Patent ID: 6234424
Filing Date: 2001-05-22
Classification: B64D,H02G

Abstract:
A basket transportable by a helicopter arm for supporting equipment between a pair of laterally spaced-apart parallel overhead cables, comprising a main body defining a receiving cavity and being sized to be insertable between the overhead cables, carrying means adapted to be releasably and non-rotatably engaged with a helicopter arm for allowing said basket to be selectively transported to and away from the overhead cables, and a pair of hangers extending laterally outwardly from opposed side walls of said main body for resting on subjacent portions of both overhead cables once said main body has been lowered to a suspended position between the overhead cables, wherein each of said hangers consists of an extension of an associated one of said side walls of said main body, said extensions forming a pair of wing-like structures projecting downwardly at an angle from respective upper edges of said side walls.