34 of the device shown in Figure 2 can be rigidly secured to a load, for example a receptacle for carrying building materials. The crane can be moved in order to bring the attachment device 40 in the vicinity of the ring 35 on attachment member 34. The attachment device 40 is lowered just beneath the ring 35 and then moved laterally towards the ring and at the same time lifted upwardly so that a portion of the ring engages over one of the limbs of the latch member 45 and in one of the recesses 42 of the wheel.As the device 40 is lifted further the wheel of the device 40 rotates relative to the latch member 45 so that the ring 35 is located in an enclosed space between two adjacent projecting parts 41 of the wheel and the guide member 45, until, after sufficient rotation of the wheel of the device 40 it becomes engaged in the channelshaped recess 50 defined at the base part of the latch member 45. The crane line can be further lifted in order to lift the attachment device 30 and the receptable connected thereto for movement to another required location. AlteWnatively it can be engaged with a suspension line located across the building site by lifting the attachment device 30 towards the line 51 so that the line becomes engaged in a pair of recesses in the wheels 11 and 12 of the device 30. If the device 30 is then lowered to a certain degree the wheels 11 and 1 2 will rotate relative to the latch member of the device 30 whereby the line 51 becomes engaged in the channel-shaped section 32 of the guide member (as shown dotted in Figure 2) with the roller 31 resting on the member 51. The load supported by this attachment device can then be run along the line 51 as required and the attachment device 40 of the crane can be disengaged by lowering the device relative to the ring 35 so that the ring 35 again engages in a recess 42 in the wheel which then rotates relative to the latch member 45 until the attachment device 40 is completely disengaged from the ring 35.The load supported by the attach-ment device shown in Figure 2 can then be run along line 51 to a required location and indeed a network of such lines can be provided for this purpose and may include a mesh support system as described in my British Patent Specification No. 2,049,592.
In order to disengage the load suspended from the line 51 or any other similar line in a support system, the attachment device 40, suspended from the crane, can again be used in order to engage with ring 35 to lift the load attachment device associated therewith upwardly whereby the line 51 disengages from the attachment device by engaging in the recesses in wheels 11 and 12 which then rotate relative to the latch member 30.
Figure 4 shows a further attachment device comprising two spaced wheels 11 and 12 and having a guide member 60 and a latch member 61 each provided with arcuate flanges for engagement in grooves provided in the confronting flat surfaces of the wheels 11, and 12. This attachment device is slidably mounted on a fixed line 62 which extends between the wheels 11 and 12 in sliding engagement with the guide member 60.The bights of further ropes 63, 64 for suspending loads from the line 62 can be readily engaged with the device by engaging them in a pair of recesses in the wheels 11, 12 located at the time being between the guide member 60 and the latch member 61, and then pulling downwardly on such ropes whereby the wheels 11 and 12 rotate relative to the latch member 61 to bring the respective rope bight into alignment with the channel-shaped portion 62 of the latch member 61 in which it then engages.
Detachment of the loads can be carried out simply by relieving the tension on the respective rope and moving the bight thereof upwardly into a pair of recesses in the wheels of 11, 12 and then moving such bight to rotate those wheels with respect to the latch member 61 thereby to disengage the bight from the attachment device.
Figure 5 shows a further embodiment in the form of a device for fastening the ends of, in this case, two strips of webbing. This fastening device 70 comprises a pair of recessed wheels 71, 72 which are located in a spaced apart relation on a common axle. This fastening device also includes two similar latch members 73, 74 which have portions extending into the space between the wheels, such portions being provided with arcuate flanges which engage in corresponding recesses in the projecting parts of the wheel as in the previous embodiments.Each end of the webbing which is provided with an attachment loop member 75, 76, can be readily engaged with a fastening device by engaging one loop member 75, 76 in a pair of recesses in the wheels 71, 72 and moving the loop 75 so that the wheels rotate with respect to the respective latch member 73, 74 until the loop can be engaged in the channelshaped recess in that latch member. With both loops 75, 76 engaged in the recesses in the respective latch member 73, 74 and with both portions of the webbing under tension, the device 70 acts to fasten the ends of the webbings.Each end section of the webbing can be disengaged from the device 70 by releasing the tension on that section of webbing and moving the respective loop member at the end thereof out of the channel in the latch member and into a pair of recesses in the wheel and then moving the loop to rotate the wheels relative to the latch member and so disengaging the loop member from the fastening device 70.
Figures 6 to 8 show a further embodiment of a load-transfer device according to the invention which is used in conjunction with a sheave 80 rotatably mounted at the mast head of a yacht.
The load transfer device 81 comprises a pair of spaced wheels, one wheel 82 being shown in Figures 7 and 8, the wheels having located therebetween a guide member 83 and a latch member 84 in a similar fashion to the embodiment of Figure 4. The load-transfer device 81 is attached to the sheave 80 by a depending link 85. The halyard 86 for raising and lowering the sail is connected to a double-shackle arrangement 87 comprising two U-shaped shackles 88 and 89 pivotally connected by a pin 90 as shown in Figure 6. The luff 91 of a sail extends at its upper end through a further shackle 92 which is interengaged with the shackle 89 of the doubleshackle arrangement 87. The halyard 86 extends around the sheave 80 between the wheels of the load-transfer device 81 and is located therein the guide member 83.When the sail is raised it can be locked at its upper end in the load-transfer device 81 by raising the sail so that the doubleshackle arrangement 87 engages in the load transfer device 81 with the shackles 88 and 89 and the pin 90 of such arrangement being received in the recesses in the wheels of the device 81. The halyard 86 can now be slackened off while the luff 91 is still under tension so that as the wheels 82 rotate the pin 90 of the doubleshackle arrangement engages the latch member 84 and on further rotation of the wheels 82 under the tension of the luff 91 finally engages in the recessed portion 92 of the latch member 84 whereby the sail is then suspended from the load transfer device 81 as shown in figure 8.In this position the tension in the halyard 86 can be removed whereby the compression force on the mast is then reduced by one half as compared with a system in which the sail remains suspended by tension maintained in the halyard.
In order to disengage the double-shackle arrangement from its "locked" position as shown in Figure 8, it is necessary to apply tension on the halyard 86 to lift the double-shackle arrangement to the position shown in Figure 7 and then to release the tension in the luff 91 as the halyard 86 is payed out in a direction to lower the sail.
The components of the above described attachment or fastening devices according to the invention may be made of any suitable material, for example a metal, such as stainless steel or for lighter uses a plastic material may be used.
Claims (filed 1 5/3/82) 1. A releasable attachment or fastening device comprising at least one rotary wheel formed with
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**WARNING** start of CLMS field may overlap end of DESC **. may include a mesh support system as described in my British Patent Specification No. 2,049,592. In order to disengage the load suspended from the line 51 or any other similar line in a support system, the attachment device 40, suspended from the crane, can again be used in order to engage with ring 35 to lift the load attachment device associated therewith upwardly whereby the line 51 disengages from the attachment device by engaging in the recesses in wheels 11 and 12 which then rotate relative to the latch member 30. Figure 4 shows a further attachment device comprising two spaced wheels 11 and 12 and having a guide member 60 and a latch member 61 each provided with arcuate flanges for engagement in grooves provided in the confronting flat surfaces of the wheels 11, and 12. This attachment device is slidably mounted on a fixed line 62 which extends between the wheels 11 and 12 in sliding engagement with the guide member 60.The bights of further ropes 63, 64 for suspending loads from the line 62 can be readily engaged with the device by engaging them in a pair of recesses in the wheels 11, 12 located at the time being between the guide member 60 and the latch member 61, and then pulling downwardly on such ropes whereby the wheels 11 and 12 rotate relative to the latch member 61 to bring the respective rope bight into alignment with the channel-shaped portion 62 of the latch member 61 in which it then engages. Detachment of the loads can be carried out simply by relieving the tension on the respective rope and moving the bight thereof upwardly into a pair of recesses in the wheels of 11, 12 and then moving such bight to rotate those wheels with respect to the latch member 61 thereby to disengage the bight from the attachment device. Figure 5 shows a further embodiment in the form of a device for fastening the ends of, in this case, two strips of webbing. This fastening device 70 comprises a pair of recessed wheels 71, 72 which are located in a spaced apart relation on a common axle. This fastening device also includes two similar latch members 73, 74 which have portions extending into the space between the wheels, such portions being provided with arcuate flanges which engage in corresponding recesses in the projecting parts of the wheel as in the previous embodiments.Each end of the webbing which is provided with an attachment loop member 75, 76, can be readily engaged with a fastening device by engaging one loop member 75, 76 in a pair of recesses in the wheels 71, 72 and moving the loop 75 so that the wheels rotate with respect to the respective latch member 73, 74 until the loop can be engaged in the channelshaped recess in that latch member. With both loops 75, 76 engaged in the recesses in the respective latch member 73, 74 and with both portions of the webbing under tension, the device 70 acts to fasten the ends of the webbings.Each end section of the webbing can be disengaged from the device 70 by releasing the tension on that section of webbing and moving the respective loop member at the end thereof out of the channel in the latch member and into a pair of recesses in the wheel and then moving the loop to rotate the wheels relative to the latch member and so disengaging the loop member from the fastening device 70. Figures 6 to 8 show a further embodiment of a load-transfer device according to the invention which is used in conjunction with a sheave 80 rotatably mounted at the mast head of a yacht. The load transfer device 81 comprises a pair of spaced wheels, one wheel 82 being shown in Figures 7 and 8, the wheels having located therebetween a guide member 83 and a latch member 84 in a similar fashion to the embodiment of Figure 4. The load-transfer device 81 is attached to the sheave 80 by a depending link 85. The halyard 86 for raising and lowering the sail is connected to a double-shackle arrangement 87 comprising two U-shaped shackles 88 and 89 pivotally connected by a pin 90 as shown in Figure 6. The luff 91 of a sail extends at its upper end through a further shackle 92 which is interengaged with the shackle 89 of the doubleshackle arrangement 87. The halyard 86 extends around the sheave 80 between the wheels of the load-transfer device 81 and is located therein the guide member 83.When the sail is raised it can be locked at its upper end in the load-transfer device 81 by raising the sail so that the doubleshackle arrangement 87 engages in the load transfer device 81 with the shackles 88 and 89 and the pin 90 of such arrangement being received in the recesses in the wheels of the device 81. The halyard 86 can now be slackened off while the luff 91 is still under tension so that as the wheels 82 rotate the pin 90 of the doubleshackle arrangement engages the latch member 84 and on further rotation of the wheels 82 under the tension of the luff 91 finally engages in the recessed portion 92 of the latch member 84 whereby the sail is then suspended from the load transfer device 81 as shown in figure 8.In this position the tension in the halyard 86 can be removed whereby the compression force on the mast is then reduced by one half as compared with a system in which the sail remains suspended by tension maintained in the halyard. In order to disengage the double-shackle arrangement from its "locked" position as shown in Figure 8, it is necessary to apply tension on the halyard 86 to lift the double-shackle arrangement to the position shown in Figure 7 and then to release the tension in the luff 91 as the halyard 86 is payed out in a direction to lower the sail. The components of the above described attachment or fastening devices according to the invention may be made of any suitable material, for example a metal, such as stainless steel or for lighter uses a plastic material may be used. Claims (filed 1 5/3/82)
1. A releasable attachment or fastening device comprising at least one rotary wheel formed with
several recesses in its periphery, the recesses being evenly spaced around the wheel with adjacent recesses being separated by a projecting part of the wheel; and a latch member supported on the wheel, the latch member and the wheel having cooperating relatively rotatable surface portions which permit the wheel to rotate about is axis relative to the latch member, and the latch member having a recessed or generally channelshaped section in said surface portion thereof, which. section extends outwardly of said surface portion of the latch member (with respect to the axis of the wheel), the arrangement being such that when the device and an elongate element which extends or has a portion extending generally transversely to the plane of the wheel encounter one another, such element can be received in a recess in the wheel which then rotates relative to the latch member allowing the elongate element to engage in said recessed or channel shaped portion of the latch member.
2. A device according to Claim 1, wherein said surface portions of the latch member and the wheel comprise inter-engaging male and female connecting portions.
3. A device according to Claim 2, wherein said surface portions comprise arcuate flanges on the latch member engaging in corresponding grooves formed in said projecting parts of said wheel to permit rotation of the wheel about its axis relative to the latch member.
4. A device according to any of Claims 1 to 3, wherein a single recessed wheel is provided.
5. A device according to Claim 4 wherein the latch member has portions straddling peripheral portions of the aforesaid projecting parts of the wheel with interengaging male and female connecting portions provided therebetween in order to provide said cooperating relatively rotatable surfaces and to retain the latch member on the wheel whilst allowing relative rotation of the wheel with respect to the latch member.
6. A device according to Claim 5 wherein said latch member is a generally U-shaped element having recesses or channels in the inner surfaces of the limbs of the U-shaped latch member to receive tip portions of said projecting parts of the wheel with said interengaging connecting portions being formed on said latch member within said recesses or channels and on said tip portions of the projecting parts of the wheel.
7. A device according to Claim 5 or Claim 6, including a yoke attachment member having limbs embracing the wheel with the free ends of the limbs being mounted on an axle of the wheel.
8. A device according to any of Claims 1 to 3, wherein a pair of spaced co-axially mounted wheels are provided with the latch member extending into the space between the wheels to be retained therein whilst permitting rotation of the wheels relative to the latch member.
9. A device according to Claim 8 including a connection element for attaching a load to the device, which connection element extends into the space between the two wheels, and is mounted at or adjacent one end of the connection element on a common axle of the two wheels.
10. A device according to Claim 9 wherein the connection element has a generally hoop-shaped element projecting therefrom to facilitate engagement of the device by lifting means.
1 A device according to Claim 8 further including a guide member for sliding contact with an elongate member extending in use between the two wheels, the guide member having at least a portion located in the space between the wheels, and the wheels and the guide member having relatively rotatable surface portions which permit the wheels to rotate relative to the guide member whilst locating the guide member relative to the wheels so as to permit transverse support elements for said elongate member to pass through the device in respective recesses in said wheels.
12. A device according to Claim 8 including a pair of latch members as aforesaid to provide a fastening means for end portions of lines or straps under tension in use.
13. A device according to Claim 11 including an arm connected at one end to an axle on which the wheels are mounted and at the other to a rotary sheave mounted in use at a mast head, and further including an elongate member for raising and lowering a sail, which member extends around the sheave and between said two wheels and has fixed to one end thereof means for connection to the luff of a sail, which means includes a pair of U-shaped shackle members pivotally connected at the free ends of the limbs of the U-shaped members by a pin, the arrangement being such that the shackle members can be engaged with the wheels with said pin and the base portions of each U-shaped member engaged in respective pairs of recesses in the wheels so that when ftensionis released in the elongate member, after raising of the sail, the wheels rotate under the weight of the sail and said pin engages an edge portion of said latch member whereby on further rotation of the wheels it becomes engaged in said recessed or generally channel-shaped section of the latch member thereby to support the sail in its raised position.
14. A device according to any preceding claim, wherein a rolling member is rotatably mounted in said recesses or channel-shaped portion of the latch member for engagement with an elongate member received in that portion of the latch member to facilitate movement of the device along an elongate member with which the device is engaged in use.
1 5. A releasable attachment or fastening device substantially as hereinbefore described with reference to, and as illustrated in, any one of Figures 1 to 5, or Figures 6 to 8, of the accompanying drawings.
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