US 7,856,699 B2Granted

Tie-down and tensioning system

AssigneeNite Ize, Inc.

InventorsJoseph Sorensen, Richard N. Case, Bowden Ormsbee

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Abstract

A tie-down and tensioning device including: a device body; an attachment member connected to the device body, the attachment member including an attachment opening; a cord block comprising a cord block hook connected to the device body, and a cord support surface disposed between the cord block hook and the device body; and a cord gripper attached to the device body, the cord gripper comprising a cord gripper hook connected to the device body, the interior surface of the cord gripper hook and the surface of the device body opposing the interior surface of the cord gripper hook defining a wedge-shaped opening, and a cord gripping surface formed on one of the interior surface of the cord gripper hook and the opposing surface of the device body.

Claims14

Dependent claims

A tie-down and tensioning system comprising a tie-down and tensioning device comprising:

a device body;
an attachment member connected to said device body, said attachment member including an attachment opening;
a cord block comprising a cord block hook connected to said device body and a cord support surface disposed between said cord block hook and said device body;
and
a cord gripper attached to said device body, said cord gripper comprising a cord gripper hook connected to said device body, an interior surface of said cord gripper hook and the surface of said device body opposing said interior surface of said cord gripper hook defining a wedge-shaped opening, and a cord gripping surface formed on one of said interior surface of said cord gripper hook and said opposing surface of said device body, wherein said attachment member opening comprises an elongated slot, said slot being substantially in a direction parallel to the direction of said cord gripping surface, and wherein the end of said slot nearest said cord block is substantially wedge shaped.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 11/799,884Filed 2 May 2007 · continuation in part
Priority: 3 Feb 2005
Published: US 2007/0209165 A113 Sep 2007
Granted: 28 Dec 2010
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification15 codes

B60P 7/0823
Securing to the vehicle floor or sides: straps; Tighteners
B63B 21/08
Fastening or guiding equipment for chains, ropes, hawsers, or the like: clamping devices
B63H 9/10
Connections of sails to masts, spars, or the like: running rigging, e.g. reefing equipment
F16G 11/046
Friction clamps deforming the cable, wire, rope or cord: by bending the cable around a surface

Family

Application11/050,274Parent of this continuation-in-part · filed 3 Feb 2005
US 2007/0209165 A1Pre-grant publication · published 13 Sep 2007
US 7,636,986 B2Parent of this continuation-in-part
US 2006/0168772 A1Published application
US 7,856,699 B2This patent

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