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US 10,239,437 B2Granted
Load binder systems
OwnerDavid John Thompsoninventor
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Abstract
A binder includes a right angle drive including a driving gear interfacing with a driven gear. A receptacle arranged substantially at a center of a diameter of the driving gear can receive a bit of a power driver. The bit of the power driver removeably received by the receptacle arranged at the center of the driving gear can rotate a threaded gear tube relative to the first and second threaded rods to linearly displace the first and second threaded rods of the binder to tension a tensionable load bearing member and lock the binder.
Claims16
A binder for securing a load, the binder comprising:
- a worm drive including a worm screw interfacing with a worm wheel, the worm screw having:
- a length of about 2.5 inches, a pitch diameter of about 1.5 inches, and a pressure angle of about 14.5 degrees, the worm wheel having:
- an outside diameter of about 2.78 inches, a bore diameter of about 0.75 inches, a face of about 0.75 inches, a pitch diameter of about 2.5 inches, the pressure angle of about 14.5degrees, and a tooth count of about 20 teeth;
- a receptacle arranged substantially at a center of the outside diameter of the worm screw, the receptacle to receive a bit of a battery powered hand driver and configured to rotate the worm screw, the receptacle and the bit having a shape proprietary to an owner of the binder for safeguarding the binder;
- a gear tube fixed to the worm wheel, the gear tube having a threaded end;
- a threaded rod threadably coupled to the threaded end of the gear tube;
- a casing including a first portion housing the worm wheel and a second portion housing the worm screw such that the length of about 2.5 inches of the worm screw crosses the gear tube, the second portion of the casing having at least one aperture arranged in an end of the second portion of the casing;
- a cap covering the at least one aperture arranged in the end of the second portion of the casing and enclosing the worm screw housed in the second portion of the casing, the cap having an aperture through which the receptacle at the center of the worm screw is accessible to removeably receive the bit of the battery powered hand driver;
- and
- wherein rotation of the receptacle arranged at the center of the worm screw causes linear displacement of the threaded rod to tension the binder.
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A binder comprising:
- a casing including a first portion housing a worm wheel and a second portion housing a worm screw, the worm screw interfacing with the worm wheel, the worm screw having:
- an outside diameter of about 1.75 inches, a bore diameter of about 0.75 inches, a face of about 1.75 inches, a length of about 2.5 inches, a pitch diameter of about 1.5 inches, and a pressure angle of about 14.5 degrees, the worm wheel having:
- an outside diameter of about 2.78 inches, a bore diameter of about 0.75 inches, a face of about 0.75 inches, a pitch diameter of about 2.5 inches, the pressure angle of about 14.5 degrees, and a tooth count of about 20 teeth;
- a receptacle arranged at a center of the outside diameter of the worm screw and exposed in an aperture of the second portion of the casing, the receptacle to receive a bit of a battery powered hand driver and configured to rotate the worm screw, the receptacle and the bit having a shape proprietary to an owner of the binder for safeguarding the binder;
- a gear tube fixed perpendicular to the worm wheel, the gear tube having a first threaded end opposite a second threaded end and the length of about 2.5 inches of the worm screw crosses the gear tube;
- a first threaded rod threadably coupled to the first end of the gear tube and a second threaded rod threadably coupled to the second end of the gear tube;
- and
- wherein the receptacle to receive the bit of the battery powered hand driver is disposed perpendicular to the first and second threaded rods, and rotation of the receptacle by the bit of the battery powered hand driver rotates the gear tube, which linearly displaces the first and second threaded rods perpendicular to the bit of the battery powered hand driver to tension the binder.
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A binder comprising:
- a casing including:
- a first portion housing a worm wheel, the worm wheel having an outside diameter of about 2.78 inches, a bore diameter of about 0.75 inches, a face of about 0.75 inches, a pitch diameter of about 2.5 inches, a pressure angle of about 14.5 degrees, and a tooth count of about 20 teeth;
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- a second portion housing a worm screw, the worm screw interfacing with the worm wheel and having an outside diameter of about 1.75 inches, a bore diameter of about 0.75 inches, a face of about 1.75 inches, a length of about 2.5 inches, a pitch diameter of about 1.5inches, and the pressure angle of about 14.5 degrees;
- a receptacle arranged at a center of the outside diameter of the worm screw and arranged to rotate the worm screw;
- an aperture arranged in the second portion of the casing such that the receptacle arranged at the center of the outside diameter of the worm screw is accessible to receive a bit of a battery powered hand driver;
- a gear tube fixed perpendicular to the worm wheel, the gear tube having a first threaded end opposite a second threaded end and the length of about 2.5 inches of the worm screw crosses the gear tube;
- a first threaded rod threadably coupled to the first end of the gear tube and a second threaded rod threadably coupled to the second end of the gear tube;
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- wherein at least a portion of the bit of the battery powered hand driver is received by the receptacle arranged at the center of the outside diameter of the worm screw, the portion of the bit of the battery powered hand driver received by the receptacle rotates the worm screw and the gear tube to linearly displace the first and second threaded rods, and the receptacle and the bit having a shape proprietary to an owner of the binder for safeguarding the binder.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.