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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 04, 1991
Filed:
Mar. 02, 1990
Applicant:
Inventor:
Charles E Lucas, Tulsa, OK (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B66C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
294 8221 ; 245995 ; 246002 ;
Abstract
A gate latch mounted on a hook shank and spanning the mouth of the hook from its shank to its tip includes a sliding lock bar which can be selectively linearly positioned in closed condition retention slots to prevent opening of the gate latch or in open condition retention slots to permit rotation of the gate latch from a closed to an open condition.