Patent ID: 7934681
Filing Date: 2011-05-03
Classification: B64D,B66C

Abstract:
1. A connecting apparatus, between a hovering aircraft and a load external to said aircraft, comprising: (i) an external item, substantially shaped resembling the capital alphabet u, said external item comprising through said external item's thickness, one vertically elongated horizontal through opening, in each one of the two vertical members of said external item, wherein said openings are substantially horizontally aligned, and substantially equal in size, and oriented left to right, and further wherein said thickness of said external item refers to the dimension of said external item perpendicular to said u shape, and (ii) a substantially long vertical internal item, said internal item comprising a vertically elongated horizontal through opening, oriented left to right through the thickness of said internal item, wherein said thickness of said internal item refers to the dimension perpendicular to said internal item's front, and further wherein said internal item is insertable in the vertical gap between said external item's vertical members in a manner that said opening of said internal item can be aligned with said openings of said external item, and (iii) a load transmitting item, wherein said load transmitting item is insertable substantially horizontally through said openings of said external item and said opening of said internal item, and further wherein the shape of said load transmitting item resembles the capital alphabet h, whereby, when said load transmitting item is inserted, with said load transmitting item's vertical members in a longitudinally aligned orientation to said openings of said external item and said internal item, sequentially through one of said openings of said external item, followed through said opening of said internal item and further followed through the remaining opening of said external item, thus forming said connecting apparatus, with said load transmitting part's vertical members being external to the outside of said external item's vertical members, said load transmitting item is prevented from disassembling itself from said connecting apparatus.