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US 11,679,954 B2Granted
Rapid rope
AssigneeRapid-Rope LLC
InventorChristopher A. Rodgers
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Abstract
A rope dispensing system for dispensing a continuous rope from a compressed rope cartridge. The device has a canister for storage of the rope cartridge, a resealable lid with a grommet for passing the rope through the lid, and a replaceable cutting mechanism for cutting the rope. Preferably the rope cartridge is shrink-wrapped to fit within case and keep rope from unraveling.
Claims14
A handheld rope dispenser, comprising:
- a canister defining a closed bottom end, an open top end, and an interior space;
- a rope cartridge received in the interior space;
- a lid releasably engaged with the open top end of the canister, the lid comprising an aperture through which rope is dispensable from the rope cartridge;
- and
- a cutting member extending from the lid and configured to cut rope dispensed from the rope cartridge, the cutting member comprising an arm located above the aperture and above the lid, the arm extending in a side direction away from the aperture, the arm comprising a bottom facing the lid, the cutting member further comprising a blade extending from the bottom of the arm and to the lid, wherein the bottom of the arm and the lid define a slot leading to the blade
- wherein the lid defines an opening extending therethrough and a hook at the opening;
- and
- wherein the cutting member includes an edge with which the hook is engaged to retain the cutting member in the opening of the lid.
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A handheld rope dispenser, comprising:
- a canister defining a closed end, an open end, and an interior space;
- a rope cartridge receivable in the interior space;
- a lid configured to releasably engage the open end of the canister, the lid defining an opening extending therethrough and an aperture through which rope is dispensable from the rope cartridge when the rope cartridge is received in the interior space, the lid is engaged with the open end of the canister, and the rope extends through the aperture from the interior space;
- a cutting member receivable in the opening of the lid and releasably engageable with the opening of the lid by a snap-fit engagement mechanism, said cutting member including a blade having a cutting edge and a blade guard configured to prevent a user's finger from contacting the cutting edge when manually cutting rope dispensed through the aperture from the interior space;
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- a grommet receivable in the aperture, the grommet configured to prevent rope dispensed through the aperture from retracting into the interior space of the canister;
- wherein the snap-fit engagement mechanism comprises a hook at the opening of the lid and an edge on the cutting member with which the hook is releasably engageable to retain the cutting member in the opening of the lid.
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A handheld rope dispenser, comprising:
- a canister defining a closed bottom end, an open top end, and an interior space;
- a rope cartridge received in the interior space;
- a lid releasably engaged with the open top end of the canister, the lid comprising an aperture through which rope is dispensable from the rope cartridge;
- and
- a cutting member extending from the lid and configured to cut rope dispensed from the rope cartridge, the cutting member comprising an arm located above the aperture and above the lid, the arm extending in a side direction away from the aperture, the arm comprising a bottom facing the lid, the cutting member further comprising a blade extending from the bottom of the arm and to the lid, wherein the bottom of the arm and the lid define a slot leading to the blade;
- wherein the lid defines an opening extending therethrough, a stem at the opening extending downwardly, and a head protruding outwardly from the stem;
- and
- wherein the cutting member includes an edge with which the head is engaged to retain the cutting member in the opening of the lid.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.