Title: Portable elevated station

Abstract: A portable elevated station to be mounted on a tree, including a platform suspended from a hoist. The hoist includes a drum rotatable by handles. The hoist and platform are suspended from a bough of the tree by a rope which is connected to the tree at one end and to the drum near the other end. The drum is rotated by the operator on the platform, to wind or unwind the rope and raise or lower the platform, by the handles. The handles are at an angle of about 90 degrees to each other. There is then, in all angular and elevated positions of the drum, one or more handles available which can be pulled downwardly to wind the rope on the drum and to raise the hoist and platform. The hoist is provided with a latching mechanism including plungers which extend from the ends of the handles, each plunger having a pawl at its outer end. When a handle is rotated at a high speed as the platform drops, the pawl is projected outwardly engaging a plate extending from the frame of the hoist to stop rotation of the drum.

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Inventors: Wade, Elman E.

Application Number: 713131
Filing Date: 1976-08-10
Publication_date: 1980-06-03
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Primary Class(es): 182/142 182/187
Other Classes:
US Patent Ref:

305100	Sep, 1884	Moore	182/187.
1554323	Sep, 1925	Bauerle	242/99.
3731762	May, 1973	Sirl	182/142.
3814345	Jun, 1974	Kropelnicki	242/99.
3957135	May, 1976	Lane	182/142.

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Primary Examiner: Machado, Reinaldo P.
Assistant Examiner:
Attorney: Diamond; Hymen