# Patent

## Title
Electrical harness with molded sockets

## Abstract

Referring to FIGS. 5, 6, and 7, the safety gate and hoisting hook combination is illustrated in a second mode of operation in which a plate or sheet of material 66 is lifted using a plurality of units to grip the plate in four places. With loads such as plate material, beams or pipes, on which there are no loops for hook attachment, the hook is slipped over an edge of the material being hoisted. As best shown in FIG. 6, one of the hooks illustrated in FIG. 5 receives a relatively thick plate 66 filling essentially the entire throat opening 19 of the hook 10. As the load is lifted with lifting force being directed upwardly and inwardly on the hoisting line 60, the plate will be seated deep within the hook, contacting the body portion 14, and will be supported by the tip 12 of the hook. Because of lifting force applied to the hoisting line 60, the connecting arm 56 of the safety gate acts as a lever forcing the end segment 26 of the safety plate into firm, frictional engagement with the upper surface of the plate 66, so that the plate is gripped between the gate and the hook. The hook and gate combination will work as well with thinner materials or with a more generally vertical lift than that shown in the figures.

## Background
## Claims

privilege is claimed are defined as follows:

1. In a safety hook, the combination with: extending to a tip at a first end thereof and through a relatively straight shank segment to a hook eye at a second end thereof, said hook having an open throat between said tip and said eye; mounted through said hook eye, said gate including a connecting arm and a gate arm, each integral with and extending outwardly from said side plates in obtuse angular relation to each other; opening.]. between a first position wherein said gate arm is positioned across said throat and in contact with said tip and a second position wherein said gate arm lies in clearing relation to .Iadd.provide.Iaddend. access to said hook throat, an edge of said gate arm adjacent the hook throat when the gate is in said first position being in approximate alignment with an interior edge of said shank segment when said gate is in said second position .[...]..Iadd.;.Iaddend. line, and the curved body portion of the hoisting hook being adapted to receive a load bearing line, the relationship of the parts being such that when the safety hook is supported on a hoisting line and supports a load line and the gate is in said first position, the axis of the hook eye will lie in offset relation to a load bearing axis extending between said lines, said offset being in direction toward said hook tip; .[.and.]. position to lock it in said .Iadd.first.Iaddend. position .[...]..Iadd.; transversely therethrough but lying in the plane of the hook; and into contacting, locking relation with said latch engaging means when said gate reaches said first position, said latch including a latch actuating arm lying entirely within said gate arm when in latching position and accessible through said latch receiving cavity for manual actuation against said resilient means to move said latch into spaced relation with respect to said latch engaging means..Iaddend. .[.2. The structure of claim 1 wherein said hook eye is provided with integral latch engaging means; wherein said gate arm is provided with a latch receiving cavity extending transversely therethrough but lying in said hook plane; and wherein said latch means includes a latch resiliently urged into contacting, locking relation with said latch engaging means when said gate reaches said first position, said latch including a latch actuating arm lying entirely within said gate arm when in latching position and accessible through said latch receiving cavity for manual actuation against said resilient means to move said latch into spaced relation with respect to said latch engaging means..]. 3. The combination of claim .[.2.]..Iadd.1 .Iaddend.wherein the dimension of the gate arm measured in the plane of the hook body in .Iadd.a .Iaddend.direction transverse to the throat opening is roughly the same as the dimension of the throat opening from the hook eye to the tip; and wherein outer surfaces of the safety gate are in such smooth flowing form as to make it impossible for a hoisting line, a load line and any other rigging to hang up on the gate as the safety hook is moved between load handling and rest condition. 4. The structure of claim .[.2.]. .Iadd.1 .Iaddend.in which said latch engaging means is a shoulder formed in a widened eye portion of the hook and facing generally across and in the direction of the throat of the hook, and in which the latch is pivoted to the gate arm and includes a hook engaging corner portion adapted to contact said shoulder to latch said gate in said first position.