Wayne Richard Olson
Respiratory Therapy at Dexter St, Denver, CO

4589523, May 20, 1986

Feb 10, 1984

6/578963

Wayne L. Olson - Evergreen CO
Billy R. Hensley - Lakewood CO

Rose Manufacturing Company - Englewood CO

F16D 5900, A62B 110

182234

A fall arrester and emergency retrieval apparatus and a support tripod therefor, wherein an emergency retrieval assembly is operably associated with a clutch-brake type cable drum to enable cable dispensed from the cable drum and supporting a worker, subsequent to a fall to be selectively drawn in or extended from the assembly. The invention may comprise actuation assembly designed to hamper disengagement of the emergency retrieval assembly from the cable drum by unauthorized personnel subsequent to engagement and use of the emergency retrieval assembly. A specially adapted tripod assembly is described for anchoring the fall arrester and emergency retrieval apparatus which allows the apparatus to be mounted on a leg portion thereof or suspended from a central portion thereof, for facilitating use of the fall arrester and emergency retrieval apparatus in confined entry applications.

4618026, Oct 21, 1986

Sep 27, 1985

6/781402

Wayne L. Olson - Evergreen CO

Rose Manufacturing Company - Englewood CO

A62B 3500

182 4

Apparatus and method for applying a counteracting force which is generated by pulling superposed sections of webbing, which are secured together, through a separating means so that the separation of the secured together superposed sections generates a counteracting force. A frictional force may also be generated so as to provide an additional counteracting force.

4528729, Jul 16, 1985

Aug 26, 1983

6/527312

Terrance L. Schmidt - Littleton CO
Wayne L. Olson - Evergreen CO

Rose Manufacturing Company - Englewood CO

A44B 1300

24241P

A locking and latching snap hook, including an open hook body portion which is opened and closed to receive and discharge a to-be-connected item by movement of a normally closed, resiliently biased, latch member pivotally connected to the body. The hook body and latch member each generally carry a portion of one or more locking mechanisms which allows them to be releasably locked together to provide, along with the resilient bias latching, a locking capability to avoid inadvertent disengagement of the latch member from the hook body. The resiliently biased latch member extends beyond the body of the hook on the side opposite to the open hook end, and is capable of being selectively moved in a direction away from the hook end portion about the pivot to open the hook end portion of the body, when the locking mechanism is unlocked, and while simultaneously exerting pivoting force on the resiliently biased normally closed latch member. In some preferred embodiments a locking arrangement is provided by the provision of a locking element within the latch member which interferes with the rotation of the latching gate into an open or disengaged position.

4434536, Mar 6, 1984

Oct 13, 1982

6/433873

Terrance L. Schmidt - Littleton CO
Wayne L. Olson - Evergreen CO

Rose Manufacturing Company - Englewood CO

A44B 1302

24241PP

A positively locking snap utilizing a conventionally shaped snap hook having a normally open hook end portion which is opened and closed to receive and discharge a line or other fixture by movement of a U-shaped spring biased closure pivotally connected to the snap body at a position remote from the open hook portion, the U-shaped spring biased closure extending beyond the body of the snap hook on the side opposite to the open hook end and capable of being moved in a direction away from the hook end portion about the pivot to open the snap hook end portion when a locking member received between the snap hook body and the spring biased closure on the hook side of the snap hook body is moved from a position where it interferes with the movement of the spring closure to a position where is does not interfere with that movement, the movement of the locking member being facilitated by the provision of an exposed lateral extension of the member extending beyond the spring biased closure toward the end of the snap hook opposite from the hook end portion.

4528728, Jul 16, 1985

Aug 26, 1983

6/527297

Terrance L. Schmidt - Littleton CO
Wayne L. Olson - Evergreen CO

Rose Manufacturing Company - Englewood CO

A44B 1302

24241P

A latching and locking snap hook utilizing a conventionly shaped snap hook body having a normally open hook end portion which is opened and closed to receive and discharge a connector, line or other fixture by movement of a spring biased latch member pivotally connected to the snap hook body at a position remote from the open hook portion, the spring biased latch member extending beyond the body of the snap hook on the side opposite to the open hook end and capable of being moved in a direction away from the hook end portion about the pivot to open the snap hook end portion when a locking member received between the snap hook body and the spring biased latch is moved from a position where it interferes with the movement of the latch to a position where it does not interfere with that movement.