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US 5,177,850 AGranted
Forcible entry tool
OwnerHarold L. Hull, Patrick N. Dowdeninventors
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Abstract
A forcible entry tool is disclosed which enables law enforcement personnel such as SWAT teams or police or other persons such as fireman to breach a heavily fortified door or the like in a matter of seconds without the use of explosives. A ram is taught which is adjustable in weight to suit the needs of an individual and which may be inter-locked with another ram of the same structure in order to "gang" them and several can be locked together, forming a heavy, multi-manned battering ram.
Claims5
A forcible entry tool comprising;
- an elongated substantially round, hollow, steel tubular member having first and second ends, said tubular member having handle means, a bulkhead, said bulkhead being welded to said first end of said tubular member, multiple independent solid weights, said weights being of a shape and size small enough to enter said hollow tubular member, means to retain said multiple weights at substantially the said first end of said tubular member, at least two pins, said pins having heads, said pins being affixed lengthwise to said second end of said tubular member on its outside perimeter, said heads of said pins extending beyond said second end, said pins being affixed substantially opposite each other, said bulkhead having at least two slots, said slots having a working relationship with said pins of a duplicate entry tool, whereby,
- When said heads of said pins are engaged in said slots and said entry tool is twisted in relation to said duplicate entry tool, said first end of said entry tool is locked to said second end of said duplicate entry tool.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.