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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 19, 2011
Filed:
Jan. 11, 2008
Christopher Kent Bentz, Wilmington, NC (US);
Garet Itz, Austin, TX (US);
Christopher Kent Bentz, Wilmington, NC (US);
Garet Itz, Austin, TX (US);
Other;
Abstract
An apparatus for preventing entanglement of lines fed from separate reels has at least two reels mounted on separate axles. A separate line is wound around each reel. Each axle is mounted on one of at least two rotatable split shaft members. Each split shaft member is connected to one of at least two non-rotating controls by means of one of at least two non-rotating brake rods, arranged such that operating one or another of said controls results in one or another of said reels being made to contact a fixed portion of the apparatus and brought to a halt or, if already halted, released and positioned so as to permit the line wound thereon to resume being fed out. The lines, each of which is separately fed out and retracted onto a respective one of the reels, are fed through holes formed in a faceplate mounted on one end of the assembled said split shaft members such that crossing of the lines tends to cause said faceplate, along with the split shaft members and the two reels, to rotate and disentangle said lines. One embodiment is a pet leash apparatus for exercising two or more pets.