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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:
Feb. 18, 1997
Filed:
Feb. 06, 1996
Applicant:
Inventor:
Richard B Hartman, Issaquah, WA (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
D01H / ; D07B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
57 59 ; 57 25 ; 57 26 ; 57 60 ; 57 66 ;
Abstract
Apparatus for making decorative crafts ropes including a hand-held motorized strand twisting unit and an improved method for rigging, anchoring and spreading strands. Strand twisting unit includes a frame or housing, hand grip, electrical circuit, motor, drive mechanism and twisting hooks. In the rigging process, twisting hooks are aligned and interspaced with a series of anchoring hooks on a strand anchoring unit so as to capture or snag two or more strand segments in a single motion.