US3913515A - Snap-hook holder - Google Patents

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US3913515A
US3913515A US409300A US40930073A US3913515A US 3913515 A US3913515 A US 3913515A US 409300 A US409300 A US 409300A US 40930073 A US40930073 A US 40930073A US 3913515 A US3913515 A US 3913515A
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Rolf Edmund Melander
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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 
    • B63B21/00—Tying-up; Shifting, towing, or pushing equipment; Anchoring
    • B63B21/54—Boat-hooks or the like, e.g. hooks detachably mounted to a pole
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F16—ENGINEERING ELEMENTS AND UNITS; GENERAL MEASURES FOR PRODUCING AND MAINTAINING EFFECTIVE FUNCTIONING OF MACHINES OR INSTALLATIONS; THERMAL INSULATION IN GENERAL
    • F16G—BELTS, CABLES, OR ROPES, PREDOMINANTLY USED FOR DRIVING PURPOSES; CHAINS; FITTINGS PREDOMINANTLY USED THEREFOR
    • F16G11/00—Means for fastening cables or ropes to one another or to other objects; Caps or sleeves for fixing on cables or ropes
    • F16G11/04—Means for fastening cables or ropes to one another or to other objects; Caps or sleeves for fixing on cables or ropes with wedging action, e.g. friction clamps
    • F16G11/05—Means for fastening cables or ropes to one another or to other objects; Caps or sleeves for fixing on cables or ropes with wedging action, e.g. friction clamps by using conical plugs insertable between the strands
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F16—ENGINEERING ELEMENTS AND UNITS; GENERAL MEASURES FOR PRODUCING AND MAINTAINING EFFECTIVE FUNCTIONING OF MACHINES OR INSTALLATIONS; THERMAL INSULATION IN GENERAL
    • F16G—BELTS, CABLES, OR ROPES, PREDOMINANTLY USED FOR DRIVING PURPOSES; CHAINS; FITTINGS PREDOMINANTLY USED THEREFOR
    • F16G11/00—Means for fastening cables or ropes to one another or to other objects; Caps or sleeves for fixing on cables or ropes
    • F16G11/14—Devices or coupling-pieces designed for easy formation of adjustable loops, e.g. choker hooks; Hooks or eyes with integral parts designed to facilitate quick attachment to cables or ropes at any point, e.g. by forming loops
    • F16G11/143—Hooks

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  • Snap-hook holder having a handle attached thereto and which has a cavity to receive the snap-hook.
  • the mouth of the cavity is located in an upwardly inclined plane and the holder has a snap-hook engaging member arranged on at least one side thereof.
  • the engaging member is held firmly at one end thereof, and at mm m2 MM mneR uso /m L .t1 0 t am lmm UIFI 11]] 2 8 555 [[1 the other end thereof, has a stud-like member which is arranged to co-act with a corresponding recess in the snap-hook.
  • the present invention relates to a snap-hook holder having a handle attached thereto, and more particularly to a snap-hook holder for use with boat mooring devices.
  • Boat mooring lines and ropes are often provided with attaching members such as snap-hooks, to facilitate and to expedite mooring of the boat to a mooring station.
  • the task of attaching a snap-hook to the boat securing device of the mooring station, such as a mooring ring for example, can be very problematic, however, especially when the mooring station has the form of a buoy.
  • the object of the present invention is to provide a snap-hook holder having a handle attached thereto, thereby affordinga much greater reach for the person securing the snap-hook to the boat securing device and to simplify considerably attachment of the hook to said device.
  • the snap-hook holder of the present invention which is mainly characterized by the fact that the holder has disposed therein a cavity which is arranged to accommodate a base portion of the snaphook and includes at least one spring engagement means for detachably holding the snap-hook in its inserted position in said cavity, the holder being adapted to prevent rotation of the snap-hook in the direction in which external forces applied thereto attempt to turn the same during the attachmentof said snap-hook to a securing device.
  • the just described embodiment of the holder enables a snap-hook inserted therein to be attached to a securing device without risk of the hook being loosened from the holder as said hook is attached to said device.
  • the snap-hook can be removed from the holder by lightly pulling on the holder handle, whereupon the snap-hook is drawn out of the cavity in said handle in a direction generally parallel to the longitudinal direction of the handle.
  • the holder may also be designed to enable the hook to be separated therefrom by turning the handle in a direction opposite to the aforementioned direction in which the snap-hook is locked against rotation.
  • the engagement means is preferably designed to retain the snap-hook by snap in" engagement therewith.
  • the holder has two opposing engagement means arranged to engage the snap-hook on opposite sides thereof.
  • FIG. 1 is a perspective view, partially in section, of a snap-hook holder with a handle attached thereto according to a preferred embodiment of the invention
  • FIG. 2 is a side view on a larger scale and partially in section of the main or head portion of the holder
  • FIG. 3 is another view on a still larger scale of the holder seen obliquely from above in the direction indicated by arrows III-III in FIG. 2.
  • the snap-hook holder shown in the drawing com prises a head or main' portion 1 preferably made of a light-metal by injection moulding or compression moulding techniques, and having attached thereto a tubular handle 2.
  • the handle 2 may have :the form of a light-metal tube and is arranged to be mounted to a peg 3 projecting from the head portion 1, to which peg the handle is fixed by pressing said handle into a peripheral v groove (not shown).
  • the head portion land the handle 2 may both be provided with an outer layer of plastics material.
  • the end of the handle 2 remote from the head portion 1 has fitted thereto a sleeve-like grip member 4, which may be made of rubber for example.
  • the handle 2 is closed at both ends so as to form a buoyant body, thereby ensuring thatit will float should it be dropped in the water during a boat mooring operation for example.
  • The, head portion 1 of the snap-hook has arranged therein a cavity 5, the opening of which is located in an upwardly inclined end surface of the head portion 1.
  • the cavity 5 is arranged to accommodate a base portion of a snap-hook generally indicated by the reference numeral 6 and shown with chain lines in FIGS. 1 and 2.
  • the snap-hook shown in the drawing is of the type sold under the trademark MERX.
  • the snap-hook 6 comprises a curved hooked portion 7 and a latching arm 8 which is pivotally mounted at the base portion of the hooked portion and which is spring biassed in a direction towards the position shown in the drawing, in which position the latching arm engages the tip 9 of the hooked portion, thereby preventing said portion from being unintentionally released when attached to a securing device.
  • the snap-hook 6 also has a locking lever 10 which is pivotally mounted at the base portion of said snap-hook and the free end of which has the form of a ring to which a mooring line can be attached.
  • the locking lever 10 is mounted on a transversely extending pivot pin 11, which projects outwardly slightly on both sides of the snap-hook.
  • the locking lever is also provided with a camming means (not shown) arranged to co-act with the latching arm 8 too permit inward folding of the hook only when the locking arm occupies the position shown in the drawing, said locking lever effectively holding the latching arm 8 in its illustrated latching position as soon as said locking lever is moved from the illustrated position.
  • the locking lever 10 In order to insert the snap-hook 6 into the cavity 5 arranged in the head portion 1, it is necessary to move the locking lever 10 to its inoperative position shown in the drawing.
  • the base portion of the snap-hook When inserting the snap-hook into said cavity, the base portion of the snap-hook is inserted into the cavity longitudinally of two opposing recesses 12 located in the wall of the cavity, said recesses being arranged to accommodate the outwardly projecting end portions of the pivot pin 1 1.
  • the locking lever 10 In the inserted position of the snap-hook, the locking lever 10 will rest against the upper edge 5a of the cavity, while the outwardly projecting portion of the snap-hook 6 on which the latching arm 8 is mounted abuts the lower edge 5b of the cavity 5, whereby the snap-hook rests firmly in the head portion 1.
  • the snap-hook 6 is detachably held in the head portion 1 by means of two engagement means, at least one of which is preferably sprung and each of which comprises an arm 13 which is fixed at one end and which at its other end has a stud-like portion 15 arranged to protrude into the cavity wall through a hole 14 located therein and to engage a hole 16 arranged in the base portion of the snap-hook.
  • the arms 13 of the engagement means may suitably comprise a plastics material having a high wear resistance, and requisite spring tension of the arms may be provided for by means of metal leaf springs '17 secured together with the arms 13 by means of a transversely extending rivet 18.
  • the springs extend along a large portion of the length of the arms 13. As show'n in the drawing, the arms 13'may be sunk into the outer side of the head portion 1, while the leaf springs 17 may be arranged in recesses located in said arms 13.1
  • the snap-hook 6' will be effectively held against forces which occur when forcing the latching arm against the snap-hook securing device and which attempt to rotate the snap-hook during said securing operation.
  • the holder can be released from the snap-hook by lightly pulling the holder handle 2.
  • the holder can also be released from the hook, however, by twisting or swinging the holder relative to the hook around a pivot point adjacent the lower edge b of the cavity 5.
  • the head portion 1 also has an outwardly projecting nose 19, which enables the holder to be used as a boat hook.
  • the invention is not restricted to the described and illustrated embodiment thereof, but can be modified within the scope of the inventive idea.
  • the engagement means can be designed to co-act wiith the edge portions of the snap-hook or to retain said snaphook solely by friction instead of by the "snap-in" engagement means illustrated.
  • a snap-hook holder for connection to one end of an elongated handle and having a cavity for receiving a base portion of a snap-hook therein; at least one engagement means for detachably retaining said base portion within said cavity, to facilitate application of said hook to a distant attaching memberby means of said handle and the holder; the latter further comprising rigid portions forming firm abutments arranged to cooperate with selected portions of said hook to prevent any rotation of the hook in a a direction in which external forces tend to rotate the same when applying it to said attaching member; wherein said at least one engagement means includes snap-in" means for retaining said snap-hook in engagement therewith; and wherein said at least one engagement means includes a spring loaded arm fixed at one end, and which has at its other end a stud arranged to protrude into said cavity.
  • the holder as defined in claim 1 further comprising a head portion to which said handle is attached and having said cavity therein, and a nose-like projection on said head portion, said projection enabling the holder to be used as a boat hook.

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US4793646A (en) * 1987-08-17 1988-12-27 Northeast Marine, Inc. Adjustable interlocking telescopic handle and arm assembly
US4913078A (en) * 1987-08-14 1990-04-03 Howard Haverly Convertible bank anchor and mooring device with locking means for watercraft
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US5190330A (en) * 1992-04-03 1993-03-02 Bill Dunham Tool for connecting a snap-hook to a remote eye
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US4751892A (en) * 1987-06-26 1988-06-21 Daniel Sechel Marine standoff
US4913078A (en) * 1987-08-14 1990-04-03 Howard Haverly Convertible bank anchor and mooring device with locking means for watercraft
US4793646A (en) * 1987-08-17 1988-12-27 Northeast Marine, Inc. Adjustable interlocking telescopic handle and arm assembly
US5215344A (en) * 1989-04-14 1993-06-01 Gerald Augustyniak Winch cable attachment apparatus
US4986207A (en) * 1990-03-30 1991-01-22 Reed Nauticals, Inc. Boat hook device
US5415446A (en) * 1992-02-13 1995-05-16 Rose Systems, Inc. Safety apparatus and method for using the same
US5190330A (en) * 1992-04-03 1993-03-02 Bill Dunham Tool for connecting a snap-hook to a remote eye
US5704668A (en) * 1993-04-13 1998-01-06 Ferrato; Gerard Remote and fast-acting fastening and release device
US5515574A (en) * 1994-09-01 1996-05-14 Sparta Brush Co., Inc. Noncylindrical telescoping handle
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US5967575A (en) * 1998-05-18 1999-10-19 Blake; Albert C. Device for grabbing a hook supported by an object
US6027154A (en) * 1998-09-03 2000-02-22 Ceiling Lift Corporation Remotely removable snap hook
US6193432B1 (en) * 1999-04-09 2001-02-27 William R. Kampfert Hook and unhooking coupling device
US6409240B1 (en) * 2000-09-18 2002-06-25 Don Ferguson Winch hook holder
US20020163213A1 (en) * 2000-09-18 2002-11-07 Ferguson Donald L. Winch hook holder
US6412432B1 (en) 2001-02-02 2002-07-02 Del White Snap hook applicator device
US20050009423A1 (en) * 2003-05-23 2005-01-13 Lion Goodman Line capture system and method
US7029353B2 (en) * 2003-05-23 2006-04-18 Crossline Solutions Line capture system and method
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US20100101059A1 (en) * 2007-02-20 2010-04-29 Seguin Paul Antoine Stick operable hooking device
US8104811B2 (en) * 2007-02-20 2012-01-31 Hydro-Quebec Stick operable hooking device
US20110021094A1 (en) * 2007-12-28 2011-01-27 Brad Cromartie Push pole for a boat
US20090255100A1 (en) * 2008-04-11 2009-10-15 Cadarn Solutions Fastening device
US8398134B1 (en) 2008-11-06 2013-03-19 Quasar Services Universal carabiner holder
AU2008101113B4 (en) * 2008-11-14 2014-05-22 Lindqvist, Deborah Ruth Hoist system
US20120048167A1 (en) * 2009-05-13 2012-03-01 Enrico Teruzzi Mooring device for boats
US9599145B2 (en) * 2015-01-26 2017-03-21 Jason Durfee Magnetic clasp animal leash assembly
US10117421B2 (en) 2015-01-26 2018-11-06 Jason Durfee Magnetic clasp animal leash assembly
US10259371B1 (en) * 2017-12-15 2019-04-16 Lee Ronald Behr Retractable pole with curved magnetic grip for boat trailer hook to attach to boat U-bolt

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