Classifications

• • 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
  • B65H75/4418—Arrangements for stopping winding or unwinding; Arrangements for releasing the stop means
  • B65H75/4428—Arrangements for stopping winding or unwinding; Arrangements for releasing the stop means acting on the reel or on a reel blocking mechanism
  • B65H75/4431—Manual stop or release button
• • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
  • A01—AGRICULTURE; FORESTRY; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; HUNTING; TRAPPING; FISHING
  • A01K—ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; AVICULTURE; APICULTURE; PISCICULTURE; FISHING; REARING OR BREEDING ANIMALS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; NEW BREEDS OF ANIMALS
  • A01K27/00—Leads or collars, e.g. for dogs
  • A01K27/003—Leads, leashes
  • A01K27/004—Retractable leashes
• • 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

Definitions

• An actuator arm may also connectably attach to the handle assembly.
• the actuator arm includes a proximal end and a distal end.
• the proximal end of the actuator arm may engage the actuator, and the distal end may engage the stop disk plate.
• the lever spring may move to the second position, and the actuator may engage the proximal end of the actuator arm.
• the distal end may then engage the stop disk plate, and the plunger springs may move into the second position.
• a catch may optionally engage the proximal end of the actuator arm, holding the proximal end of the actuator arm in a position such that the plunger springs maintain the second position. Where the plunger springs are in the second position, the plungers may contact the first and second brakes. The first and second brakes may then subsequently engage one of the plurality of braking notches on the first and second spools.
• the example one-hand operable retractable leash apparatus may optionally include three or more retractable leashes and corresponding components.
• Another embodiment of the current disclosure is an example one-hand operable retractable leash apparatus.
• the example one-hand operable retractable leash apparatus includes a housing, a handle assembly, a spool, and a brake.
• the housing includes a posterior portion and a curved anterior portion. The anterior portion is configured to have a leash opening.
• the handle assembly further includes a lever.
• the first and second brakes, the springs, and the brake rod are adapted to attach to a braking plate; wherein the braking plate comprises a plurality of openings; wherein a stop disk plate is configured to engage a posterior of the braking plate, and wherein the stop disk plate comprises a plurality of protrusions, wherein the plurality of protrusions are adapted for insertion into the plurality of openings of the braking plate; wherein the stop disk plate comprises a plurality of holes for insertion of a plurality of plungers therethrough; wherein the plurality of plungers are engaged with a plurality of plunger springs, wherein the plurality of plunger springs are adapted to be between the stop disk plate and the braking plate; and wherein the plurality of plunger springs are in a first position when the plurality of plunger springs are not compressed and the stop disk plate and braking plate are separated by a maximum distance.
• FIG. 14 a cross-section illustration of one embodiment of the retractable leash in another stage of locking and unlocking the spooling of the leash;
• the actuator may engage. Where the actuator is optionally engaged, the brake may lock on the spool. Thus, further tension will optionally not allow unwinding of the retractable leash.
• the catch may engage the proximal end of the actuator arm in a position such that the plunger springs maintains the second position.
• the release cam may disengage the catch. Where the release cam disengages the catch, the plunger spring may return to the first position. For example, disengagement of the actuator may allow the spool to freely rotate.
• a release in tension in the retractable leash may allow the retractable leash to rewind on the spool. Where the retractable leash rewinds on the spool, tension in the retractable leash may engage the brake with one of the plurality of braking notches on the spool.
• Fig. 19 which depicts retractable leash assembly 800 during leash 802 play-out, with operating button 818 held down by a user, but wherein locking button 820 has not been engaged by the user.
• pawls 814 of brake 812 are biased into pawl clearance area 810 when operating button 818 is depressed and held down by the user, and pawls 814 are engaged against braking notches 808.
• spool 804 is placed in a resulting locked mode of operation, since spool 804 cannot rotate against pawls 814.
• retractable leash assembly 800 is depicted with operating button 918 up, in its neutral and outward-most, unengaged, unlocked position.
• retractable leash assembly 900 acts in a free spooling mode of operation.
• leash 802 is played-out under tension when an attached subject moves away from the user.
• leash 802 is retracted by rotational operation of spring-biased spool 804 as the attached subject moves toward the user.
• Fig. 24 depicts retractable leash assembly 900 allowing leash 802 roll-back, with operating button 918 in a depressed position, locking button 820 engaged, pawls 914 engaged, and spool 804 in a resulting locked mode of operation, all as described above.
• the user merely needs to hold onto handle H to maintain the locked configuration and, thereby, prevent leash 802 play-out.

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• Storing, Repeated Paying-Out, And Re-Storing Of Elongated Articles (AREA)

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  • 2014-09-24 WO PCT/US2014/057134 patent/WO2015167601A1/en active Application Filing
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