Bobo Ladders LLC

Dura Automotive Systems, Gmbh

Orscheln Co.

Orscheln Products L.l.c.

Larry Brian Champ

Jeffrey Earl Tayon

Wayne Lawrence Soucie

Curtis H Porter

Michael Herbert Schmidt

Peter C Koenig

Michael Lee Ashton

Harold L Carlson

Martin J Wortmann

Robert J Orscheln

Steven W Marek

Theodore Richardson

A boat or recreational vehicle ladder apparatus is provided. One aspect of the present ladder apparatus includes an elongated extension handle including a slot adjacent a lower end thereof. Another aspect of a boat or recreational vehicle ladder apparatus provides a snap-on step tread which can be mounted to a dual-tubular ladder step structure. Another aspect of a boat or recreational vehicle ladder apparatus employs a laterally expandable ladder step which can be retrofit onto an existing ladder. A further aspect employs clasps or hooks to attach and retain a ladder step to generally vertical ladder rails in a tool-free and fastener-free manner.

Boat or recreational vehicle ladder apparatus

Snap-on tread for boat or recreational vehicle ladder

An adjustable pedal assembly is disclosed that comprises a stationary mounting plate, a sliding mounting plate that receives a brake pedal and a throttle pedal, and a drive mechanism for displacing the sliding mounting plate relative to the stationary mounting plate.

Adjustable pedal assembly

The disclosure relates to a spring assembly for use in a parking brake system that solves problems associated with conventional parking brake systems. The disclosed spring assembly imparts a minimum force (e.g., tensile force) onto the parking brake cable of the parking brake system when the parking brake is applied. The spring assembly comprises a sliding collar, a wire ring located about the exterior diameter of the sliding collar, a locking collar, a spring and a sleeve for receiving the aforementioned components.

Spring assembly

A two-piece expanding lock control cable end fitting for connecting a co-axial cable assembly with a support structure. The first piece is a sleeve that is attached, typically by crimping, to the conduit member. The second part is a lock clip member. The lock clip member includes a base flange, a cylindrical portion and an inclined portion. During assembly the base flange on the clip member will contact the mating part and prevent the clip member from traveling through the mating part. The mating part could be a backing plate, a frame member, or brake lever component. When the clip member stops traveling through the mating part, the sleeve continues to move through the clip member. The end of the sleeve contacts the inclined portion of the clip member causing the clip member to expand. When the sleeve it is fully seated in the clip member, a locking feature on the clip member engages the sleeve to prevent removal of the sleeve from the clip member.

Expanding lock control cable end fitting

An improved non-jamming self-adjust pawl and ratchet mechanism for use in an automotive parking brake system or the like, includes cam-out and cam-in devices that are spaced to define an overlap dwell distance to insure suitable engagement between the adjuster pawl and the adjuster ratchet as a foot or hand brake operating lever is pivoted from a brake disengaged position toward a brake fully-engaged position. In the case of the foot-operated lever, the spacing distance between the cam-out and cam-in devices is greater than the bounce-back travel distance of the lever upon the removal of cable tension load thereon.

Non-jamming self-adjust pawl and ratchet mechanism

A spring connector accumulator includes a helical compression spring, and a pair of connector body members that extend in opposite directions through the spring for maintaining the same in a predetermined preloaded partially compressed condition. The body members include first end portions adapted for connection with cable end fittings, respectively, intermediate portions that extend through the spring, and second end portions that abut opposite ends of the spring. In a first embodiment, the body members include main abutment surfaces that are snapped into abutting engagement to maintain the spring in a preloaded partially compressed condition. In a second embodiment, the spring is partially compressed to the desired preloaded condition between a pair of opposed spaced hook portions on each of the body members, respectively.

Spring connector accumulator

An improved parking brake cable control apparatus includes an automatic cable tensioning device that is operable at the beginning and end of every parking brake operating cycle to take up cable slack and maintain uniform cable tension. The foot-operated parking brake lever pivots on a main pivot shaft between brake-engaged and brake-released positions, a releasable pedal pawl being provided that cooperates with a conventional pedal ratchet. A cable-tensioning ratchet connected with the parking brake cable is rotatably mounted on the main pivot shaft, and cooperating therewith are a lock pawl and a drive pawl connected with the apparatus housing and with the lever, respectively. The lock pawl is released by a release lever when the pedal is pivoted toward the released position, and the drive pawl is disengaged when the lever is adjacent the disengaged position, thereby to activate the cable tensioning device.

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Cairo, MO, United States of America

Larry Brian Champ