Pickup device for lifting concrete body

A pickup device for lifting a body from which projects a bolt having a relatively narrow shaft embedded in and projecting from said body and a relatively wide head on said shaft spaced from said body, said device comprising:

• a shackle lying generally in a shackle plane and having a crosspiece defining a lift eye and a pivot eye;
• a pickup member pivotal on said pivot eye on said shackle about a pickup axis and having
• a generally radially extending actuation arm having an outer end angularly engageable with said crosspiece, the radial distance between said outer end and said axis being greater than the diameter of said pivot eye, and
• an angularly elongated and outwardly open pickup slot lying generally in a plane perpendicular to said axis and having a relatively wide end permitting radial passage of said head into and out of said slot and an angularly opposite relatively narrow end internally sufficiently wide to accommodate said head but externally insufficiently wide to permit radial passage of said head out of said slot, said slot being internally sufficiently wide between said ends to permit said head to pass angularly along said slot between said ends with said shaft extending out of said slot, whereby said member can pivot about said axis with said bolt engaged in said slot, and
• means for pivoting said pickup member on said pivot eye between a pickup position with said arm lying against said crosspiece and said wide end of said slot opening generally perpendicularly to said axis and said shackle plane and a holding position with said actuation arm generally perpendicular to said shackle plane and said narrow end of said slot opening generally perpendicularly to the axis in line with said shackle plane away from the crosspiece.