Gripping assembly
AssigneeRobert Malcolm Boyd
InventorsStewart Boyd, Malcolm Burston
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Abstract
A gripping assembly which may be used to enable a rider to grip onto a beast such as for buck jumping. The gripping assembly has an elongate pad [11] forming a yoke to be held on the back of a beast and a handle [16] disposed centrally thereon and which is resiliently biased to an upstanding attitude. A retaining aperture [13, 14] is provided at each end of the elongate pad [11] through which a rope tackle [50] passes to extend about the body of a beast to secure the pad [11] to the beast. An eye [17] is formed on the free end of the handle [16] to enable a tail of the rope tackle to be secured thereto whereby tension in the rope tackle pulls the handle toward the yoke. The tackle has a free tail portion which may be grasped with the handle to form a releasable connection for the rope tackle [50].
Claims9
Gripping means including:
- a yoke assembly;
- a handle upstanding from the yoke assembly;
- a mounting on the handle remote from the yoke assembly;
- releasable securing means which may be tensioned around the body of a beast to be ridden to secure the yoke assembly to the beast, the releasable securing means being connected to said mounting whereby tensioning of the releasable securing means pulls the handle towards said yoke assembly so as to clamp the inverted hand of a user grasping the handle to the yoke assembly.
Gripping means including:
- an elongate pad forming a yoke to be held on the back of a beast;
- a substantially centrally disposed handle on the yoke and resiliently biased to an upstanding attitude;
- an eye on the handle remote from the yoke;
- a retaining aperture at each end of the elongate pad through which a rope tackle passes to extend about the body of a beast to secure the yoke to the beast,
- a tail of the rope tackle being secured to said retaining aperture whereby tension in said rope tackle pulls the handle toward the yoke, and a free tail portion of the rope tackle being returned over the handle to be releasably grasped with the handle so as to release the rope tackle upon release of the handle.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.