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US3576297A
US3576297A US851999A US3576297DA US3576297A US 3576297 A US3576297 A US 3576297A US 851999 A US851999 A US 851999A US 3576297D A US3576297D A US 3576297DA US 3576297 A US3576297 A US 3576297A
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
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    • B65H75/02—Cores, formers, supports, or holders for coiled, wound, or folded material, e.g. reels, spindles, bobbins, cop tubes, cans, mandrels or chucks
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B63—SHIPS OR OTHER WATERBORNE VESSELS; RELATED EQUIPMENT
    • B63B—SHIPS OR OTHER WATERBORNE VESSELS; EQUIPMENT FOR SHIPPING 
    • B63B34/00—Vessels specially adapted for water sports or leisure; Body-supporting devices specially adapted for water sports or leisure
    • B63B34/60—Arrangements for towing, e.g. for use with water-skis or wakeboards
    • B63B34/67—Connection means on the towing watercraft, e.g. pylons, side poles or winches
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H75/00—Storing webs, tapes, or filamentary material, e.g. on reels
    • B65H75/02—Cores, formers, supports, or holders for coiled, wound, or folded material, e.g. reels, spindles, bobbins, cop tubes, cans, mandrels or chucks
    • B65H75/34—Cores, formers, supports, or holders for coiled, wound, or folded material, e.g. reels, spindles, bobbins, cop tubes, cans, mandrels or chucks specially adapted or mounted for storing and repeatedly paying-out and re-storing lengths of material provided for particular purposes, e.g. anchored hoses, power cables
    • B65H75/38—Cores, formers, supports, or holders for coiled, wound, or folded material, e.g. reels, spindles, bobbins, cop tubes, cans, mandrels or chucks specially adapted or mounted for storing and repeatedly paying-out and re-storing lengths of material provided for particular purposes, e.g. anchored hoses, power cables involving the use of a core or former internal to, and supporting, a stored package of material
    • B65H75/44—Constructional details
    • B65H75/4473—Constructional details without arrangements or adaptations for rotating the core or former
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B65—CONVEYING; PACKING; STORING; HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL
    • B65H—HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL, e.g. SHEETS, WEBS, CABLES
    • B65H2701/00—Handled material; Storage means
    • B65H2701/30—Handled filamentary material
    • B65H2701/35—Ropes, lines
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
    • Y10S—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10S242/00—Winding, tensioning, or guiding
    • Y10S242/904—Water ski reel

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  • the present invention is a generally rectangular, buoyant line or rope holder having a body with large and small side-by-side yokes for the winding about the smaller yoke of the anchoring end of a rope and about the larger yoke the major portion of the rope adapted to be readily unwound and released to allow the proper length to be used as desired as, for example, behind a boat by a skier, or attached to an anchor, or in another manner.
  • ROPE HOLDER BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1.
  • Field of the Invention The invention is in the field of holders or carriers for lines, ropes, or the like about which holders or carriers, such lines or ropes are adapted to be wound and unwound to store and use the same.
  • the invention is a generally rectangular, buoyant body with an opening for receiving the fingers and gripping the same centrally of its length and near one side edge and such body having parallel yokes for the winding of water ski, anchor, and other ropes thereupon.
  • FIG. 1 is a side elevation of the invention with the line or rope wound thereon;
  • FIG. 2 a similar view from the opposite side
  • FIG. 3 a perspective illustrating the use of the invention
  • FIG. 4 a view of the holder itself
  • FIG. 5 an edge elevation
  • the line or rope carrier or holder of the present invention comprises a generally rectangular, buoyant body of plastic, such as polyethylene or other substance and preferably having slightly concave side edges 11 and 12.
  • a finger grip portion 13 comprising aperture means for receiving the fingers is provided with the end of said body having oppositely disposed opposed large and small concave yoke portions or indentations 14 and 15.
  • the opposed concavities or indentations 14 provide a larger yoke for receiving maximum windings of a rope l6, and the opposed concavities or indentations 15 form a smaller yoke for fewer windings of such rope.
  • the anchoring end of the rope is wound about the indentations 15 which form the smaller yoke, and the major portion of the rope is wound about the larger indentations 14 which form the larger yoke.
  • a predetermined length of the rope having a hook 17 at its end is wound about the smaller yoke with the hook being the last thing placed on the holder in such area.
  • the remainder of the rope is wound about the indentations 14 which form the larger yoke with the handle or bridle portion 18 being the last part placed upon the holder.
  • the indentations 15 are relatively shallow and have a relatively gentle slope at the sides in order to permit free unwinding of the rope.
  • the smaller winding of the rope is unwound from the holder and the hook is attached to an eye at the stern of the boat wnereupon the bridle is given to the water skier and the holder is held by either the operator or someone on the boat and alternately is tipped or oscillated in the place of the body to release or play out the rope while the boat is operated slowly until the water skier is at the proper distance away and with the rope kept sufficiently taut to prevent the propeller being fouled. After the rope has been removed entirely from the holder or let out,
  • the latter is placed in the boat and the operator of the boat increases the speed to pull the skier out of the water so that the skies will be on the surface of the water.
  • the rope After the rope is used it may be readily rewound as indicated with the short or anchoring portion of the smaller yoke and the larger portion on the larger yoke.
  • the holder of the present invention is susceptible of use by having a short end of the rope attached to the front of a boat and the long end attached to an anchor.
  • the holder also is susceptible of use with and can be stored with a sea anchor when the latter is collapsed.
  • the short end of the rope can be passed through the handle-forming recess of the holder so that after the short end is attached to the bow of a boat it is only necessary to throw the sea anchor overboard and the rope will automatically unwind from the holder with the holder remaining on the rope due to the fact that the rope passes through the opening for the fingers of the hand.
  • a simple, practical, inexpensive, buoyant, time-saving holder is provided of great convenience when used for the purpose intended or as a water ski rope holder, an anchor rope holder, or other rope-storing device, and such holder will provide for the neat storage of the rope and improve safety when used regardless of whether in lengths of 75 feet to 100 feet or longer or shorter.
  • the rope may be of polyethylene or other relatively strong material and with the handle capable of withstanding a couple of hundred pounds or other desired pressure.
  • the use of the holder will avoid twisting or tangling of the rope and the use also permits the playing out of the rope to be done by water skiers so that .multiple holders can be employed and water skiers accommodated with the water skiers playing out the rope where the holder is employed by more than one water skier, and the holder of the present invention provides for the neat stacking or storage, out of the way, on the rope-wound holder, in a boat, or elsewhere and the rope can be released without subjecting the hands to rope burn.
  • a holder for the storing and quick application and release of a rope to facilitate the use of the same by a water skier or as an .anchor or other use said holder comprising a generally rectangular buoyant body having larger and smaller indentations at each end with the larger indentations at opposite ends in opposed relation and the smaller indentations at opposite ends likewise in opposed relation, and with the larger indentations and the smaller indentations forming sideby-side generally parallel larger and smaller yokes of a character to receive about the smaller yoke the anchoring portion of a rope and about the larger yoke the primary-use portion of the rope so that first the anchoring portion of the rope may be unwound and thereafter the remaining portion of the rope unwound, the larger indentations being of relatively shallow depth and having a slope at the sides which pennits free unwinding of the rope, said body having aperture means for receiving the users fingers adjacent one edge and intermediate said smaller indentations to facilitate the gripping and holding of the body so that the
  • said aperture means is an elongated opening parallel to the side edge of the body to receive the fingers of the hand.

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The present invention is a generally rectangular, buoyant line or rope holder having a body with large and small side-by-side yokes for the winding about the smaller yoke of the anchoring end of a rope and about the larger yoke the major portion of the rope adapted to be readily unwound and released to allow the proper length to be used as desired as, for example, behind a boat by a skier, or attached to an anchor, or in another manner.

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United States Patent 72) Inventor John M. Cowart, Jr
2408 N. Hooner St, Albany, Ga. 31701 [21 Appl. No. 851,999
[22] Filed Aug. 21, 1969 [45] Patented Apr. 27, 1971 [54] ROPE HOLDER 4 Claims, 5 Drawing Figs.
[52] US. Cl. 242/85.l [51] Int. (I B65h 75/36 [50] Field ofSearch 242/851,
[56] References Cited UNITED STATES PATENTS 1,035,825 8/1912 Hesser 242/85.1
1,901,050 3/1933 Voorhees FOREIGN PATENTS 26,836 1903 Great Britain Primary Examiner-George F. Mautz Assistant Examiner-Gregory A. Walters AttorneysA. Yates Dowell and A. Yates Dowell, Jr
ABSTRACT: The present invention is a generally rectangular, buoyant line or rope holder having a body with large and small side-by-side yokes for the winding about the smaller yoke of the anchoring end of a rope and about the larger yoke the major portion of the rope adapted to be readily unwound and released to allow the proper length to be used as desired as, for example, behind a boat by a skier, or attached to an anchor, or in another manner.
ROPE HOLDER BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The invention is in the field of holders or carriers for lines, ropes, or the like about which holders or carriers, such lines or ropes are adapted to be wound and unwound to store and use the same.
2. Description of the Prior Art Line and rope holders or carriers of various kinds have been used for clothes lines, anchor lines, fish lines, and the like. Usually these have only one yoke, were unwieldy and could not be used with facility.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION AND OBJECTS The invention is a generally rectangular, buoyant body with an opening for receiving the fingers and gripping the same centrally of its length and near one side edge and such body having parallel yokes for the winding of water ski, anchor, and other ropes thereupon.
It is an object of the invention to provide a simple, inexpensive holder for the quick, easy, neat winding thereon and releasing of the rope without the rope burning the hands due to rapid slipping therethrough when the rope is used for water skiing, when connected to an anchor, or the like, so that it will not become tangled or foul the propeller of the boat with which used.
It is a further object of the invention to provide a holder of buoyant lightweight material such as molded plastic, and having parallel winding areas or yokes one smaller for receiving fewer windings of the rope and the other larger forreceiving the major windings of the rope thereabout, and each of which yokes has oppositely disposed opposed concavities so that the rope can be readily wound around and dislodged from the same.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWING FIG. 1 is a side elevation of the invention with the line or rope wound thereon;
FIG. 2, a similar view from the opposite side;
Fig. 3, a perspective illustrating the use of the invention;
FIG. 4, a view of the holder itself, and
FIG. 5, an edge elevation.
With continued reference to the drawing, the line or rope carrier or holder of the present invention comprises a generally rectangular, buoyant body of plastic, such as polyethylene or other substance and preferably having slightly concave side edges 11 and 12. A finger grip portion 13 comprising aperture means for receiving the fingers is provided with the end of said body having oppositely disposed opposed large and small concave yoke portions or indentations 14 and 15. The opposed concavities or indentations 14 provide a larger yoke for receiving maximum windings of a rope l6, and the opposed concavities or indentations 15 form a smaller yoke for fewer windings of such rope.
In the use of the device, the anchoring end of the rope is wound about the indentations 15 which form the smaller yoke, and the major portion of the rope is wound about the larger indentations 14 which form the larger yoke. It will be understood that a predetermined length of the rope having a hook 17 at its end is wound about the smaller yoke with the hook being the last thing placed on the holder in such area. Thereafter the remainder of the rope is wound about the indentations 14 which form the larger yoke with the handle or bridle portion 18 being the last part placed upon the holder. In order that the rope may rapidly be released from the larger yoke, as indicated in FIG. 3, the indentations 15 are relatively shallow and have a relatively gentle slope at the sides in order to permit free unwinding of the rope.
When the device is used by a water skier, the smaller winding of the rope is unwound from the holder and the hook is attached to an eye at the stern of the boat wnereupon the bridle is given to the water skier and the holder is held by either the operator or someone on the boat and alternately is tipped or oscillated in the place of the body to release or play out the rope while the boat is operated slowly until the water skier is at the proper distance away and with the rope kept sufficiently taut to prevent the propeller being fouled. After the rope has been removed entirely from the holder or let out,
the latter is placed in the boat and the operator of the boat increases the speed to pull the skier out of the water so that the skies will be on the surface of the water. After the rope is used it may be readily rewound as indicated with the short or anchoring portion of the smaller yoke and the larger portion on the larger yoke.
The holder of the present invention is susceptible of use by having a short end of the rope attached to the front of a boat and the long end attached to an anchor. The holder also is susceptible of use with and can be stored with a sea anchor when the latter is collapsed. In this use the short end of the rope can be passed through the handle-forming recess of the holder so that after the short end is attached to the bow of a boat it is only necessary to throw the sea anchor overboard and the rope will automatically unwind from the holder with the holder remaining on the rope due to the fact that the rope passes through the opening for the fingers of the hand.
It will be apparent from the foregoing that a simple, practical, inexpensive, buoyant, time-saving holder is provided of great convenience when used for the purpose intended or as a water ski rope holder, an anchor rope holder, or other rope-storing device, and such holder will provide for the neat storage of the rope and improve safety when used regardless of whether in lengths of 75 feet to 100 feet or longer or shorter. The rope may be of polyethylene or other relatively strong material and with the handle capable of withstanding a couple of hundred pounds or other desired pressure. It will also be apparent that the use of the holder will avoid twisting or tangling of the rope and the use also permits the playing out of the rope to be done by water skiers so that .multiple holders can be employed and water skiers accommodated with the water skiers playing out the rope where the holder is employed by more than one water skier, and the holder of the present invention provides for the neat stacking or storage, out of the way, on the rope-wound holder, in a boat, or elsewhere and the rope can be released without subjecting the hands to rope burn.
I claim:
1. A holder for the storing and quick application and release of a rope to facilitate the use of the same by a water skier or as an .anchor or other use, said holder comprising a generally rectangular buoyant body having larger and smaller indentations at each end with the larger indentations at opposite ends in opposed relation and the smaller indentations at opposite ends likewise in opposed relation, and with the larger indentations and the smaller indentations forming sideby-side generally parallel larger and smaller yokes of a character to receive about the smaller yoke the anchoring portion of a rope and about the larger yoke the primary-use portion of the rope so that first the anchoring portion of the rope may be unwound and thereafter the remaining portion of the rope unwound, the larger indentations being of relatively shallow depth and having a slope at the sides which pennits free unwinding of the rope, said body having aperture means for receiving the users fingers adjacent one edge and intermediate said smaller indentations to facilitate the gripping and holding of the body so that the holder can be alternatively oscillated in the plane of the body to release the primary-use portion of the rope.
2. The structure of claim 1 in which said aperture means is an elongated opening parallel to the side edge of the body to receive the fingers of the hand.
3. The structure of claim 1 in which the body is formed of polyethylene plastic.
4. The structure of claim I and a rope having an attaching fastener at one end and attached to a gripping handle at the other.

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1. A holder for the storing and quick application and release of a rope to facilitate the use of the same by a water skier or as an anchor or other use, said holder comprising a generally rectangular buoyant body having larger and smaller indentations at each end with the larger indentations at opposite ends in opposed relation and the smaller indentations at opposite ends likewise in opposed relation, and with the larger indentations and the smaller indentations forming side-by-side generally parallel larger and smaller yokes of a character to receive about the smaller yoke the anchoring portion of a rope and about the larger yoke the primary-use portion of the rope so that first the anchoring portion of the rope may be unwound and thereafter the remaining portion of the rope unwound, the larger indentations beIng of relatively shallow depth and having a slope at the sides which permits free unwinding of the rope, said body having aperture means for receiving the user''s fingers adjacent one edge and intermediate said smaller indentations to facilitate the gripping and holding of the body so that the holder can be alternatively oscillated in the plane of the body to release the primary-use portion of the rope.
2. The structure of claim 1 in which said aperture means is an elongated opening parallel to the side edge of the body to receive the fingers of the hand.
3. The structure of claim 1 in which the body is formed of polyethylene plastic.
4. The structure of claim 1 and a rope having an attaching fastener at one end and attached to a gripping handle at the other.
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