Patent ID: 7533871

Claim:
Rope control apparatus comprising a first brake having a first pivot hole, a second pivot hole, and an attachment hole configured to be linked to an end of a rope; a second brake having a third pivot hole and a fourth pivot hole; a first sideplate rotatably affixed at a fifth hole to a first side of said first brake at the first pivot hole by means of a first bolt and rotatably affixed to a first side of said second brake at a third pivot hole by means of a first bushing; a second sideplate rotatably affixed at a sixth hole to a first side of said second brake at a fourth pivot hole and rotatably affixed to a first side of said first brake at the second pivot hole by means of a second bolt; a third sideplate rotatably affixed at the seventh hole to a second side of said second brake at a fourth hole by means of a third bolt and to a second side of said first brake at the second hole by means of said second bolt continuing on through the eighth hole of said third sideplate to terminate with a first lockwasher; a fourth sideplate rotatably affixed at a ninth hole to the second side of said first brake at the first hole by means of first bolt and rotatably affixed to a tenth hole by means of said second bolt to the second side of said second brake at the third hole; a roller disc connected by means of said first bolt through a second washer and through said ninth hole; a handle connected by means of said third bolt through a first washer to a seventh hole of said third sideplate and positioned on said fourth sideplate to cam off said roller disc; and a bushing positioned between said first and fourth sideplates connected at the eleventh hole of said fourth sideplate.