H. Koch & Sons Division, Gulf & Western Manufacturing Company

H. Koch & Sons, Div. of Gulf & Western Mfg. Co.

Kenneth A Marks

John A Gaylord

A double safety manually releasable strap connector employs a male and a female member and latching devices to releasably connect the same, including a rotatable inter-connecting element in the female member. A manipulating lever is connected to the rotatable inter-connecting element for pivotal movement away from the female member. A first latch to prevent the pivotal movement of the lever for rotating the inter-connecting element being releasable by sliding the lever, and a second latch for locking the sleeve against the sliding movement. The male member is adapted to hold the riser of the canopy shrouds of a parachute and the female member is adapted to hold straps of the harness for the parachute.

Double safety manually releasable strap connector

The releasable strap connector has a female connector and male connector, the latter having one or more prongs insertable in pockets of the female connector; a rocking bar has cut-away portions intersecting said pockets to interlock with correspondingly cut-away portions of the prongs of the male member, and a manipulating yoke lever for rocking the bar into a releasing position where the bar is withdrawn from said prongs. The yoke lever has a manipulating handle which includes one or more plungers projectable from the hollow handle into suitable keepers in the frame of the female member to positively hold the yoke lever in position corresponding to the interlocking position of the locking bar and optionally also to hold the lever in position corresponding to the releasing position of the rocking bar; each plunger being urged outwardly by a spring and is retracted inwardly of the hollow handle by coacting slanted groove and pin which respond to manual rotation of a sleeve to retract the plunger and when released to permit the spring to return the plunger to a projecting locking position; the sleeve is rotatable relatively to the hollow handle, which latter is partly cut-away to expose the rotating sleeve for manipulation.

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Cherry Valley, CA, United States of America

Kenneth A Marks