Ratchet buckle with a removable operating lever
AssigneeAncra Corporation
InventorsErnest Prete, Jr., Howard Knox
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Abstract
A removable operating lever is provided for a ratchet buckle device for tightening and tensioning straps. The ratchet buckle has a bifurcated frame member with a pair of oppositely positioned parallel arms between which a reel member and ratchet wheels are rotatably mounted and employs a bifurcated handle member having a pair of oppositely positioned parallel arms rotatably mounted on the reel. The handle has a ratchet drive plate which engages the teeth of the ratchet wheels such that when the handle is actuated, the reel is rotatably driven. The buckle has a cross member on the handle member thereof which has mounting means thereon for mounting an elongated lever member which can be employed to actuate the handle member.
Claims3
In a ratchet buckle for tightening and tensioning straps having a reel and a pair of ratchet wheels fixedly connected therto, a bifurcated handle member having a pair of oppositely positioned parallel arms connected together by a cross arm, said parallel arms being rotatably mounted on the reel and a ratchet drive plate which engages the ratchet wheels such that when the handle member is actuated the wheel is rotatably driven, the improvement being means for manipulating the handle member comprising:
- a cross member extending between the arms of the handle member and connected thereto, said cross member having an aperture formed therein, and
- an elongated operating lever having one end portion thereof fitted into the aperture formed in the cross member, a main body portion greater in diameter than said aperture, a knob portion at said one end portion and a recessed portion between the knob portion and main body portion, the knob portion having a diameter approximately equal to that of said aperture and said recessed portion having a diameter less than that of said aperture, the recessed portion being opposite the edges of said aperture with the lever in its installed portion, the cross arm of the handle member having an aperture formed therein through which the main body portion of the lever is fitted.
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