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Handle for manipulating lever

US4185363A · kind A · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateDec 14, 1978
Grant dateJan 29, 1980
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Expiry dateDec 14, 1998

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
  • CPC primaryY10T24/45686
  • WIPO fieldTransport
  • WIPO sectorMechanical engineering

Abstract

The releasable strap connector of the type used on parachute harness, has a female connector and a male connector; one or more prongs of the male connector are insertable in fitting pockets in the female connector; a rocking bar has cut-away portions intersecting said pockets so as to interlock with correspondingly cut-away portions of the respective prongs; a manipulating yoke lever is connected to the bar for rocking it into a releasing position where the cut-away portion of the bar is aligned with the pockets and the bar is withdrawn from the cut-away portions of the prongs thereby releasing the male member. The yoke lever has a manipulating handle including a shaft fixedly secured across the outer ends of the legs of the lever having a bore in one end thereof to contain a spring pressed plunger biased outwardly for engagement with a detent in the adjacent flange of the female body; a sleeve is rotatable on the shaft between the legs; the sleeve has a bayonet slot therethrough; a pin extended through the plunger is axially slidable in the axial portion of the bayonet slot and also in an elongated slot in the hollow portion of the shaft whereby the bayonet slot in the sleeve lock…

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