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US 5,325,568 AGranted
Tie-down device combining a looped strap and a snubbing clinch
OwnerRonald Bruhminventor
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Abstract
A looped elastomeric strap is combined with a sinusoidal shaped snubbing clinch having a hook at one end to secure to an eyelet of a tarpaulin or to the free end of the looped strap. Parallel spaced bars are contiguously formed with the distal end of the hook to clinch and hold pairs of lays of the strap in non slip mode in the clinch.
Claims2
A load holding tie-down device comprising in combination;
- a looped elastomeric strap;
- a strap snubbing member of generally sinusoidal configuration;
- said snubbing member being composed of,
- firstly, a hook member having a looped strap holding connecting bar contiguous with said hook and presenting a strap entering aperture between the distal end of said hook and an end of said strap holding bar,
- secondly, a snubbing assembly secured co-terminously to said connecting bar, consisting of a pair of parallel snubbing bars spaced apart sufficiently to accomadate at least two lays of said strap fitted therebetween,
- thirdly, a connecting piece spanning and connecting the ends of said parallel snubbing bars,
- said snubbing assembly being spaced apart from and in parralel with said holding bar to provide sufficient space to accomadate one lay of said strap when looped around said loop holding bar prior to being fitted between the snubbing bars of the snubbing assembly.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.