Gene E Grimes

US Patent:

52941620, Mar 15, 1994

Filed:

Nov 23, 1992

Appl. No.:

7/980341

Inventors:

Gene Grimes - Shaw MS

International Classification:

B66C 142

US Classification:

2941101

Abstract:

A new and improved grabber apparatus includes first and second clamping arms having clamping fingers, a pivot for the clamping arms permitting them to move back and forth from a clamping to a non-clamping orientation, a spring for biasing the clamping arms in a closed orientation, a trigger for retaining the clamping arms in an open orientation, and idler bars connected to the clamping arms. A flexible cord is connected to the idler arms. A person, such as a hunter, who is in an elevated location, such as on a platform in a tree, can lower the grabber apparatus with the flexible cord using an unwinding and winding device. When the clamping arms are above and near an object to be clamped, they are lowered so that the trigger contacts a solid object near the object to be clamped, within the range of the clamping arms in the open position. Upon contacting the solid object, such as the ground near the object to be clamped, the trigger is actuated, the clamping arms are released from their open position, and the bias spring causes the clamping arms to move to the closed position and to grab the object to be clamped.