Handcuff restraint mechanism and method of use
OwnerPaul J. Amoinventor
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Abstract
A restraint mechanism for a set of handcuffs, the handcuffs including a pair of openable bracelet sections, each of the bracelet sections including a locking mechanism for opening and closing a bracelet section. The bracelet sections are tethered together by a linkage that includes a restraint mechanism that permits a bracelet section to be rotated about an axis extending through the linkage and the bracelet sections so as to rotate said bracelet section in a first rotational direction to a predetermined angular position, but in which the bracelet section is prevented from movement in a second reverse rotational direction once the predetermined angular position has been achieved.
Claims22
A set of handcuffs comprising:
- a pair of openable bracelet sections, each of said bracelet sections including a locking mechanism for opening and closing a said bracelet section;
- linkage means for tethering said bracelet sections together;
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- a restraint mechanism connected to said linkage means, said mechanism permitting at least one bracelet section to be angularly rotated about a linkage axis extending through said linkage means and said bracelet sections so as to rotate said bracelet section to a predetermined angular position relative thereto wherein rotation of said at least one bracelet section in a first rotational direction about said linkage axis enables said bracelet section to assume at least one annular locking position and in which said restraint mechanism includes means for preventing said bracelet section from being rotated to a previous annular Position in a second rotational direction opposite from the first rotational direction once a succeeding angular locking Position has been assumed.
A method of restraining an individual using a set of handcuffs said handcuffs having a pair of bracelet sections separated by a flexible linkage, said method including the steps of:
- cuffing an individual using said handcuffs;
- and
- rotating at least one of the bracelet sections of said handcuffs to a predetermined angular position in a first rotational direction about a linkage axis extending through said flexible linkage and each of said bracelet sections, said handcuffs further including a restraint mechanism having means for preventing said bracelet section from being rotated in an opposite second rotational direction to a previous angular position once said restraint mechanism has been engaged and said bracelet section has been rotated to at least a first predetermined angular position while permitting said bracelet to be additionally rotated in said first rotational direction.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.